Re: [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Dwight Arthur]

  
  
The old-folder/new-folder approach suggested by Wol and Stéph is
  probably best, but there's one drawback: the old tasks are now
  essentially in someday/never mode. If there's stuff in there
  that's actually current/important you will probably miss it, until
  some day when you view the hidden tasks and say, Oh, I should have
  done this one.
If you want to still see the old stuff but want it in the
  background, giving prominence to the new stuff, I would suggest
  modifying your views to have a first group of new stuff followed
  by a second group of old stuff. One way to do that, if you are not
  using flags for anything would be to create an "old stuff" flag
  then modify your views to group by flag. If you are using flags
  that wont work. Find some other field you are not using. For
  example, every task in my profile is urgency 100. I could set all
  the old ones to urgency zero and then change my view to group by
  urgency. If there's some other field you are not using (goal?
  effort? there must be one) then group by that.
Hint: to set all old tasks to some value like urgency - zero,
  make a view that shows all of your old tasks. You might want to
  use filters like created date before 3 May 2019 or something
  similar. Select all tasks in the view by selecting the first one
  then scrolling to the bottom, holding down the shift and selecting
  the last one. look at the sidebar on the right and update your
  special, eg urgency = 0.
after this you can collapse the bottom group in your view and
  work out of the top one, but from time to time you can expand the
  bottom group and see what you are missing. 

You should not have to change your views to "go back to normal" -
  just from time to time look at the old tasks - if one is still
  needed clear the special field to make it a normal task again, if
  the task is no longer needed, just delete it. When there are no
  more tasks with the special field, the bottom group will just
  disappear.

-Dwight
On 8/28/2019 8:35 AM, Wallace Gilbraith
  wrote:


  
  
  
  
That’s
pretty much how I’d approach this, too – root-level folders
of Old and New, hide Old in the Views, and gradually work
through the Old folder moving stuff into New
 
Someone
once said ‘The middle of every successful project looks like
a real mess’ – you’ll always be in the middle of it, so
don’t beat yourself up if your MLO profile isn’t perfectly
neat
Having
said that, for me the critical thing is to get the Inbox
emptied daily, and give all those new tasks a Context and a
Due Date and move them into the right place in the Outline
Now
and then I may focus on tidying up a specific folder in the
Outline, so it’s less of a mess – that might be a folder
representing an Area of Life, or a Project (particularly a
project that’s likely to repeat)
But
many of my folders are a bit of a mess, and it doesn’t
matter, because tasks surface when their Due Date comes
round, and I don’t need to think about the state of the
folders they’re in 
 
Wol

 
 
From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com

On Behalf Of Stéph
Sent: 28 August 2019 12:47
To: MyLifeOrganized 
Subject: [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with
MLO
 

  Hello Joel,
  
 
  
  
I feel your pain! I, too, generated a
  huge file with various uncompleted tasks, thoughts and
  someday-tasks in my in-box and
  completed-but-not-quite-archived projects. I also dabbled
  with Post-It notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching some
  work projects to a OneNote-and-Outlook system (shared with
  my Team). 
  
  
 
  
  
(Incidentally: The OneNote-and-Outlook
  system has several great benefits, but has not been great
  for tracking and managing a dynamic projects list - even
  if I use tags for highlighting projects and tracking their
  status. I've gone back to overall management of my work
  projects and all my non-work tasks in MLO).
  
  
 
  
  
To regain control of my tasks and
  Projects in MLO, I've created an "Old Inbox / Someday"
  folder at root level. I've set it "Hide the branch in
  To-Do" in General Properties and I've 

Re: [MLO] Re: Is MLO Cloud sync still unenctrypted?

[Dwight Arthur]

  
  
I've been following this pretty closely.
In the early days of the internet, the fear was that
  eavesdroppers would read your messages. The cure was SSL, which
  encrypts your messages as they cross the net. MLO Cloud Synch uses
  SSL, so your data is safe as it crosses the net. For what it's
  worth, I haven't heard about any type of breach involving
  eavesdropping in a decade or two
Once the data is received at MLO Cloud servers (which, the last I
  knew a couple of years ago, were running on Amazon's AWS) it's
  stored on Amazon's disk storage. It's not encrypted. There are
  three main attack vectors for data like this. 

First one is no threat at all for MLO, it is to attack whatever
  web-based interface is available to allow users to directly access
  their cloud-stored data using a browser. This is no threat because
  MLO does not allow you to access your cloud-stored data by
  browser. A lot of users have requested that MLO implement web
  access - if this ever happens the risk of data breach goes way up.
Second attack vector is to gain access to Amazon's disk storage.
  This could involve bribing an Amazon database administrator or
  hacking into any access (if there is such a thing) that Amazon
  database administrators use to access and service the database
  remotely. Two reasons not to feel threatened by this one: First,
  MLO's data is in MLO's own format which, as those recently trying
  to export their tasks have found, is no picnic. It's not
  unbreakable but it would be a lot of work for low return. Suppose
  you had your bank passwords in a task - the hacker would still
  have to figure out what person owns that task (I'm not sure MLO
  even knows). If you create a task that has your name, address,
  bank account number, date of birth and bank password all in the
  same note it might have value but I doubt many people have done
  this. Second reason not to fear this vector, lots of businesses
  keep encrypted data on AWS, there are loads of ready-to-use credit
  cards, billions of dollars of transactions flow through the
  system, if a hacker had DBA access why would they waste their time
  reading people's task lists. Unless you have written out a project
  plan to topple the government of some country or explode
  somebody's military your tasks are just not as valuable as the
  other stuff on AWS.
Third attack vector is to bribe an MLO employee, get a court
  order forcing an MLO employee to comply or hack the interface that
  MLO staff use to access and maintain their data on AWS. This is
  the vector that I believe carries the highest risk. There are not
  many MLO employees which keeps the risk lower. Let's consider two
  ways that this could be done. Method 1: The data leaves your
  computer unencrypted but shielded by SSL. It arrives at AWS, gets
  encrypted and stored. When needed, the data is retrieved,
  decrypted and delivered or processed for synch. This is the method
  used by most apps that tell you their databases are encrypted.
  This also means that the vendor holds all the encryption keys.
  This kind of encryption is effective  against the second attack
  vector, it prevents access to your data by anyone who is an Amazon
  DBA or who has hacked or bribed an Amazon DBA. But that was
  already a low risk. If the attack is coming from an MLO employee
  or someone who has hacked or bribed an MLO employee, they will
  just use MLO's copy of the encryption key to decrypt the data.
The final bit, at-rest encryption method two, is end-to-end
  encryption. This is the ultimate method of securing this kind of
  data. The data is encrypted on your computer and then sent,
  encrypted, to the server and stored without ever being decrypted.
  When a synch occurs, the synch is done with data that's still
  encrypted. (Synch would need a few fields to be not encrypted: a
  user ID, a time of last change, and a record ID. the rest could be
  encrypted.) If updated records need to be sent out to your MLO on
  other devices, it is sent there still encrypted and does not get
  decrypted until it has arrived at your other device. Nobody but
  you sees the clear data. If someone gets a warrant and brings it
  to MLO and demands them to decrypt your data, their reply is "I
  dont have the key". This is where you get real security. It's also
  very unusual, deployed only in extreme circumstances, extremely
  expensive, and possibly illegal due to the risk of violating US
  laws designed to prevent enemies of the US from having this much
  security. Also, most cases that use end-to-end encryption involve
  a single device talking with a single server and then getting the
  data back again 

Re: [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Jeff Smith]

My solution is in the GTD book, basically start over but use the old list
as a resource to remember things

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 06:35 Wallace Gilbraith  wrote:

> That’s pretty much how I’d approach this, too – root-level folders of Old
> and New, hide Old in the Views, and gradually work through the Old folder
> moving stuff into New
>
>
>
> Someone once said ‘The middle of every successful project looks like a
> real mess’ – you’ll always be in the middle of it, so don’t beat yourself
> up if your MLO profile isn’t perfectly neat
>
> Having said that, for me the critical thing is to get the Inbox emptied
> daily, and give all those new tasks a Context and a Due Date and move them
> into the right place in the Outline
>
> Now and then I may focus on tidying up a specific folder in the Outline,
> so it’s less of a mess – that might be a folder representing an Area of
> Life, or a Project (particularly a project that’s likely to repeat)
>
> But many of my folders are a bit of a mess, and it doesn’t matter, because
> tasks surface when their Due Date comes round, and I don’t need to think
> about the state of the folders they’re in
>
>
>
> Wol
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com 
> *On Behalf Of *Stéph
> *Sent:* 28 August 2019 12:47
> *To:* MyLifeOrganized 
> *Subject:* [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO
>
>
>
> Hello Joel,
>
>
>
> I feel your pain! I, too, generated a huge file with various uncompleted
> tasks, thoughts and someday-tasks in my in-box and
> completed-but-not-quite-archived projects. I also dabbled with Post-It
> notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching some work projects to a
> OneNote-and-Outlook system (shared with my Team).
>
>
>
> (Incidentally: The OneNote-and-Outlook system has several great benefits,
> but has not been great for tracking and managing a dynamic projects list -
> even if I use tags for highlighting projects and tracking their status.
> I've gone back to overall management of my work projects and all my
> non-work tasks in MLO).
>
>
>
> To regain control of my tasks and Projects in MLO, I've created an "Old
> Inbox / Someday" folder at root level. I've set it "Hide the branch in
> To-Do" in General Properties and I've customised some of my filters (eg the
> projects filter) to exclude items or projects in that branch (Advanced
> Filter: AND "TopLevelFolderName does not contain "Someday"").
>
>
>
> I then moved everything from my Inbox to the "Old Inbox", along with some
> of my potential, future projects. I've promised myself I'll go through the
> Old Inbox during one or more long journeys or when I haven't got anything
> else pressing to do, to do, delegate, defer or delete (in true GTD style)
> or re-instigate any important projects.
>
>
>
> Good luck with keeping your updated task list manageable. I think that's
> the biggest challenge that a lot of us face.
>
>
>
> Stéphane
>
>
> On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:59:35 UTC+1, Joel wrote:
>
> So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am.  Because 'reasons' I've fallen
> off the wagon keeping up my GTD system.   Have been a long-time mlo user
> (like v2 or beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system
> (for my use) but it is now stale.   When I say "fallen off the wagon" I
> mean I've been keeping it all in my head.  Now it's spilling onto post-it
> notes.  Oh fk, here we go again.
>
> So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon.  Ok,
> fine.
>
>
>
> Foundation:  There is a lot of stuff in my existing file.  Some of it may
> even still be relevant.  Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled
> or exploded.  Nonetheless, there is a lot there.
>
> Problem:  How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal
> with new current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old'
> stuff?  (at least till I can make some time and energy to start working
> through the backlog of it)
>
> I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see
> of overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out.
>
>
>
> Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this?  What strategies
> did you use?
>
> I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views
> (eventually I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for
> thoughts.
>
>
>
> All ideas welcome.
>
>
>
> I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters.
>
>
>
> Thx.
>
>
>
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Re: [MLO] Is MLO Cloud sync still unenctrypted?

[Jeff Smith]

It is still only encrypted in transit via https, MLO itself does not
encrypt anything. It won't change soon because the company doesn't tend to
fix problems people complain about even after 10 years (I've been around
since the first version).

I'd also say that because the company has such low resources to do much,
they would not be doing anything else with our data. I believe the company
is all about making a task manager that can manage life. That's typically
where security doesn't get so much attention in development

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 01:59 Joel  wrote:

> I remember at a point past there was discussion about MLO Cloud Sync and
> encryption and some portion was unencrypted.  Not sure if it was data in
> transit or maybe data at rest (on AWS ?)
> I want to know if this has been resolved.
>
> Or said another way - is MLO Cloud Sync data fully encrypted end to end?
> While at rest on the cloud servers, in transit, and any/all uses near and
> between?
> What encryption(s) are used?
>
> Thanks.
>
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[MLO] Did "custom task fields" ever happen?

[John . Smith]

Hello

I have been away from MLO for 3 years. Did anything ever come of the 
feature request for having additional Task fields that are customisable?

Thanks

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RE: [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Wallace Gilbraith]

That’s pretty much how I’d approach this, too – root-level folders of Old and 
New, hide Old in the Views, and gradually work through the Old folder moving 
stuff into New

 

Someone once said ‘The middle of every successful project looks like a real 
mess’ – you’ll always be in the middle of it, so don’t beat yourself up if your 
MLO profile isn’t perfectly neat

Having said that, for me the critical thing is to get the Inbox emptied daily, 
and give all those new tasks a Context and a Due Date and move them into the 
right place in the Outline

Now and then I may focus on tidying up a specific folder in the Outline, so 
it’s less of a mess – that might be a folder representing an Area of Life, or a 
Project (particularly a project that’s likely to repeat)

But many of my folders are a bit of a mess, and it doesn’t matter, because 
tasks surface when their Due Date comes round, and I don’t need to think about 
the state of the folders they’re in 

 

Wol 

 

 

From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com  On 
Behalf Of Stéph
Sent: 28 August 2019 12:47
To: MyLifeOrganized 
Subject: [MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

 

Hello Joel,

 

I feel your pain! I, too, generated a huge file with various uncompleted tasks, 
thoughts and someday-tasks in my in-box and completed-but-not-quite-archived 
projects. I also dabbled with Post-It notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching 
some work projects to a OneNote-and-Outlook system (shared with my Team). 

 

(Incidentally: The OneNote-and-Outlook system has several great benefits, but 
has not been great for tracking and managing a dynamic projects list - even if 
I use tags for highlighting projects and tracking their status. I've gone back 
to overall management of my work projects and all my non-work tasks in MLO).

 

To regain control of my tasks and Projects in MLO, I've created an "Old Inbox / 
Someday" folder at root level. I've set it "Hide the branch in To-Do" in 
General Properties and I've customised some of my filters (eg the projects 
filter) to exclude items or projects in that branch (Advanced Filter: AND 
"TopLevelFolderName does not contain "Someday""). 

 

I then moved everything from my Inbox to the "Old Inbox", along with some of my 
potential, future projects. I've promised myself I'll go through the Old Inbox 
during one or more long journeys or when I haven't got anything else pressing 
to do, to do, delegate, defer or delete (in true GTD style) or re-instigate any 
important projects.

 

Good luck with keeping your updated task list manageable. I think that's the 
biggest challenge that a lot of us face.

 

Stéphane


On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:59:35 UTC+1, Joel wrote:

So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am.  Because 'reasons' I've fallen off the 
wagon keeping up my GTD system.   Have been a long-time mlo user (like v2 or 
beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system (for my use) but 
it is now stale.   When I say "fallen off the wagon" I mean I've been keeping 
it all in my head.  Now it's spilling onto post-it notes.  Oh fk, here we go 
again.

So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon.  Ok, fine.

 

Foundation:  There is a lot of stuff in my existing file.  Some of it may even 
still be relevant.  Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled or 
exploded.  Nonetheless, there is a lot there.

Problem:  How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal with new 
current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old' stuff?  (at least 
till I can make some time and energy to start working through the backlog of 
it)  

I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see of 
overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out.

 

Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this?  What strategies did 
you use?

I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views (eventually 
I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for thoughts.

 

All ideas welcome.

 

I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters.

 

Thx.

 

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[MLO] Re: How do I export my data from MLO Android?

[David]

Thanks for the ideas, everyone. Unfortunately, I haven't found a solution 
yet. I do like MLO, but I don't like the idea of not being able to export 
all the data I've entered into it. That's actually a deal breaker for me. 
This will be a good opportunity to go through everything while entering it 
into another, more flexible solution. Thanks again and best to all.

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[MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Susannah]

I'm kind of in the same boat.  I started yesterday making sure everything 
is captured.  I got my email inboxes to zero (b/c they have been creeping 
up) with all the tasks that were in them as email as tasks in MLO now.  I 
have my 100 post its that have accumulated back in MLO and am down to just 
today's postits.  I still like working with my postits.  Number 1 problem 
was MLO is my main system and was not complete so I couldn't trust it.

Last time I got in this state I reorganized my MLO tree. I have as top 
level folders: Procedures to Copy (for irregular routines), 
Followup/Waiting, Routines, One time, Skills/Practice, Reference, Someday 
Maybe (this is more like probably not ever but didn't want to lose my 
outline of tasks just in case).  Here is the change I made in The One time 
folder I have each area broke down under Personal and Work.  Under each 
area I have Active Tasks which include anything I am working on now and 
anything with a date attached.  Then I have a Prioritized folder where I 
put everything else for that area that I am not currently working on but 
needs to be done at some point.  One day I will actually prioritize these 
lists so it feeds the next priority as I finish the active tasks.  Until 
then I will have to manually select and move during my Review.  Eventually 
I would like to move my someday maybe under the area it affects also 
instead of it being one big bucket.  

So yesterday I went through and moved as many things as I could out of 
active and into these Prioritized folders which don't show up on my active 
lists.  Or in a couple areas where I have no active tasks they are shown to 
complete in order so the top task is active.

I am not good about doing reviews and I think that is a major issue with my 
system getting out of date.  My new thinking is I have to get my active 
tasks to a smaller number so that reviews are not so time consuming.  
Awhile back I added routines built in that take care of some of the review 
tasks on a daily or weekly basis.  For example at the beginning and end of 
my day I clear off or set up my desk, take inboxes to zero etc.  The review 
I am talking about adding is only to choose next weeks active tasks.

For backlogs which I have several right now.  They aren't hot projects but 
I want to clean them up.  I put a reoccuring tasks in to deal with it.  If 
I have several I put them on different days or I make one dependent on the 
other finishing.  For example I have a folder from an intern that helped a 
few weeks back that I need to go through and figure out what was done and 
what still needs to be done and basically clear out the folder.  I have a 
task that reoccurs daily that says clean out that folder 5 minutes at a 
time.  When it is gone I will delete the task.  As for cleaning up MLO that 
is my only active project under my system heading.  Yesterday's task was to 
capture everything.  I did it as one task but if I didn't do it that way I 
would have made it a daily reoccuring timed task until it was done.  My 
system has tasks, projects and routines just like my work and personal life 
do.

I'm looking forward to others responses b/c I still have too many active 
tasks.  I want to get them down to where I can actually start using the 
app.  Right now it is not helpful at all.
Susannah


On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 3:59:35 AM UTC-4, Joel wrote:
>
> So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am.  Because 'reasons' I've fallen 
> off the wagon keeping up my GTD system.   Have been a long-time mlo user 
> (like v2 or beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system 
> (for my use) but it is now stale.   When I say "fallen off the wagon" I 
> mean I've been keeping it all in my head.  Now it's spilling onto post-it 
> notes.  Oh fk, here we go again.
> So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon.  Ok, 
> fine.
>
> Foundation:  There is a lot of stuff in my existing file.  Some of it may 
> even still be relevant.  Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled 
> or exploded.  Nonetheless, there is a lot there.
> Problem:  How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal 
> with new current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old' 
> stuff?  (at least till I can make some time and energy to start working 
> through the backlog of it)  
> I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see 
> of overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out.
>
> Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this?  What strategies 
> did you use?
> I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views 
> (eventually I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for 
> thoughts.
>
> All ideas welcome.
>
> I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters.
>
> Thx.
>
>

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[MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Stéph]

Hello Joel,

I feel your pain! I, too, generated a huge file with various uncompleted 
tasks, thoughts and someday-tasks in my in-box and 
completed-but-not-quite-archived projects. I also dabbled with Post-It 
notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching some work projects to a 
OneNote-and-Outlook system (shared with my Team). 

(Incidentally: The OneNote-and-Outlook system has several great benefits, 
but has not been great for tracking and managing a dynamic projects list - 
even if I use tags for highlighting projects and tracking their status. 
I've gone back to overall management of my work projects and all my 
non-work tasks in MLO).

To regain control of my tasks and Projects in MLO, I've created an "Old 
Inbox / Someday" folder at root level. I've set it "Hide the branch in 
To-Do" in General Properties and I've customised some of my filters (eg the 
projects filter) to exclude items or projects in that branch (Advanced 
Filter: AND "TopLevelFolderName does not contain "Someday""). 

I then moved everything from my Inbox to the "Old Inbox", along with some 
of my potential, future projects. I've promised myself I'll go through the 
Old Inbox during one or more long journeys or when I haven't got anything 
else pressing to do, to do, delegate, defer or delete (in true GTD style) 
or re-instigate any important projects.

Good luck with keeping your updated task list manageable. I think that's 
the biggest challenge that a lot of us face.

Stéphane


On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:59:35 UTC+1, Joel wrote:
>
> So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am.  Because 'reasons' I've fallen 
> off the wagon keeping up my GTD system.   Have been a long-time mlo user 
> (like v2 or beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system 
> (for my use) but it is now stale.   When I say "fallen off the wagon" I 
> mean I've been keeping it all in my head.  Now it's spilling onto post-it 
> notes.  Oh fk, here we go again.
> So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon.  Ok, 
> fine.
>
> Foundation:  There is a lot of stuff in my existing file.  Some of it may 
> even still be relevant.  Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled 
> or exploded.  Nonetheless, there is a lot there.
> Problem:  How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal 
> with new current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old' 
> stuff?  (at least till I can make some time and energy to start working 
> through the backlog of it)  
> I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see 
> of overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out.
>
> Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this?  What strategies 
> did you use?
> I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views 
> (eventually I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for 
> thoughts.
>
> All ideas welcome.
>
> I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters.
>
> Thx.
>
>

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[MLO] Re: Is MLO Cloud sync still unenctrypted?

[Jon Lastname]

Great question. And aside from bland assurances, which is what most 
software companies offer, how would we know?

If I can add a related question: Even if the information is encrypted, does 
MLO use it for any purpose besides the service itself?


On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 3:59:35 AM UTC-4, Joel wrote:
>
> I remember at a point past there was discussion about MLO Cloud Sync and 
> encryption and some portion was unencrypted.  Not sure if it was data in 
> transit or maybe data at rest (on AWS ?)
> I want to know if this has been resolved.
>
> Or said another way - is MLO Cloud Sync data fully encrypted end to end?  
> While at rest on the cloud servers, in transit, and any/all uses near and 
> between?
> What encryption(s) are used?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

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[MLO] Is MLO Cloud sync still unenctrypted?

[Joel]

I remember at a point past there was discussion about MLO Cloud Sync and 
encryption and some portion was unencrypted.  Not sure if it was data in 
transit or maybe data at rest (on AWS ?)
I want to know if this has been resolved.

Or said another way - is MLO Cloud Sync data fully encrypted end to end?  
While at rest on the cloud servers, in transit, and any/all uses near and 
between?
What encryption(s) are used?

Thanks.


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[MLO] Strategies for re-starting with MLO

[Joel]

So I think I'm not alone but maybe I am.  Because 'reasons' I've fallen off 
the wagon keeping up my GTD system.   Have been a long-time mlo user (like 
v2 or beginning of v3 I think) and have a fairly well formed system (for my 
use) but it is now stale.   When I say "fallen off the wagon" I mean I've 
been keeping it all in my head.  Now it's spilling onto post-it notes.  Oh 
fk, here we go again.
So it's clearly time to bootstrap myself and get back ON the wagon.  Ok, 
fine.

Foundation:  There is a lot of stuff in my existing file.  Some of it may 
even still be relevant.  Plenty I'm sure has passed, happened, been handled 
or exploded.  Nonetheless, there is a lot there.
Problem:  How do I get started using my file again ensuring I see/deal with 
new current items and not get flooded by the clutter of the 'old' stuff?  
(at least till I can make some time and energy to start working through the 
backlog of it)  
I've started adding some items in and they are just washed out in the see 
of overdue/older, higher prio, etc items that my views are fleshing out.

Any others have dealt with a start/stop event like this?  What strategies 
did you use?
I don't necessarily want to have to modify every one of my views 
(eventually I'll need them back to "normal", right?) so looking for 
thoughts.

All ideas welcome.

I'm on Windows and Android if that that helps/matters.

Thx.

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