Re: AI, another data point is that the https://goblin.tools/ <https://goblin.tools/> app is like #4 in paid productivity Android apps. It uses AI to break down tasks into small steps automatically.
On Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:15 PM GMT, Joel <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > Completely support this idea. AI integration is long overdue. The human mind > is not designed to be burdened with the mundane. My Life Organized is > uniquely the best platform for it's implementation. > AI is a massive opportunity for GTD implementation improvements. > > On Friday, January 16, 2026 at 11:52:45 AM UTC-4 Daniel Clark wrote: >> The Shortwave email client is AI and is super useful. I've never been able >> to do Inbox Zero before, but now I can. It is very good at creating todo >> items and calendar events from emails, easily referencing numerous different >> email threads. Being able to interface it's TODO list with MLO's would be >> awesome. Increasingly the value of software is in its ecosystem, not it as a >> standalone thing. MCP will open MLO to be part of an entire ecosystem of AI >> tools. The AI part isn't even that important, for my use case at least it >> would just be a way to maintain sync. This can of course be done with non-AI >> code, the difference is that with AI the "glue code" can be a set of prompts >> created by a non-programmer user instead of a developer using an API. >> >> On Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:31 AM GMT, Alexander W. wrote: >>> IMHO... adding MCP to the mix would be more harmful than useful. >>> --- >>> MLO works perfectly without any cloud if you use the core stuff only. >>> Moving this to a browser is - IMHO - a very bad idea. >>> The UI for Windows PC is great and enables most sophisticated use cases and >>> scenarios. >>> My take would be as a customer who loves and lives with MLO - do not move >>> away from the core value propositions of MLO for daily handling and >>> usecases. >>> --- >>> what is possible and works fine is exporting MLO-XML and then work with AI >>> on it. That makes sense, but only for insights creation and adding the >>> widsom of AI - which is the collective knowledge of humanity - in a >>> AI-fuzzy way to the mix and use the haluzinations for creativity injection >>> ;). >>> --- >>> currently AI is not able to really "think" or execute precisely stuff - yet. >>> Thats way using it for the core features of MLO would hurt a lot ;). >>> >>> just my2cents - A. >>> >>> On Wednesday, 14 January 2026 at 18:52:59 UTC+4 Jeff Smith wrote: >>>> If you understand how AI works, you will know it is more hype than >>>> anything else. Good search engine, if you're willing to make sure you >>>> learn everything so that you spot what is not correct that it spit out. In >>>> the end, they focus on hype because it sells and they have spent WAY WAY >>>> more money than they should have (which by the way decreases value of the >>>> dollar).... >>>> I will admit it is quite impressive, the amount of programming and >>>> expensive retraining going into it so there are big results, just not as >>>> useful as the entire public is being told. Modern business is now all >>>> about cash grab before the general public finds out it wasn't going to be >>>> worth it. A decade ago and 10 decades ago they were always pushing >>>> excitement saying "just around the corner". Now that they are saying "we >>>> finally made it around the corner" here we are being told that any moment >>>> now we will have the amazing things in our own hands but I still only hear >>>> rumors that it finally exists... somewhere I have not yet seen for myself. >>>> Convince me by showing me the actual value, not merely showing some >>>> specific example that doesn't relate to what I need AI to do. Not just say >>>> "if you give us more resources it will finally be in your hands." >>>> This thread is a very example of what I'm talking about. One day GPT 3 >>>> started spitting out words that it heard intelligent people say and you >>>> said wow this AI is now intelligent. The worst thing you could have done >>>> is fall all over that Sam guy just because he said, "We don't know how it >>>> works"... This aint the movies so it never was magically intelligent now >>>> from lightning or something that would not cause that. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 5:06 AM ad-mx <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I'm pretty sure that mcp and AI integration is necessary nowaydays >>>>> because large volume of generated code also generates need for tasks the >>>>> dev has to perform around that code => having mcp in task app would be >>>>> life-saver, agent just adds them to the inbox or proper project with >>>>> right annotations at the end of its session. MCP is basically API agent >>>>> understands and it works exceptionally well. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards >>>>> AD >>>>> >>>>> środa, 22 października 2025 o 23:06:31 UTC+2 Hammy Havoc napisał(a): >>>>>> For anyone reading in future, whilst I'm very much anti-unethical AI in >>>>>> terms of training and ripping off hard-working folks with gen AI, if an >>>>>> MCP or API integration actually worked, I would be interested in seeing >>>>>> how someone runs a local LLM to organise their tasks and make sense of >>>>>> it all from an existing workspace. For this to not be counterproductive, >>>>>> it would need to be Clippy-like suggestions about moving some tasks to >>>>>> certain projects or making them sequential sub-tasks of another. But >>>>>> this would sincerely need to work well (and I don't think a next-word >>>>>> prediction model is going to cut it) or it would be as annoying and >>>>>> mostly useless as Clippy. Would love to be pleasantly surprised, but I >>>>>> don't think it'll materialize as I personally feel LLMs are a dead-end >>>>>> technology for most of the problems they're being thrown at. >>>>>> >>>>>> You could probably do it without an LLM just by using RegEx for keywords >>>>>> and looking at dates and times when tasks were created, or looking at >>>>>> the archive of tasks that are already complete, looking for patterns in >>>>>> when they're created, what order they're completed in, context etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> The API excites me quite a bit. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, 16 July 2025 at 17:30:45 UTC imajeff wrote: >>>>>>> Now, I'm in no way speaking for the MLO team. I have nothing against >>>>>>> anyone trying to make good use of modern AI, I've been studying AI >>>>>>> since the 80's and it's only that I understand the problems apparently >>>>>>> better than those who said basically we developed it but we don't know >>>>>>> how it works. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> MLO team is doing it of course. You should look for the recent >>>>>>> conversation on https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/ >>>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/> >>>>>>> where they have already responding to the question and said they are >>>>>>> working on the Web version of MyLifeOrganized, it was already announced >>>>>>> that will have a good API, but they said that will be the API to >>>>>>> support AI integration. >>>>>>> Fingers crossed, we'll see how it goes >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "It is not what I believe that will make-or-break; It is what I'm doing >>>> about it." --Jefferson Smith >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MyLifeOrganized" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4f9224a4-9dce-488d-9a2c-8a4786925915n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4f9224a4-9dce-488d-9a2c-8a4786925915n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2cec225d-31b5-4c94-b065-58abb18ac986n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2cec225d-31b5-4c94-b065-58abb18ac986n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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