If you used MLO to manage a team online, I imagine it’d turn into
micromanaging.
On Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 11:13:03 AM UTC-7 imajeff wrote:
> Wow KC I don't think that assumption is worth 2 cents to anyone actually
> trying to manage team projects if they were properly trained to use
>
I’m on the beta, and the latest update for us addressed the issues I had on it
with my Apple Watch 4, which sound similar to yours.
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I used to a long time ago, but I don’t recommend it. MLO’s great for storing
many a thing, but it becomes less effective the more you clutter it up with. I
keep a complex and dynamic Wiki of things between various apps like Trunk Notes
and Notebooks on iOS, both of which are amazing. I use both
Hi there!
I’ve used many approaches over the years. The one I used the most was the
‘Active Starred’ view, which acted as a ‘today’ view. Now that MLO has the
Forecast view on iOS, however, I have over time come to use that, which is more
intuitive and efficient for me.
In the latter view, I
There have been various forms of moderation for a long time around here. If
you’re worried about them potentially censoring people saying bad things, I
wouldn’t. You can read through and find complaints about MLO around here, some
of which I’ve replied to in the past. This is a productivity
I recommend diving in. MLO is flexible enough that you can reorganize things as
needed without much issue. I’ve regularly made large plans and outlines and
structures that I scrapped with a click by dumping it into another folder set
to be hidden.
Nothing you read about MLO will make as much
As another quick note, you don’t have to always copy and move things after
writing them down. I guess it depends on your typing speed, but plenty of times
I’ll have something in the inbox and rather than moving it, I’ll just make
another task where I want it and delete the original when I get a
Hi John,
Those are my basic root folders. Sometimes I’ve had variations where I’d put
some of that in a personal folder, or if there’s a big thing going on like
building renovations I might make a temporary folder for that, but that’s the
gist. BS is by far the biggest folder. My Finance
My D and S contexts take care of the energy aspect. Deep, creative work always
requires energy, and my success there would determine whether I felt energized
or not. Shallow work usually adds energy because I’m accomplishing things and
building up moment with relatively little effort.
It’s
What contexts are you using? If they’re too personal to publicly state, you can
use a standin name to mention it here, like ‘Wife’ or ‘Dog’ or something.
In my experience, fewer contexts work better, and adding more to the mix only
serves as a way for me to avoid thinking through my commitments
I think the petulant negativity more than anything else is what I dislike. I’m
self-employed, so I’m probably more aware of the value of a relationship, what
goes into it, and that customers/clients can be both valuable or a hostile
dependent according to the circumstances. It’s a business
The original language of GTD is loose enough that ‘context’ is just a
distinction you make between different types of tasks to make your lists
smaller and easier so you don’t feel overwhelmed, and to put similar things in
the same space so you can do one after another if they have similar
Hi John,
Seeing as you replied to me, apparently you do not think that. I did read what
you wrote, and have read what you’ve written for going on 4 or more years now.
The issue for anyone following along seems to be that we do understand your
position, but we’re not sure you do. This does not
Hi John,
I’m still not seeing where I’ve attacked you. If you take someone asking you if
you’ve tried looking at the way you’re using the program as a personal attack
worthy of multiple punctuation marks in reply, then maybe public discourse is
not for you. I will, however, concede that you
Hi John,
I made no personal attack on you, I was addressing the issues you brought forth
to the best of your ability to articulate them over what’s now been around a 4
year period. Namely, you saying that it was not possible to use MLO for GTD,
and your repeated claims about its inability to
It’s kinda hard to fix a problem that’s user generated. You’re making
distinctions that don’t actually exist in GTD. GTD as written is using a series
of flat lists that are concrete and distinct when it comes to task management.
You group them in whatever way makes it easiest for you to work
I still think you’re fiddling around with things and unsatisfied because you’re
unconsciously avoiding doing your work, which I think everyone can relate to.
GTD was developed for analog systems to work as a series of flat lists that you
regularly review and update. To call anything with a text
I posted this to Andrey in the beta forum, but apps like OmniFocus charge a lot
of money and use a good portion of that to market themselves. OmniFocus did and
does sponsor a very wide variety of tech related things. There’s a lot of
trickle down into people aspiring to be like those they
If you've selected a task in another view, then select 'outline' as a view,
it should jump you right there to the task in your outline.
On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:04:20 AM UTC-7, Tom wrote:
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> Is there any way to do this on the iPhone?
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You could easily make a view that shows 'All' things with 'Don't show in Todo'.
It'd take 20 seconds if you were being slow.
I tend to look at contexts on my next action by context list. It shows all next
actions grouped by context. Pretty sure that's the name of it, but it's a
default view.
or important I slide it
up. The biggest bang for the buck on that is having those assigned higher
up in the hierarchy, at least for me, which doesn't change often.
On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 10:19:53 AM UTC-7, SRhyse wrote:
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> I'll see if I can get around to replying to your post some
I'll see if I can get around to replying to your post some other time, but as a
short version:
If you hit 'hide in todo' on any task or project, it'll instantly not show in
those todo views. If you wanted to make a view called 'Someday Maybe' from
there that showed all those tasks with that
are sequential, however.
Let me know if that makes sense.
On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 5:03:02 AM UTC-7, John . Smith wrote:
> Hi SRhyse
>
>
> > If you're really needing to 'change' that attribute of a
> > task that often, I'm not sure you're doing it right
> No, that
I've got 10k+ tasks in MLO and I've never really run into any issues. I've had
more in there and I've had less, and it's worked the entire time no matter how
many times I got futzy and reorganized things with varying benefits of utility
when I was in a mood to avoid doing my work.
Based on
I recommend putting them in whichever location is the first to pop up on
the platform you're using for MLO. New being at the top also lets you
preview that bit when viewing the task, making the most relevant portion in
the most relevant location.
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 10:08:09 AM
Wonderful post. The actual thinking process and hard decision making aspect of
GTD does deserve special emphasis, as that's what makes it work. You can do
that with any app that can hold the results of that thinking and make it easy
to find it or present it to you when you've decided you would
I'd thoroughly enjoy being able to create custom task attributes, particulary
if MLO could do things like add up the numerical ones on the fly, but saying
GTD is unusable in MLO is more than a bit of a stretch on any platform it's
presently available on. At base, all you'd need for GTD are
It integrates in a Forecast view on iOS at present. When there's an update
to the Windows version, I'm sure that's going to be considered since it's
on the other platforms. I think the priority of this is currently lower
because on a PC, you can have MLO open on one side and a Calendar on the
hit f3. This creates a new window with a snapshot
>> of your view. Go back to the main window and bring up the other view. You
>> can tile the two windows next to each other. The snapshot view has limited
>> functionality but you can drag tasks back and forth without needing a
>
Hi Emilio!
I'm not sure there's any way to assign specific dates to tasks or groups of
tasks other than to select them and then pick them from the calendar/date wheel
depending on what platform you're using MLO on. For reference, however, how
often are you accurate when it comes to things
In addition to what Dwight said regarding using the 'Task by Email' feature
being valuable to use, on the Windows app, you can set up a hot key to have
an input box float above whatever apps you're using to put things in,
either en mass to be parsed into a hierarchy, or individually with the
I'd certainly enjoy some of these features as well, but as a beta tester, I can
tell you the apps themselves that comprise the MLO family certainly aren't
dying or languishing in any capacity. On the iOS front, I honestly think the
biggest holdup for new releases to users has largely been from
, March 11, 2015 at 4:09:16 PM UTC-7, SRhyse wrote:
I actually just got done reading this one today!
You'd be hard pressed to find many who would disagree that most of the
things we do aren't massively impactful, but the author massively
underplays the actual difficulty of know which things
I actually just got done reading this one today!
You'd be hard pressed to find many who would disagree that most of the things
we do aren't massively impactful, but the author massively underplays the
actual difficulty of know which things are going to be better to do than others
in the
Omnifocus isn't a bad app, but it's very rigidly locked into one way of viewing
and handling things that in my experience doesn't fully allow it to rise beyond
the level of slightly nifty list manager. It's very well integrated and
extended inside of OS X, but the number of people that take
I've wanted similar functionality in MLO before as well, acting similar to
folders, only perhaps with a different icon or simply the removal of the
checkbox from a task. That would work well with the outline view of MLO to me.
I also agree similar 'functionality' can be enabled by using, say,
Not presently, but attribute parsing for the tasks-via-email feature is planned!
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Presently, it's not the same. But iOS development has recently been amped up,
and the iPhone client is the first to see a refresh. Presenting an outline view
more akin to those found on the other clients topped the list even before the
super-team was put together, so I think you'll be happy
To my knowledge, on the iPhone and iPad versions of MLO, there's no
integration with Google Calendar or Google Tasks, if that's what you're
referring to. You can do that on the Android version? That's pretty nifty!
On Friday, January 25, 2013 7:05:58 PM UTC-8, Debbie Hopper wrote:
How can I
of possible parents in the Task Details,
nor does it in the Bookmarks view.
I tried this with non-project and project tasks, but to no avail.
Are there any special requirements on when a task can be bookmarked, or
did I do it wrong?
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2013 01:53:28 UTC+1 schrieb SRhyse:
I
I think there's been a misunderstanding based on the iPhone menus. An item
only needs to be a child of the 'Inbox' folder to be considered in the
inbox. To move the icon, from it's menu, you can select a different
bookmarked task or existing project. But, you can also from any list hit
the
Total number of OS installs or purchases, even device installs and purchases,
isn't the best metric to measure market viability with in regards to MLO. As
stated I believe elsewhere, many Windows installs are on closed networks that
end users aren't in a position to have their own personal
I'd like this too. +1!
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Same here. I'm on the betas, and things go well there, but I feel like they're
doing themselves an injustice in not bolstering their development resources.
Active development itself can sell apps in the current marketplace. Developing
multiple clients in a cross platform ecosystem isn't easy
Though I always love paying less, that's actually just the standard for apps of
this caliber in the App Store, of which MLO is actually on the lower end
price-wise. OmniFocus used to run much more for the Desktop, iPhone and iPad
Apps (~$80, $20 and $40 respectively, until the iPad app was
The help file actually is pretty good and thorough. The best way to learn is to
read up a tad, intermixed with playing with the application.
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I've played around quite a bit in both directions.
(Keep in mind, for my current workflow, I'm mostly iOS based now. I still love
the Windows app, but I'm on the go more and more, and have taken to doing
everything I can on my iPhone and iPad)
Some of my tasks involve alot of large scale
I've currently got most all of my reference information in applications
like Evernote, Dropbox, and things that interface with them. Over time,
however, Evernote's slowed down and become too buggy for me to use at the
moment on the iOS applications, and many of the non file things I use
I'm not sure how many people are working on all these apps, though my
current understanding is that it's not very many besides Andrey.
Whether or not you're for continued development on either the desktop
or mobile fronts, the pace of development is likely so slow all around
because the
Though I'd kill for a calendar function in this thing as well, it
sounds like whatever structure you're trying to put your tasks into in
the outline is detrimentally complex for the volume you're inputting,
as well as the way you work. The RTE and parsing mentioned can
certainly speed that up, as
I cope with it by not being concerned.
If someone has gotten access to my computer in general, then I've got
bigger problems than a specific program detailing how I plan to walk
to dog and type up a storm.
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Are you concerned
I had a similar problem, and after contacting the program author,
reset the activation key you get when you buy the program and it fixed
it right up.
He also said that if you're using a pirated version, that's a common
problem in those copies. So if you're using a pirated version to test
the
If you can't currently do this then consider it a suggestion-
I really like the rapid task entry dialog box, and the ability to have
things like context and due date parsed out of it even more so. I like
being able to enter in more than one task in at once, but sometimes I
need to add notes to
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