[MLO] Re: MyLifeOrganized 5 public beta is out!

[Remy]

I do agree with you.

However I think that it is nice that there is a possibility to add HTML 
code but not as the default format method.
There are mark up languages as Latex that can't do without but it is i.m.o. 
not a nice way to format text. 
Much much easier to use *B*,*I*,*U* A, *Link*  numbering, left-right-center 
aligning icons

I think you're right about switching between Edit View to Preview

Yes, in html you can switch textsize and color but in the MLO markup 
language you can switch textsize as well
To know more about the markup language please see this page: 
http://blog.mylifeorganized.net/
There is a lot of information inside.

I do agree as well with you argument how to copy text with markup language.
You can copy the text but you have to switch to Preview Task Properties.

I'm testing v5 but after a few hours I've stopped using Markup.
Just don't like it. Did not like it in whatever software that had it. 
(but it is better than nothing: maybe the MLO developers need to rewrite 
their entire code to adapt styling like the one in google groups)
Alyona?

Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 19:18:57 UTC+2 schreef Frank:
>
> The ability to format text was one of the most wanted features since the 
> beginning of MLO. Now MLO 5 offers (kind of) this long awaited future. But 
> i don´t get it. Learning kind of HTML to format text? Really? Markdown was 
> designed to write for the web. Why should you use it in a taskmanager? 
>
> *Here my first impression, questions:*
>
>- You have constantly to switch from Edit View to Preview. Who want´s 
>that?
>- How do i change the textsize in Preview? It´s much to small on my 
>high DPI monitors
>- Can i use charts and colour?
>- Can i import formatted text?
>- Which Markdown commands are supported? Where is the documentation?
>- How do i copy formatted text to use in another application?
>- How do i copy text to use in another application at all? Shoud i 
>manually delete all markdown code?
>- How can in change the background colour. It looks like what ever you 
>set in themes has no effect, right?
>
>
> Am i the only one who thinks that this was the most cumbersome way 
> possible to integrate text formatting options in MLO?
> A simple editor like the one here to write this post would habe been 
> useful but this is a major disapointment. Sorry i can´t share the euphoria.
>

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Re: [MLO] Workflow problem: How do I distinguish "do this week" tasks from has appeared from my Tickler List?

[Trevor Peck]

TL;DR: I use the "review" function to handle this issue, with all tasks
that are not "This week" in a branch hidden from the to-do list..


I made a view that shows every task that does not have a review date. I
made a daily recurring task to check that view and assign review dates
and/or intervals as appropriate until the view is empty. (I suspect most
people would be happy doing this weekly, but I'm working on a major project
with very little knowledge of how to do it, so my plans change OFTEN.)

Now every task has a review date and (likely) interval. Many tasks do not
need to be reviewed (e.g. subtasks of a project), so their interval gets
set to 520 weeks. (This is because when I click to select "years" while
editing task properties, it disappears from this view and I can no longer
mark it reviewed, and 520 weeks seems like long enough.)

 This way, I can put every Someday / Maybe task in the same folder, which
is hidden from the to-do list, and I am reminded often of the important
ones and less often for the not-so important ones. When I want to select
one to be performed this week, I just move it to "Active", no date
necessary.

 I schedule ten minutes for each day's review, but in practice it seldom
takes more than a minute or two, even though I sometimes have 50 or more
tasks to glance at. Going through the inbox does take longer using this
method, but taking longer to process inbox tasks was one of the prices I
decided I was willing to pay when I started using GTD, so it works for me.

 I am currently trying out using this for repeat tasks with long intervals,
like semi-annual or longer. This is because often those tasks are important
but the date is very flexible. I can set the review interval to something
short, like daily or weekly, and change the review date to six months out.
This lets me schedule these tasks when they fit in, and then adjust the
review date for next time once I complete them. I can also date them if I
wish, with a recurring date, and if I ever mark one completed without
adjusting the review date it shows up soon to remind me to fix that. I'm
not sure how I like this yet and I probably won't know for, you know, six
months or so. ;-)

 - Trevor.

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:49 AM John . Smith  wrote:

>
>
> Hello
>
> I just got an insight.
>
> First a little background: On my system, if a task is Active in MLO it
> means "do this week".
> I use the Active view and move the Start Dates into the future (using
> keyboard hotkeys), so that I don't even see them for [X] days. This is my
> "Tickler List" in GTD speak.
> Then at the start of each day, I look at all my Active tasks and give a
> Star to any task that is "do today".
>
> So far so good.
>
> However my insight is: Just because a task has become visible does not
> *necessarily* mean that it is "do this week".  What it really means is: 
> "*consider
> *doing this week"!   i.e. In effect "Review this week"... but no, the
> decision to actually "do it this week" has not yet been taken!
>
> So what has been happening is that my "do this week" lists of tasks keep
> getting cluttered up with stuff that I had only kicked into the future, but
> which I have not YET decided to actually do this week - if at all!
>
> And being a v slow reader, this has been leading to clutter and overwhelm.
>
>
> BACKGROUND
> At present I am using a Context-tag to flag up stuff that is on my "Do
> Someday/Maybe" list. And on most of my views I remove these from view
> (using an Advanced filter).
>
> And because I have quite so many tasks in this "Someday/Maybe" list, I
> also have a "Do Soon" Context-tag, that also removes tasks from my views.
> "Do Soon" is something that I keep fairly small in number, and which I will
> review during the week when I have a bit of slack time. Whereas "Do
> Someday/Maybe" only gets reviewed once per week, sometimes once per two
> weeks. For truly long-terms stuff I have an Archive folder where I dump
> stuff for reviewing in 6+ months, rather than actually deleting it.
>
>
> But I am now wondering how to distinguish "actually do this week" tasks
> from tasks that have merely appeared from my Tickler List.
>
> Do I really to assign a "This_Week" context to each task I'm going to
> execute?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> J
>
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[MLO] Re: MyLifeOrganized 5 public beta is out!

[Domas]

I have to agree here.
The preview/edit mode split is the most annoying thing for me. All the text 
formatting gets not used, because I don't use the Preview mode.

I wonder what are the reasons for this decision.
It seems to me, that the simple rich text formatting implementation (like 
the one I see now, while writing this comment) should have been easier. And 
much more useful in my opinion.

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 8:18:57 PM UTC+3, Frank wrote:
>
> The ability to format text was one of the most wanted features since the 
> beginning of MLO. Now MLO 5 offers (kind of) this long awaited future. But 
> i don´t get it. Learning kind of HTML to format text? Really? Markdown was 
> designed to write for the web. Why should you use it in a taskmanager? 
>
> *Here my first impression, questions:*
>
>- You have constantly to switch from Edit View to Preview. Who want´s 
>that?
>- How do i change the textsize in Preview? It´s much to small on my 
>high DPI monitors
>- Can i use charts and colour?
>- Can i import formatted text?
>- Which Markdown commands are supported? Where is the documentation?
>- How do i copy formatted text to use in another application?
>- How do i copy text to use in another application at all? Shoud i 
>manually delete all markdown code?
>- How can in change the background colour. It looks like what ever you 
>set in themes has no effect, right?
>
>
> Am i the only one who thinks that this was the most cumbersome way 
> possible to integrate text formatting options in MLO?
> A simple editor like the one here to write this post would habe been 
> useful but this is a major disapointment. Sorry i can´t share the euphoria.
>

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[MLO] Re: Keyboard-only Q: How do I give focus to the next task on my list, after the current task disappears?

[John . Smith]

It will require a bit of concentration, but yes that works. Thank you. 

I still think that MLO should give focus to the next task on your list more 
easily, though.
In fact, I can't see why it doesn't just give focus to the next task on the 
current view automatically. 

Would that be useful to anyone else?

J




On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 12:34:01 AM UTC+1, Steve Neas wrote:
>
> Alt-left arrow will take you back to the previously selected task.
>
> If you have a task selected that's going to disppear from the view,  you 
> could hit down-arrow then up-arrow before you change the date.
> After you change the date and the task disappears, Alt-left will take you 
> back to the previous task (the one you initially down-arrowed to).
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:50:26 AM UTC-5, John . Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> When you are in an Active view, after you have just made a task no longer 
>> Active, without using my mouse, how do you get focus on to the next task 
>> in your list?
>>
>> Background
>> When looking at an "Active tasks" view, I am in the habit of "kicking 
>> tasks into the future" using just the keyboard. For example I might move 
>> the Start Date 3 days into the future by doing Alt/S 3 D.  This works well.
>>
>> My problem is that when I do this, the current task (quite correctly) 
>> disappears from current view and this means that no task on the current 
>> view is selected.  Whereas my workflow is that I am working my way down my 
>> list of tasks, and so what I want to happen is to go to the NEXT task in my 
>> list. 
>>
>> Is there any way to go to the *next* task in my list just by using my 
>> keyboard?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> J
>>
>

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[MLO] Workflow problem: How do I distinguish "do this week" tasks from has appeared from my Tickler List?

[John . Smith]

Hello 

I just got an insight. 

First a little background: On my system, if a task is Active in MLO it 
means "do this week".
I use the Active view and move the Start Dates into the future (using 
keyboard hotkeys), so that I don't even see them for [X] days. This is my 
"Tickler List" in GTD speak.
Then at the start of each day, I look at all my Active tasks and give a 
Star to any task that is "do today".

So far so good.

However my insight is: Just because a task has become visible does not 
*necessarily* mean that it is "do this week".  What it really means is: 
"*consider 
*doing this week"!   i.e. In effect "Review this week"... but no, the 
decision to actually "do it this week" has not yet been taken!

So what has been happening is that my "do this week" lists of tasks keep 
getting cluttered up with stuff that I had only kicked into the future, but 
which I have not YET decided to actually do this week - if at all!  

And being a v slow reader, this has been leading to clutter and overwhelm.


BACKGROUND
At present I am using a Context-tag to flag up stuff that is on my "Do 
Someday/Maybe" list. And on most of my views I remove these from view 
(using an Advanced filter).  

And because I have quite so many tasks in this "Someday/Maybe" list, I also 
have a "Do Soon" Context-tag, that also removes tasks from my views. "Do 
Soon" is something that I keep fairly small in number, and which I will 
review during the week when I have a bit of slack time. Whereas "Do 
Someday/Maybe" only gets reviewed once per week, sometimes once per two 
weeks. For truly long-terms stuff I have an Archive folder where I dump 
stuff for reviewing in 6+ months, rather than actually deleting it. 


But I am now wondering how to distinguish "actually do this week" tasks 
from tasks that have merely appeared from my Tickler List. 

Do I really to assign a "This_Week" context to each task I'm going to 
execute?

Any thoughts?

J
 













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Re: [MLO] MyLifeOrganized for Windows v.5 in detail: Markdown

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Your current private beta version 5.0.0.3012 is outdated a bit. You need to 
download the latest public beta.

On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 2:45:24 AM UTC+3, Michael Emerald wrote:
>
> AHHH, Show & Tell time!  Here’s mine below:
>
>  
>
> *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Alyona (MLO Support)
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 26, 2018 02:12
> *To:* MyLifeOrganized
> *Subject:* Re: [MLO] MyLifeOrganized for Windows v.5 in detail: Markdown
>
>  
>
>
> 
>
> Does it look different on your side?
>
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 8:16:14 PM UTC+3, Michael Emerald wrote:
>
> I must be dense: tools>options>appearance but all I see are the task 
> parameter checkboxes.  Where is Markdown? 
>
>  
>
> FYI I am using 5.0.0.3012
>
>  
>
> *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Alyona (MLO Support)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 25, 2018 04:37
> *To:* MyLifeOrganized
> *Subject:* [MLO] MyLifeOrganized for Windows v.5 in detail: Markdown
>
>  
>
> We are now starting the series of articles on MyLifeOrganized for Windows 
> v.5 with one of the new interesting features - Markdown. It is a 
> lightweight markup language and, as you will see, it is a sophisticated 
> notes editing tool which significantly enhances formatting potential. See 
> more on our blog: 
> http://blog.mylifeorganized.net/2018/04/markdown-in-mylifeorganized-5.html
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[MLO] Feature Suggestion: Select multiple items in reminder dialog

[b . campag]

I thought I'd read this would be included in v5 but apparently not: 

the ability to use Ctrl-click and Shift-click in their usual manner to 
select multiple items in the reminder window so they all may be, in unison, 
completed/dismissed/snoozed. (Obviously "open" would not be a valid choice 
with multiple selections.)

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