Re: [MLO] How can I put my custom views under their own parent in the Views panel?

2024-05-26 Thread Dwight Arthur
says "yes, allow drag & drop for some time". click on the button you are done, the view is moved. if you move another one soon you will not get another popup. you can use this same procedure to re-order the views within a group or to move a group within th

Re: [MLO] Re: Hours context is not working as I would expect/hope

2024-05-05 Thread Dwight Arthur
will always be open and if you want it to be morning you could specify "calls always closed" and "morning" both of these workarounds are messy and no recommended for long term work -Dwight On 5/5/2024 6:51 AM, Grant wrote: I h

Re: [MLO] Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Recurrence -> Advanced Options -> Advanced Recurring -> Reset flag

2024-03-29 Thread Dwight Arthur
. -Dwight On 3/22/2024 4:16 PM, imajeff wrote: I've not heard of them making a decision to change anything which already works a certain way. That's why people said MLO 6 was not really different than 5. Maybe time for a branch--if a different

Re: [MLO] MLO won't open my file, says I need access permission

2024-03-23 Thread Dwight Arthur
and restore the most recent backup of your *.ml file. If you cannot open that, find and restore the immediately prior backup/ -Dwight On 3/23/2024 7:10 AM, westpointusma via MyLifeOrganized wrote: Hi. I’m an expert user of MLO, but not an expert at the system files of it. I’ll tell you what I’d do

Re: [MLO] Saving custom sort of general tasks view

2024-03-17 Thread Dwight Arthur
y" or whatever you like. This view will show your active tasks in order of importance. But if you really want to do the work by manually rearranging your tasks, go back to the "sorting" window, set all of the task boxes to "none" and turn

Re: [MLO] Repeating task every two years?

2024-03-06 Thread Dwight Arthur
easy. set it to repeat every 24 months. -Dwight On 3/6/2024 7:25 AM, Grant wrote: How would I create a task that repeats every other year? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [MLO] Adding repetive task to multi projects

2024-02-19 Thread Dwight Arthur
Try this https://blog.mylifeorganized.net/2023/03/new-in-mlo-6-windows-new-task-from.html On 2/18/2024 9:48 PM, Kenneth Dold wrote: I build websites and have an order of tasks that I like to follow in dealing with the customer, develop, and design of the website. I would like to be able to

Re: [MLO] Task Regeneration without a Start/Due Date

2024-02-11 Thread Dwight Arthur
y. Two weeks from today it will become active and will appear in your lists of active tasks. -Dwight On 2/10/2024 12:34 PM, Andrew wrote: Is it possible for task to regenerate after I complete them WITHOUT them having a star

Re: [MLO] An Eureka moment and idea - The True MLO Tool!

2024-02-10 Thread Dwight Arthur
management tool is what I need. More powerful is not always better. Managing tasks with a project manager sometimes felt to me like trying to spread jam on my toast using a chain saw. -Dwight On 2/10/2024 2:32 PM, Patricio Carranza wrote: Hi MLO

Re: [MLO] Getting checked items to disappear; ordering

2024-02-04 Thread Dwight
Sorry, but could you please clarify if this is about MLO on Windows versus mobile wrote: >I feel like I'm missing something obvious but how do I make checked items >disappear in the android widget (Inbox view)? Also can I make new items go >on top instead of the bottom (eg reverse chronological

Re: [MLO] How to create a clever shoppinglist for Android?

2024-01-27 Thread Dwight
Hello, un-named person who is probably from Sweden. Could you provide a name? It doesn't have to be your real name, just something we can call you by. My shopping list is a great application for MLO, there are many features that make it easy. I understand that you want to add items easily to

Re: [MLO] Strike through completed recurring tasks?

2024-01-25 Thread Dwight Arthur
rt and due schedule, not completed, no strikethrough. I hope that this is what you want. -Dwight On 1/25/2024 1:21 PM, Pat K. wrote: If I mark a task as completed (a task that is NOT in the ToDo list) MLO will put a line through it to show it's been

Re: [MLO] feature request: one-time-delay for recurring actions

2023-12-11 Thread Dwight
In my opinion, the suggestion from Steven Jones is exactly correct. The only thing I would add, is that the "delete this task" item should be set up so that it sorts to the top of the daily to-do list on the day that it becomes active. That way you can get it out of the way early, and the

Re: [MLO] Re: Shortcut key for showing and not showing hierarchy?

2023-11-11 Thread Dwight
You certainly seem to be headed in the correct direction. It was something to try: in one of your task lists, try double clicking on a task. It should probably bring you to your all tasks view, what you are calling hierarchy workspace, with the task that you clicked on selected and highlighted

[MLO] context hours

2023-10-22 Thread Dwight Arthur
I have recently re-thought how I am using my time, which resulted in some extensive changes to the open hours schedule for some of my contexts. Some contexts have complex hours. There are several groups of contexts that all have the same hours. When I make a

Re: [MLO] Help with Setting up Recurrence Relation

2023-10-06 Thread Dwight Arthur
on Thursday. I think this will give you just what you want. Any questions, write back. -Dwight On 10/1/2023 10:14 AM, Muhammed Hussain (MMSH24) wrote: Hi I have homework that is set every week on Tueday and due the following week on Th

Re: [MLO] Re: Cloud sync limits

2023-08-06 Thread Dwight
Steve, are you saying that you share your task lists with your clients? If so then I totally get the need for segmentation, and I would say that your 30-file limit on MLO is a very appropriate deal for you, -Dwîght On August 6, 2023 3:39:28 AM EDT, Steven Barnett wrote: >I don’t charge my

Re: [MLO] Re: Cloud sync limits

2023-08-05 Thread Dwight
Steve, I am with Jeff in not yet understanding the issue. You could keep each of your projects separate, with it's own beginning, tasks, and end, storing all of these projects (simple to scary complex) in a single MLO database. You could zoom in to each project when you're working on it, and

Re: [MLO] I'm looking for the Mail to Task Ability.

2023-07-26 Thread Dwight
Hi, Nikolaus, Task By Email (TBE) works by dropping the tasks it receives from your email into your cloud sync file. The next time you sync the tasks show up in your task list. Consequently, the first step in utilizing TBE is to subscribe to Mlo cloud. Once you have accomplished that, here are

Re: [MLO] Duplicate Task for all Contexts?

2023-07-23 Thread Dwight
Hi, gary. I have a suggestion which might save a little bit of work. Not a big improvement but probably a little better. Make a folder for each one of your clients, and make sure that the folder has that client's context. Then when you have a new task that you need to do for multiple clients,

Re: [MLO] Linking to MLO from other applications: what is possible?

2023-07-23 Thread Dwight
Hi, Grant. I use analog together with Evernote, mostly as a way of storing pictures that can be seen from either windows or my phone. I'm putting the picture into evernote and then putting the Evernote external link into the task. I have not had any call for linking them in the other direction

Re: [MLO] Re: Redefining dates?

2023-02-19 Thread Dwight Arthur
one I mark yesterday's daily project complete and all the subtasks regenerate as new, uncompleted tasks. This all works without a hitch for me except for holidays. -Dwight On 2/19/2023 4:29 PM, Stéph wrote: Sounds like you work in a diff

Re: [MLO] [REQUEST] Possibility to show pictures directly in the preview section and store it within MLO

2023-02-16 Thread Dwight
How about if you could drop your picture into Dropbox and then paste a line of html into the task that displays the picture in your task? On February 16, 2023 8:08:30 AM EST, Dominique Froidevaux wrote: >For me the MLO is also a knowledge database. Therefore it would be very >welcoming to add

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO 6 no more then a 5.X

2023-01-04 Thread Dwight
there. Features that bring in new sales are critical. I don't know but I could see dashboards bringing in some new customers. -Dwight On January 3, 2023 11:03:10 PM EST, Joel wrote: >I actually feel the same way. I wanted to support the team due to the >situation in Ukraine but at the sam

Re: [MLO] How to create a Project view w/o checking every task

2022-12-12 Thread Dwight Arthur
thing else in that popup That should do it. What this says is that you want to see all the subtasks in each of your projects but you do not need to see the parents, if any, of each project. -Dwight   Starting with the All Tasks view, On 12/12/2022 4:15

Re: [MLO] Context autofill on created views

2022-11-27 Thread Dwight
If your tasks are in a folder and the folder has a context and you have "inherit context" on, then any task you create will inherit the context of the folder. Not certain but maybe if your view has group-by-context and you create a task within one of the groups, mAybe the new task will inherit

Re: [MLO] Re: How does MLO Sync really work?

2022-11-27 Thread Dwight
you get home, your home computer is already updated. -Dwight On October 24, 2022 6:06:21 PM EDT, imajeff wrote: >- I assume that Dan is only talking about the cloud sync which is an extra >subscription. I did a trial and never had to manually sync but I couldn't >tell how often or if

Re: [MLO] Re: Checklists

2022-11-22 Thread Dwight Arthur
functionality Sam described, and it had to be implemented in MLO, I would use a list of subtasks. If MLO were to implement the functionality described by Mario, I would be a user. -Dwight On 11/22/2022 9:57 AM, Mario Seixas Sales wrote

Re: [MLO] How to make a list for something you have to repeat a lot?

2022-11-13 Thread Dwight Arthur
like "little" or "normal" so it didnt work -Dwight On 11/13/2022 2:38 PM, westpointusma via MyLifeOrganized wrote: Good question,  first I’ll do some grandstanding (is that the right word?) and show how your

Re: [MLO] What reason for only ONE text tag?

2022-10-23 Thread Dwight Arthur
Folders could not substitute for tags because a task can only be in one folder, tags tend to come in flocks. Flags could substitute but there is a downside. Tags can be very ad hoc, arising in response to a transitory issue that soon fades. Whenever a new tag is

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Recurrence to work for tasks without a Due Date

2022-10-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
ecklist for leaving on vacation automatically regenerated, without due dates. On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 8:10:54 PM UTC-4 TL wrote: Hi Dwight,  So I recently came back to MLO after leavi

Re: [MLO] Computed Score sort for sub tasks

2022-10-09 Thread Dwight Arthur
our parent/child structure. If you decide to try this out, be sure to take a good backup of your file before you start so you can restore it if you decide you are not happy with the result. -Dwight On 10/9/2022 2:16 AM, 'simon...@googlemail.com'

Re: [MLO] Unable to backup

2022-10-02 Thread Dwight Arthur
started using this name at about the same time as backup stopped working? -Dwight On 10/1/2022 7:08 AM, Vadiraj Jambagi wrote: Hi, I am an Android MLO user since last 9 years. Off late, I am unable to backup my MLO data

[MLO] Re: "Snooze" feature for Active Tasks in "Active Actions" view

2022-10-02 Thread Dwight
start date and wait for today 2PM if you like. -Dwight On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 9:43:16 AM UTC-4 Stéph wrote: > Hello Mike. There's definitely no "preset value" button you can use within > MLO. Some people are using an app called "Auto Hot Key" (or "

Re: [MLO] Workspace with filter to show active actions that don't have a due date, and also tasks due before +3 days from now?

2022-09-16 Thread Dwight Arthur
sub-rules or individual rules? And when you say "Active is True", am I right in thinking that it is "ActiveAction" you're referring to? On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:11:21 PM UTC+1 Dwight wrote: Actually,

Re: [MLO] [MLO 6 Feature request]

2022-08-28 Thread Dwight
score algorithm for each view. -Dwight On August 28, 2022 8:29:44 AM EDT, Matthieu B wrote: >I'd love to get complete control over computed-score and be able to >customize it using a bunch of different parameters outside the classics >(importance/urgency) e.g. Time required. Is there

Re: [MLO] Custom Views?

2022-08-21 Thread Dwight
to your other platform. -Dwight On August 21, 2022 9:58:48 AM EDT, Gary Petro wrote: >I am using the cloud sync and have defined a few custom views. >Do I need to export and then import EACH view? > >Anyone know when views will be able to be synced via cloud? > >Thanks. >Gary

Re: [MLO] Accidentally deleted a task on Android app, is there a trash?

2022-08-17 Thread Dwight
. You can bring of a backup, copy the task from the backup and paste it into your task list. But only if you are actually taking backups and if you can recognize the desired task when you see it, which sounds unlikely this time. -Dwight On August 16, 2022 11:20:52 PM EDT, "M. Leigh Bender&quo

Re: [MLO] Re: How to? Multiple instances

2022-08-08 Thread Dwight Arthur
toolbar, menu bar, or either sidebar. go back to the first window and load the second view. You now have two different views into your data, side by side in two windows. -Dwight On 8/8/2022 11:29 AM, Frank wrote: Thats a shame. I would like to work

Re: [MLO] Re: View by Context with Folders?

2022-08-08 Thread Dwight Arthur
g to a colon ":" and a blank " "     turn on Prefix Here is what you get.     -Dwight On 8/8/2022 3:23 AM, Stéph wrote: Grouping works best with flat lists (Show Hierarchy: No). With a hierarchical outline, the group by will only

Re: [MLO] Workspace with filter to show active actions that don't have a due date, and also tasks due before +3 days from now?

2022-08-01 Thread Dwight
Now))) So the entire rule would be ((dueDateTime onOrBefore Today+3) And (Complete Is False)) OR ((Active is True) AND ((StartDateTime DoesNotExist) OR (StartDateTime OnOrAfter Now))) Hth -Dwight On August 1, 2022 4:46:16 AM EDT, 'Hammy Havoc' via MyLifeOrganized wrote: >Hi all, >

Fwd: [MLO] Problems on the Sort Order in My Task List

2022-07-24 Thread Dwight Arthur
or if I have made incorrect assumptions about what you are doing or what you need. But if you have MLO and you are just using the All Tasks view, that would be, to me, like buying a Lamborghini and hooking up a team of donkeys to pull it down the highway. You should look into

Re: [MLO] trouble accessing

2022-07-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
a followup email saying specifically what you need (ie activation information). Question: did you receive any email confirming the information that you saw on your screen at time of purchase? -Dwight On 7/17/2022 17:38, Michelle W wrote: I just

Re: [MLO] [REQUEST][ANDROID] WIDGETS > CONTEXT MENU > Add UNDO action to the list

2022-07-14 Thread Dwight Arthur
. Buy new shirts Good luck! On 7/13/2022 08:25, 'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized wrote: Dwight, you told me that idea YEARS ago, and you’re right; I use it every day. Thank You. Any tips for how to get

Re: [MLO] [REQUEST] CONTEXTS > SHOW IN > New setting - Show in props line

2022-07-10 Thread Dwight Arthur
imagine what your suggestion would mean in my system. On Thursday, 7 July 2022 at 14:51:28 UTC+2 Dwight wrote: If you used tags instead of contexts for the filtering would the problem go away?

Re: [MLO] [IDEA] [ANDROID] FILTER BY CONTEXT > Negative / not in condition

2022-07-07 Thread Dwight Arthur
You know that's available in the advanced filter, right? I believe that to be useful you need a way to specify order of operations, for example to distinguish ((this AND this)BUT NOT that) from (this AND (this BUT NOT that)) - this is easy in advanced filter but

Re: [MLO] [REQUEST] CONTEXTS > SHOW IN > New setting - Show in props line

2022-07-07 Thread Dwight Arthur
If you used tags instead of contexts for the filtering would the problem go away? On 7/7/2022 05:49, Radek Pilich wrote: Consider adding new setting to the context items - Show in props line. Right now, ALL assigned context

Re: [MLO] [REQUEST][ANDROID] WIDGETS > CONTEXT MENU > Add UNDO action to the list

2022-07-07 Thread Dwight Arthur
I have a view that shows all tasks that were modified in the last 48 hours, sorted in descending order by time modified. It's useful when I want to undo something. It's better than "undo" because I can undo the penultimate thing I did without having to redo the

Re: [MLO] error on cloud sync

2022-07-05 Thread Dwight Arthur
certain that your cloud subscription has not expired? When you try synching on your mobile devices? On July 5, 2022 14:31:43 Victor Vos wrote: Hi Dwight, Thanks for your help! I think I have a regular Windows version. It runs on Crossover that makes it possible to use windows programs on apples

RE: [MLO] error on cloud sync

2022-07-04 Thread Dwight Arthur
e are more steps before the error, what are they? -Dwight On July 4, 2022 09:07:37 "'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized" wrote: Hi. If it’s of use to you, I’ve been using the desktop version and cloud sync for many years and never have problems, so I sense it’s something r

Re: [MLO] Re: Can my car be a location based context?

2022-06-22 Thread Dwight Arthur
an interesting suggestion. I definitely have contexts that should be open any time I'm in my car, irrespective of what the current location of the car might be. -Dwight On 6/22/2022 19:24, imajeff wrote: Well, Context was of course intended

[MLO] contexts by keyboard

2022-06-17 Thread Dwight Arthur
up the mouse, mousing over to the context and clicking it. But either of those options is too much work - there must be a way to do what I want with just a few taps. I've tried all the combinations of Space, Tab and Enter, alone or combined with Shift Alt or CTRL - none of them se

Re: [MLO] Re: How to repeat a task every year for only a few months

2022-05-24 Thread Dwight Arthur
I am close to Susanna's second option. I have a huge number of outdoor-oriented tasks, summer daily, some are weekly, some are monthly, one is every 11 days. I tag them all with the word " hibernate ". When it gets cold, I create a task called "end hibernation", set it for next year April 1

Re: [MLO] MLO-Win v6 Ideas...

2022-05-11 Thread Dwight Arthur
Scripts would be amazing, especially if they could be triggered by a condition in the data as well as by an action. For example, if this task goes more than one week overdue, send an email to Joe with a copy to me. Alternative, build an API and attach an external scripting app like ifttt On

Re: [MLO] How to set up multi-task group where I can easily mark all subtasks not done?

2022-05-09 Thread Dwight Arthur
sounds to me like a repeating project. In the "Task recurrence" page for the parent project, open "advanced options" and be certain that "reset all subtasks to uncompleted" is set On 5/8/2022 13:39, Charles Blaquière wrote: I have a

RE: [MLO] MLO-Win v6 Ideas...

2022-05-06 Thread Dwight Arthur
I support rich text in notes as well, but I will note that this feature would probably require a formatting toolbar with buttons for enabling and disabling bold, italic, underline, strikeout as well as indent, bullet, number, larger font, smaller font. Further, if the formatting toolbar were

Re: [MLO] Re: Filter by Day Name (Monday, Tuesday, etc)

2022-04-29 Thread Dwight Arthur
This kind of thing generally requires a modulo or remainder function (divide the date by seven and take the remainder) which is unfortunately beyond the capability of the advanced filter. This is clearly different from what you are asking for but maybe you might

Re: [MLO] Re: Suspended project tasks still appear in active actions

2022-03-24 Thread Dwight Arthur
o I am confident that Stéph's filter will do what  you are requesting. My suggestion, if you want to discuss it further, would be for you to give an example of a small project and a filter and say what it does versus what you want it to do. -Dwight

Re: [MLO] Re: Status post: Situation in Ukraine

2022-03-09 Thread Dwight Arthur
/en * Caritas Ukraine (provides humanitarian assistance)  https://caritas.ua/ * Territory of Kindness  https://www.facebook.com/vuf.td/ -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [MLO] Re: Status post: Situation in Ukraine

2022-03-08 Thread Dwight Arthur
a couple of guys from the team still in Kharkiv. I know nothing about them, including their names I'm sorry to say. -Dwight On 3/8/2022 14:33, Jonathan Davis wrote: Any news from Andrey, Alonya and the team

Re: [MLO] Re: Status post: Situation in Ukraine

2022-02-24 Thread Dwight Arthur
believe that the invading armies may take a bite out of Ukraine they may find it difficult to swallow. I admire the courage of the Ukrainians and hope that you all can keep yourselves and your families safe. -Dwight On 2/24/2022 08:10, Stéph wrote

Re: [MLO] Re: Project names not showing in project column of view: Why?

2022-02-15 Thread Dwight Arthur
Then you can choose, in the event that a task is at the bottom of a stack of projects-within-projects whether the project to be shown is the top-level or bottom-level project. -Dwight On 2/15/2022 12:23, Stéph wrote: Hello Paula, I've just tried t

Re: [MLO] Exporting view from desktop not working

2022-02-06 Thread Dwight Arthur
of these, the button that used to say "discard changes" now says "Save view As" and you are ready to export. -Dwight On 2/6/2022 06:28, Ben Green wrote: When I right click on a view and choose "Export", I get this mess

[MLO] Re: FEATURE REQUEST DESKTOP: Add Completed Date option for view column

2022-01-29 Thread Dwight Arthur
and right. click and drag to the left. -Dwight On 1/28/2022 02:41, btgre...@gmail.com wrote: In the MLO Desktop, it is not currently possible to include a column for an individual

Re: [MLO] Windows Autostart Option?

2022-01-16 Thread Dwight Arthur
Good suggestion, MOK. For MLO shortcut files, I point to the .ml data file instead of the .exe because once or twice a year after an update MLO has to be shown where the day file is at. With the data file as the shortcut it never has to ask. -Dwight On January 16, 2022 12:44:01 "MOK | MA

[MLO] Re: What to do about tasks with potential NEGATIVE outcome and procrastination?

2022-01-03 Thread Dwight
, so the motivational effect of having a splash of red is lost. -Dwight On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 3:54:46 PM UTC-5 mv1...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi johntom... > > IMO tools like MLO helps you empty your mind but that new available space > should not be filled with potential negat

Re: [MLO] Do we have a way to vote users' ideas/enhancements requests?

2022-01-03 Thread Dwight Arthur
in uservoice and it withered away. -Dwight On 1/2/2022 22:38, Patricio Carranza wrote: hi, hope you all began 2022 really well! I was wondering if we currently have some way to vote user's ideas and enhancements requests

Re: [MLO] Re: Partners using one MLO Pro license

2021-12-13 Thread Dwight Arthur
making an exception to your no-subscriptions rule. -Dwight On 12/12/2021 20:01, rex ren wrote: Hi Stéphane, That's unfortunate.  However, I noticed that MLO has the capacity to sync with Google Calendar.  Would it be possible

Re: [MLO] Need GTD/MLO feedback on active action lists with tasks that ALWAYS stick around

2021-12-13 Thread Dwight Arthur
I work off of a custom view of today's active tasks. If I am getting it right, the first task in the list is the next thing I should work on. If I encounter a task in that list that I am not willing to do at this time, I consider the question: what would have to change to make it ready for

Re: [MLO] Re: Sync Android app to local file

2021-12-12 Thread Dwight Arthur
. -Dwight On 12/10/2021 09:49, Stéph wrote: WiFi sync is a direct sync between your mobile device and the file on your laptop. It has its limitations, though - the main one of these being that you have to set it up as if synching to a new file every

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO Windows sort by context

2021-12-12 Thread Dwight Arthur
So I just clicked on the context column header in my current display and it immediately sorted the view by context. I think maybe this works on views where hierarchy is turned off, also known as flat views or to-do lists. If you are looking at a hierarchical

Re: [MLO] Advance Filter: subfilters, how-to?

2021-12-03 Thread Dwight Arthur
On December 3, 2021 01:56:27 Grant wrote: 'basically deletes the rule" Not actually true. If a rule contains filters and then becomes the root for a group of subrules, the filters are hidden. You can get them back -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [MLO] Advance Filter: subfilters, how-to?

2021-11-30 Thread Dwight Arthur
a subrule, leave it essentially empty, and then put your sub filters at the next level down -Dwight On November 30, 2021 08:56:53 Grant wrote: Hi, I can not get my head around how to add subfilters in the Advanced Filter. When I create a top level filter, and click on the 'subfilter' button

Re: [MLO] Is there ever going to be a web app for MLO?

2021-11-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
Hi, all. I'm going to reply to imajeff off of the Google group as I am not interested in posting a recipe for breaking MLO where people I don't know could read it -Dwight On November 16, 2021 17:07:42 imajeff wrote: The more explanation I read from Dwight, the more questions I come up

Re: [MLO] Is there ever going to be a web app for MLO?

2021-11-16 Thread Dwight Arthur
the data in the cloud sync database. This way, you would have the freedom to unlock your own tasks to your web app plus any attackers from the Internet who take an interest, while I would be able to leave my tasks secured. -Dwight On 11/10/2021 06:02, Laurence Glazier

[MLO] Re: The use of 'next' in parsing

2021-11-06 Thread Dwight Arthur
ys confirm with a date when sharing with others. On Monday, November 1, 2021 at 9:00:04 PM UTC+1 imajeff wrote: Dwight now I'm confused because no post I see on this thread forgot to specify that the parser should never assume a day already completed. They say, "after today" and "futur

Re: [MLO] Re: The use of 'next' in parsing

2021-10-28 Thread Dwight Arthur
his, and they have chosen their own logical approach, which is consistent, if also not fully adapted to actual usage: Friday(nearest Friday in future) next Friday(next Friday after nearest Friday in future) This I can live with, and I am sure its easier to program around ;-) -Grant On T

Re: [MLO] Recurring Daily Task

2021-10-23 Thread Dwight Arthur
icon which is a circulr arrow which starts as a dashed line and becomes a solid line On 10/22/2021 09:01, Ryan K wrote: Hello Dwight, If you had intended to reply, it looks like I did not receive anything. Ryan

Re: [MLO] 'Tags' Discussion - why not allow more than one at a time?

2021-10-23 Thread Dwight Arthur
lso note that the semicolon isn't required and doesn't do anything, i just added it for human legibility I don't know much about calendar sync, it's possy that it requires a tag that cannot coexist with other tags. If so I would request calendar sync be enhanced to permit coexistence -Dwight -- You

Re: [MLO] Is there ever going to be a web app for MLO?

2021-10-21 Thread Dwight Arthur
You may have missed my point. If I use MLO/desktop AND I use cloud sync, and you use MLO/webwhich is attached to the cloud file, then my data will be insecure even if I myself never use MLO/web. If you want me to explain this, write to me at mlodu...@gmail.com -Dwight On October 21, 2021 10

Re: [MLO] Recurring Daily Task

2021-10-21 Thread Dwight Arthur
Hi, Ryan On October 21, 2021 13:09:55 Ryan K wrote: I have several recurring tasks that I complete each day. Rarely I miss a day or two. When I do, I have to click through all of them for several days to catch up to the current day. In the task recurrence window, there is an option to

Re: [MLO] Is there ever going to be a web app for MLO?

2021-10-20 Thread Dwight Arthur
for concern. If any miscreant who has an app and can guess or steal my password can retrieve all my tasks I would consider MLO cloud sync to be profoundly insecure. That would be a shame because I really like MLO cloud sync. -Dwight On 10/20/2021 13:12, Joel wrote

Re: [MLO] Next actions, contexts and open/closed

2021-10-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
would work for you would be to use AND instead. The best workaround I've seen is to use contexts only if they involvce open hours and use tags for all other contexts -Dwight On 10/18/2021 09:31, JJ wrote: Hello all, I've been using MLO for about a decade a

Re: [MLO] Re: The use of 'next' in parsing

2021-09-30 Thread Dwight Arthur
Just a question: the issue is simplest when discussing Mondays and gets tougher later in the week. On Thursday, your proposal would make "next Friday" synonymous with "tomorrow". Are you really comfortable with this? -Dwight On September 30, 2021 04:16:35 Stéph wrote:

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO Android - Version 4 not available?

2021-09-22 Thread Dwight Arthur
So, if I want to avail myself of all of your latest functionality, but I also want to remain in the BETA stream, so that any future beta releases will be available for installing and testing, should my current installation be from BETA or PLAY? On September 22, 2021 04:57:28 "Alyona (MLO

Re: [MLO] Re: Unbelievable if not available! - Quick Filters: by Importance, Due Today

2021-07-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
 On July 17, 2021 02:02:26 "zel...@gmail.com" wrote: What about: creating a new workspace tab setting up the filters you want right click on workspace tab "Set as default for this tab"right click on workspace tab "Lock default in this tab " right click on workspace tab "Pin this tab" Right

Re: [MLO] Synchronization problems across multiple devices

2021-06-28 Thread Dwight Arthur
profiles to supp...@mylifeorganized.net Include a message telling what was going on and copy in any error message. Hope this helps -Dwight On June 28, 2021 14:27:49 Sigi K wrote: I'm not sure if MLO is the right Taskmanaging Tool for me in the long run. I bought it back then to get a Taskmanager which

RE: [MLO] advanced filter

2021-06-15 Thread Dwight Arthur
of those projects. -Dwight On June 15, 2021 16:14:08 Dwight Arthur wrote: On June 15, 2021 10:12:18 "'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized" wrote: Dwight, I believe, gave me the answer to this a long time ago. It’s not related to the upgrade I don’t think. I wish I coul

RE: [MLO] advanced filter

2021-06-15 Thread Dwight Arthur
On June 15, 2021 10:12:18 "'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized" wrote: Dwight, I believe, gave me the answer to this a long time ago. It’s not related to the upgrade I don’t think. I wish I could remember the solution, but it had to do with looking at the parent, as

Re: [MLO] Parsing Switches only allow 5 out of 7 levels for for Importance, Urgency and Effort

2021-06-01 Thread Dwight Arthur
is very easily dome on Windows but is quite challenging on mobile. If I could parse with a switch that said -iv132 or -iv85 it would make it way easier. -Dwight On 6/1/2021 11:45, 'Christoph' via MyLifeOrganized wrote: I'm giving the auto-sorting

Re: [MLO] Notion API

2021-05-17 Thread Dwight Arthur
. -Dwight On 5/17/2021 17:32, roland wrote: Hi, I looked at several tutorials and think that notion is an interesting product and concept for note taking, organizing, databases, etc. But mlo is the better task list. Now notion

Re: [MLO] Re: Show list of all open workspace

2021-05-17 Thread Dwight Arthur
my own preferences. On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 1:14:15 PM UTC-6 Dwight wrote: I had a similar problem. Then I came up with icons that clearly indica

Re: [MLO] Re: Show list of all open workspace

2021-05-16 Thread Dwight Arthur
. -Dwight On 5/14/2021 17:09, Joel wrote: Yeah ditto.  I routinely have EXACTLY as many tabs as will fit and still kinda see the tab names.   Iow, I'm constrained.  A little hamburger menu that drops open with all the tab names

[MLO] Re: What Do Y'all Use for Notes

2021-04-28 Thread Dwight
after learning about GTD to get my productivity back, I spent that year trying all sorts of stuff that worked for somebody else, finding the parts that work for me and getting rid of the rest. It would probably take two years to absorb ketteltasken, I am slower now. suggestions welcome -Dwight

Re: [MLO] Re: Which version for Linux?

2021-04-13 Thread Dwight Arthur
is almost always higher functionality. The only area I can think of with higher function on the mobile side, is the rules editor for advanced filter rules, which is more recently designed and much easier to use in the mobile version. -Dwight On 4/13/2021 14:29, PJO wrote

Re: [MLO] Re: Frequent Crashes of MLO for Windows, V5.1.1

2021-03-03 Thread Dwight Arthur
causes a crash (I seem to get a lot of crashes caused by various browsers) while MLO is running, upon recovery MLO will ask if it crashed - I answer no and that's it. -Dwight On 3/3/2021 10:33, Stéph wrote: My experience is the same as Christoph's

Re: [MLO] Sync

2021-03-01 Thread Dwight Arthur
locloud and look at the field "Cloud File" - get the file name that's there. Do the two file names match? -Dwight On 3/1/2021 08:35, Bob Lynch wrote: I renamed my main mlo file on my pc and now I cannot sync between the PC and my

Re: [MLO] Common Task between multiple Project ...

2021-02-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
that will be initiated upon completion of the common task, and then go into the dependencies section for each of these tasks and mark it dependent on the common task. -Dwight On 2/17/2021 13:46, westpointusma via MyLifeOrganized wrote

Re: [MLO] export text tags

2021-02-18 Thread Dwight Arthur
Instead of the difficult maneuver of hitting the caret without getting the completed checkbox, try just doubleclicking or doubletapping the task caption -Dwight  On 2/17/2021 14:40, David G wrote: Seperate question  I often

Re: [MLO] Re: New to MLO

2021-02-15 Thread Dwight Arthur
ot; which puts them to the top of the list, while some that I access a couple of times per year are at the bottom, starting with "☆" -Dwight On 2/15/2021 10:28, Stéph wrote: & is a hashtag for me, for searching or filtering my outline for rol

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