Hi, MH. I don't really know much about lost and found but I see that you
are not getting an answer so I will tell you what I know. This is caused by
a conflict between the MLO database on windows and a device. But it's not
from the ordinary sort of conflict like when you change a task's due
I think that the easiest thing is to use the PRINT function in the FILE
menu. The basic print function produces, I believe, an HTML file which you
can just open with Word. Or you can get fancy and use the PrintMod function
which produces a fancy pocket-sized booklet and stores it, if I recall
When I first tried Android move I found it tedious as the only way I was
moving tasks was by tap-tap-tapping on the arrow icons. That was before the
people on this list showed me how to do the drag-and-drop using the drag
handles that appear at the right edge of each task when in move mode.
Phil's reply regarding FTP sync is pretty thorough and I agree, but I just
want to add one point. Using FTP Sync to propagate a desktop MLO profile
from one system to another is really a copy, not a sync. If you have two
desktops with MLO, each with a local profile file with identical contents,
Hi, all. I'm replying to the conversation about synching which was
happening here:
https:
//groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mylifeorganized/6IPX0WSNwYA/TteMfhEUpA0J
I moved it because I didn't think goodbye everyone was a good title for
what we are discussing.
I want to thank Lisa and ctenorman
Hi. Kitus. I drag from outlook to MLO a *lot* because it's the fastest way
of making a task out of an email. I could also forward the email to the
cloud server for MLO by Email but that's more work. Once the task is
created, I work from the task note which contains the email body. I don't
use
You may possibly find some help here:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/rapi-dll-not-found-missing-error.htm
On Friday, August 31, 2012 10:44:26 PM UTC-4, WIggy07 wrote:
Synch by WIFI to IPad RAPI.DLL file missing in Windows 8Is a fix
available or being worked
Hi, Ram. Many people use the Star attribute to mean must do - you can
then do stuff like using the sort in your to-do list to put the starred
tasks ahead of the non-starred ones, and you can pull up the starred view
to clean out starred tasks that you have finished or given up on.
I hope you
Malibu Greg: It seems to me that there is a lot of support for your
suggestion among the MLO user community, from the privacy-seekers such as
yourself as well as those who want to avoid monthly payments. I think that
you should consider writing a proposal on UserVoice and then using this
Hi, Robert. The most powerful logical calculus (or, and, not, etc) in MLO
can be found in the advanced section of the view definition, so you will
probably have the best chance of success if you try to build your solution
there.
This is not a fully thought out solution, just kind of a
I've been thinking long and hard about this and I think I've been coming at
it from the wrong angle. I have been studying, when there's a conflict, how
can an algorithm resolve it. The better question, I think, is whether the
conflict can be avoided. The only way to make a conflict is to update
I may have been unclear, I am not proposing that latest transmission time
wins. I agree with you that transmission time alone would give bad results.
Specifically I am proposing an adjusted timestamp which is {client's local
time of edit} minus {client's local time of transmission} plus
On Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:19:11 PM UTC-4, Dwight Arthur wrote:
I do not believe timestamps produce a reliable answer even when the time
itself is reliable and accurate. I will document that in a separate message.
-Dwight
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Dino, MLO (this program) offers three layers of support for you, depending
on exactly what you need.
_Recurrence_ was described by Lisa in a previous answer. If it's just that
you have a group of tasks that you want to schedule repeatedly, every day,
every week, the second and fourth
Hi, Mok. There are two frequently requested features related to project
status. The first is for an additional value for the status field, and you
suggestion shows an excellent way to meet that request. The second it for
some workflow automation between the Project Status field and the task
Chris, my pleasure. You're right that there is a lot of counterintuitive
stuff and a steep learning curve. That's why I think we need a book on MLO
for newbies. Lisa is thinking about writing it, maybe you would want to
send her some encouragement
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 3:01:02
Hi, Jean-Marc. You are correct that the autosync algorithm is not
documented anywhere that you can access. The developer has confirmed that
the documentation of this algorithm will be posted soon to the MLO blog at
blog.mylifeorganized.net
The MLO4 Help documentation, a draft of which is
If you proposed this on UserVoice I would vote for it.
-Dwight
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:44:11 PM UTC-5, canadug wrote:
I'd like to be able to drag and drop an outlook email to a different tab
that than the current one. When you drag and drop the message to a
different tab the
Hi, BOC. Thank you so much for posting this. I have been kicking myself for
not draging out the CSS reference and learning how to code the darned
thing. But MLO has helped me focus on the things that I need to do urgently
today and this has not yet made the list.
Thomas, please advise, is this
Hi, Rob.
I have repeating projects with tasks that need to be reviewed from time to
time, despite the fact that they become completed frequently. When tasks
such as this become completed, your proposal would clear the review
frequency. When the task regenerates upon project completion,
Hi, Joe. You are asking to have a recurring task where you can get ahead
by completing future recurrences of the task. In order to have the future
recurrences appear in your active tasks list, you are looking to have the
tasks with no start date, or at least to have each new recurrence have
Hi, Yegor. I don't know exactly how MLO ius coded but from what I can see
as a user, MLO plays no part in determining the current location. I believe
that MLO just asks the Android OS for the current location. I believe that
Android makes use of GPS as well as triangulation off of nearby cell
Hi, Neil. As Stephane mentioned, there seems to be a lot of development
activity on the MLO for IOS platform. I don't think we know, yet, what sort
of functionality to expect in the next release, but it seems likely that
Andrey will be open to adding MLO/IOS users to the beta team. As a beta
If you have the Importance column showing in your display, Right-Click in
the column to get a menu of seven levels of importance. Or, in the Details
pane on the right, right-click right on the pointer in the importance
slider.
-Dwight
From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
Cloud Sync will not propagate a changed value of completion date time if
the completion status has not changed.
Steps:
1. On Windows, create a repeating task Parent with advanced recurrence
options set to recur when all subtasks are complete.
2. Create subtasks Sub1 and Sub2
3. On Windows
@David,
With grouping, you can expand and collapse individual groups. For example
if you have a group for each review date, you can easily collapse all and
then expand the section for exactly two weeks ago.
-Dwight
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 7:25:27 PM UTC-4, David Rees wrote:
I agree a review
Ben, you might want to go to UserVoice and vote for this enhancement.
Try this link:
http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/1732839-real-attach-files-features-embed-
-Dwight
On Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:09:37 PM UTC-4, Benny Karlson wrote:
Is it possible to I use my
I would be in favor of having the install process provide new users with a
locked outline tab and an unlocked to-do tab. What sore of warning are you
thinking of, Lisa?
-Dwight
On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:14:40 PM UTC-4, Lisa S wrote:
I wonder if the update process should lock the Outline tab
Hi, JR.
I just checked and my Android is syncing fine. Could this have been a
transient server outage? You would determine this by trying again 10 minutes
later and see if the problem is gone. One more thing to try is to completely
power down the phone and then power it back up again and see if
Hi, Lorenz,
Your screenshot did not come through so I'm not sure that I know what you
are asking.
Are you asking how to change the text that appears on the tab? If so, you
should follow the instructions called To Rename A Workspace in the MLO
Users Guide, page 51. You will find a lot of other
Hi, Robert. I understand that you are trying to find a solution that would
be easy to implement. My experience with MLO is that I should leave that
for the developers. Some changes that look easy to me turn out to be big
where others that seem complex are easily done. I guess it's in knowing
Hi, Axel. My copy of MLO is still archiving nicely.There was an enhancement
a while ago that prevents archiving of a completed item that is a part of a
project or a repeating group. This is to prevent problems when you try to
use the project or the repeating group and find that some of its
Hi, Kitus. When you are creating a shortcut in Windows (or if you edit an
existing shortcut by right-clicking the shortcut icon and select
Properties) you will see a field called start in. This controls the local
directory for the process started by the shortcut. The local directory is
used
David: +1 to the complete yesterday command - it's brilliant. It would
solve 70% of my completion date issues right away and with a little
discipline on my part it would be 99%.
-Dwight
On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:34:24 PM UTC-4, David Rees wrote:
Two things I have thought would be very
Hi, Joel. Every recurring task has a start date and a due date. I'm
guessing that you are assigning the start date as the day when I want to
start doing this task. Try instead thinking of it as The day when I want
to start seeing this task in my to-do list.
Imagine you have a task you need to
Hi, Ryan. No I don't know of any instructional videos for MLO. But maybe I
can help. I'm guessing here and if I've got this wrong I'm sorry but it
sounds like you are trying to learn hoe to use all of the functionality
that's in MLO. I think that would be way topo complex. One of the risks is
Hi, Globi.
There are several different requests in this thread, and it depends which
one you want.
Richard C. about four years ago requested allowing a dependency to specify
a lead or lag. I hope that's what you wanted too, because delayed
dependencies were implemented in the most recent
Hi, Dave. As you know you cannot create a recurrence without a due date.
Here's a workaround, which fails on your requirement for something simple
but more-or-less does what you want.
-Create a task named parent with start and due date set for the intended
start date of your next instance of
Hi, Lewie. I know three ways to change the parent of a task that already
exists.
1. drag and drop. Drop the task onto the folder that will be its new
parent. I assume that this is self-explanatory.
2. right click the task and select Move to... from the context menu. This
brings up a popup
Hi, James. I'm about 80% certain that this is the correct answer to your
question but if it does not work out for you please write back and we can
try something else.
There are two different things called templates, which is confusing. A .mlt
file, if I'm not mistaken, is for creating new
Hi, Veran.
MLO is a tool that could support many different methodologies for managing
your tasks. MLO by itself does not impose a particular methodology. You
have to find or invent a methodology that works for you, and then MLO will
help you keep track.
Most methodologies devote a major effort
Hi, 元亨大吉
I think that you are asking how to take a view which already includes all
the tasks you want to see, and sort this view by due date.
Try this
1. Bring up the view and ensure that all required tasks are being displayed
2. Bring up the view definition pane
a. is the pane at the left
Here's a recap of the discussions in this thread. If anyone has something
to say or to add, or would have summarized it differently please say so no
later than end of day Saturday October 26. In lieu of any further
discussion items my next step would be to revise the existing JIRA item for
Hi, Dave. I totally agree with Steve that SAVE is a function of the BACK
button, that you have no missing buttons or menus, and that your crashes
could very possibly be caused by a bad install.
I'd like to take the discussion a step further, though.
I found the whole idea of hitting back to do
Sorry, no.
For views that show a hierarchy, any defined sort is applied to the root
(parent) level and not to the leaf (child) level. Sometimes this leads to
clearly undesirable results, such as when a particular view shows a single
branch of the hierarchy, so that the level where the sort is
Hi, Yord Lisa.
I'm not understanding what problem you are trying to manage. But I think
that you are trying to use Shift+Click on the sync icon to check on the
status of cloud sync without initiating a sync. When I want to check the
status of cloud sync, I hover the mouse pointer over the sync
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:49:28 PM UTC-4, Mark Miller wrote:
When I click on the (url / hyperlink?) in MLO for the Outlook file
attached to a task, it won’t open . Am I doing something wrong?
Hi, Mark. It works fine for me.
(Stéph, I am using Outlook 14.0.7106.5003 from MSOffice
It's not a bad idea to discuss bugs on this forum, in order to check that
it's really a bug and not a user mistake of some kind. Sometimes you can
learn about a workaround. If you are sure it's a bug and want to report it
you should submit it by email to supp...@mylifeorganized.net
-Dwight
On
Hi, Mark.
Using MLO for Windows, hit F8 to bring up the context management window.
Select the @home context and click on the hours tab and select always open
You may actually have some contexts that are only actionable at certain times
on certain days. You can use the hours tab to make those
Hi, Sue. I know how to do this using cloud sync.
1. Make a copy of your profile, just in case.
2. Create a new file in your cloud server account.
3. Sync the restored backup file to the new cloud file.
4. Sync the profile to the same cloud file.
This will merge the two files, which will
Hi, Amber/Alice (?)
#1 should have worked. Lets go through it in small steps
1. Hit f8 to bring up the context window. In the left pane select the
purchase context. In the right pane be certain that all of your
purchase-related contexts are checked and that only they are checked.
2. Close the
Hi, Amber/Alice (?)
corrected`
#1 should have worked. Lets go through it in small steps
1. Hit f8 to bring up the context window. In the left pane select the
purchase context. In the right pane be certain that all of your
purchase-related contexts are checked and that only they
Hi, Christoph Robert
Christoph is correct that the MLO parser as currently implemented can handle
just a single date. However, if you want your start and due dates not to be
the same date you can use lead time to achieve what you want.
Try this:
Feed the cat -s 11.01.2014 -l4d remind me tomorrow
Robert, in the beta testing of nearby notifications, several people
complained that included contexts don't work. The most popular example is
that I need to buy something from a hardware store. There are three hrdware
stores that I pass frequently. When I am near any one of them I want to be
Hi Joel,
On Android, no. But you can quickly switch by going to the MLO home page
(usually by one press of the ESC button) and clicking the title bar at the
to, to produce a list of available profile files.
On Windows: yes. Open the Options window from the Tools Menu. Select the
Behaviour page
I had voted for the new suggestion but now I have moved my votes to the prior
suggestion. Thanks for pointing it out.
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Jan 9, 2014, NiMhurchu jan.stueh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Robert, please also see a similar discussion here:
Hi, Chris. You seem to be indicating that you prefer the way that
workspaces were designed prior to MLO V4. I'm not sure what that would
mean, because the concept of workspaces was introduced for MLO in V4. It
seems that you used something that you thought of as Workspaces in a prior
version
Hi. There may be a better answer, but I wanted to ask if you considered turning
your subfolders into ordinary subtasks, with the tasks inside them becoming
sub-subtasks. Advantage: not sure but I imagine that your tab will show
everything you want. Disadvantage: at some point you will have to
You cannot stop MLO from creating a top level folder named Inbox but you
don’t have to use it. You are free to create a top level folder named Collect.
It’s hard to impossible to modify the included view “Inbox” but nothing stops
you from creating another view called “collect” and showing the
Jon: I may have a solution but I want to test it before documenting it.
Question: in all of your discussion, the time to complete a task once its
predecessor finishes is always 7 days. Would it be fair to assume that the
duration for each task in a series will be the same? I believe that I cam
Hi, George. You can do this but you have to unpair and re-pair the desktop
whenever you want to switch what device it syncs with. You could also use cloud
sync which does this much better, for a fee. Unpairing and re-pairing sounds
like a pain but some people who want to avoid paying cloud
I'm okay with much of what's requested here. I even, to my surprise, find
that when a project gets suspended, I'm okay with all its subtasks becoming
inactive. Just one thing concerns me. Sometimes there are tasks in a
project that have to be completed before the date of the project
MLO on Android is compatible with the *Mybackup*
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupapp.
The free version of Mybackup saves to SD card which you can then copy to
dropbox, gdrive, etc. When you restore from Mybackup all your tasks come
back. I know that
Hi, Christian
There are many ways to manage a multi user environment. It would help to
know what you have in mind. My friend Olivier has covered some of the
possibilities.
Q. Can many users share a single license?
A. If you are using the free license you can get a license for everyone. If
you
Hi, Florian. You were pretty close.
The first problem is that the folder business contains two tasks that are
supposed to be completed in order. In many ways, a folder is just a special
kind of task. What makes a folder different from other tasks is that is has
no start or due date and it
Hi, Robert. In my experience MLO/Android asks for a profile on startup when
the previous session reached an abnormal end. If this is what's happening
to you, then it makes sense that it would happen even if you have only one
profile. The purpose is to avoid an error loop caused by a damaged
Hi, Joel. The MLO people have never promised to encrypt data-at-rest on the
cloud server, so you have to assume that it's stored in the clear.
Since you asked about access to private keys, I wanted to note that the sync
process does not require the server to see the content of any of your
, and they are not
collapsable/expandable. And some task can be make identity photos, for such
or such projet, what's the sense to have a context photobooth.
Olivier
Le mardi 26 mars 2013 23:22:29 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur a écrit :
If you want to have a task that’s aligned with multiple “areas
Hi, Richard. I'm familiar with the problem of tasks coming at me faster than
I'm able to set them up properly. My solution may not work for you as i have
never used manual sorting.
Every one of my tasks has one or more contexts. When I'm being overwhelmed by
new tasks I create them without
Hi, Mikhail. If you set the start date and time for a task to the same value as
your reminder date and time, the task would be hidden in any to-do list that
shows active tasks. Would that take care of this issue for you?
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Mar 5, 2014, Mikhail Marukhin
Unless there has been a recent unannounced change, security of MLO cloud sync
is established by optional SSL for data in transit and password security for
data stored at the cloud server. Users who find this level of security to be
adequate should ensure that they have enabled SSL(File
Hi, Nat.
There have been times when someone gets this error without there being any
actual problem, so it’s okay to go ahead and sync. There are other times when
it is the first clue of something serious happening, and gives you a chance to
avoid serious data loss. I am not sure that this
Hi, Jon.
hide branch in to-do actually means to hide the branch if view hierarchy is
disabled. The assumption is that to-do views have hierarchy off while
outline views have hierarchy turned on. This causes some confusion when
someone builds a to-do view with hierarchy on. One of the symptoms
have
the
answers and I think I need a bit (understatement) of handholding. Maybe
I
can pay you for your for your time. I'd be happy to .. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Jon
jonfischerphoto.com
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 2:14:32 PM UTC-5, Dwight Arthur wrote:
OK, I think I have this. It uses a technique
Hi, Olivier. I would probably agree with and strongly support you suggestions,
after kicking it around a while to see if any tweaks would increase the
usefulness and/or make it easier/faster/cheaper to build. But I see that Andrey
has announced a calender view feature that's still in
One way of doing this is documented
at http://stroyan.net/lisasblog/2012/mylifeorganized/ in the section on
daily maintenance. There are lots of other ways of handling it, most of
them very tightly related to the way each user manages his or her queue of
things to do.
-Dwight
On Thursday,
Hi, Crystal.
I see what you are trying to do and it sounds useful but I don't know how to do
it.
Next Actions shows the _first_ active task for each project, meaning the one
located at the top of an unsorted outline view. It really does make a lot of
sense for a setting to say I want 'next'
available for anyone to use.
Best
Jon
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:03:28 PM UTC-4, Dwight Arthur wrote:
Hi, Jon. Flattering offer but no thanks. Please go ahead and post
whatever you want to know on the forum. If I think I have expertise and I
find it interesting I will answer., when I get
Hi, Jason. I can't comment on your issue because I have no experience with
Windows 8. But it does sound like a bug. If you are not getting the answers
you need from this user forum, you could try reporting it to the support
people at MLO, by sending them an email at supp...@mylifeorganized.net
click a task, ability to see the tasks linked to one
task...)
I didn't put those requests on the user voice, but here, so I think they also
look at this forum, don't they ?
Perhaps the uservoice shoud have tags or even #tags ?
Olivier
Le vendredi 4 avril 2014 16:08:55 UTC+2, Dwight Arthur
Hi, Oliver. Maybe someone will have a suggestion. But I'd like to share with
you that I've tried to do this and I havent succeeded. This requires a feature
called something like location inheritance which is not implemented and not
scheduled.
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Apr 25,
Hi,Richard
If l understand you correctly, the issue is not whether text and flag filters
play well together. It's the need for the convenient and efficient ''text
search tool to access not only a task's own text but also the task's parent's
text.
Would you agree that you can easily build a
Hi, Joel. I think that it would be very reasonable for you to request
implementation of alternate complete on mobile platforms. Regarding your
question of whether this is a frequent need, my answer is, it depends. For
tasks within a repeating task or project it may be important that the
I agree with Olivier. However, if the parent were set up with scheduled
recurrences, you could use advanced settings for recurrence to specify yhat the
parent task will reoccur (which meant that it's complete) whenever all subtasks
are complete.
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On May 13,
Hi, Bastian. I'm not sure if this is relevant to your needs but you might try
putting the hard deadline as due date and the soft deadline as start date.
Nothing prevents you from working on a task before its start date, it just does
not show up on active task reports. It would be easy to create
Hi, everyone. Today is a holiday in the US and I should be doing yard work.
But my @Yardwork context is closed and my @Work context is open and my
TODAY view is full of stuff about getting the work week off to a good
start. I went in to the manage contexts window and set @Yardwork to
always
My friends like Basecamp, but see
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On May 31, 2014, Lisa Stroyan lstro...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a one time home project that is bigger and more complicated than
either my brain or MLO
/closed context, or is
that too many views to re-create? If you used inheritance perhaps?
On May 26, 2014 7:51 AM, Dwight Arthur m...@dwightarthur.us wrote:
Hi, everyone. Today is a holiday in the US and I should be doing yard
work. But my @Yardwork context is closed and my @Work context is open
Hi, Yury. I experimented a little and I found that sort subtasks is
grayed out in every view except for all tasks. In fact, I saved an exact
copy of all tasks and named it test1 and the option was grayed out in
test1 but not in AllTasks. So my suggestion would be: go the the actual,
original
Hi, Yurkennis.
I don't know anything about iPhone. But if I understand correctly, you can
export a view from Windows MLO and import it to iPhone MLO. So I decided to
see if I could solve this on Windows, with hopes that any Windows solution
would also be effective on iPhone.
I was able to
Lisa, I imagine that you are well aware of what I'm recommending below but
I thought I should add it to the conversation.
You talked about wanting to visualize the overall project as an aide to
understanding it and getting it organized. Two leading visualization
techniques (there are
it only once...Seemingly, there is no option for permanent rule? E.
g. sorted by Caption task starting from Z always goes to the bottom.
2014-06-02 6:43 GMT+04:00 Dwight Arthur m...@dwightarthur.us:
Hi, Yury. I experimented a little and I found that sort subtasks is grayed
out in every view
Hi, Sylvia. You have picked a great tool in MLO. One of the great things
about this tool is that it supports many different methodologies for task
management, and even allows you to invent your own methodology or to modify
an existing methodology to match up with how you are most comfortable
ball is coming at me more quickly, at this point.
Lisa (feeling overwhelmed :) / lstr...@gmail.com javascript:
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On 6/3/2014 11:06:41 PM, Dwight Arthur m...@dwightarthur.us
Lucas, I agree with you and it really is an MLO problem. It's just that it's
not a problem with mixed-mode sync. You can get the same problem with cloud
sync alone. Just change a task on windows and sync to cloud, then without
syncing Android make a change there. Then sync. One of the changes
why this isn't the case already.
On Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:42:13 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
Lucas, I agree with you and it really is an MLO problem. It's just that it's
not a problem with mixed-mode sync. You can get the same problem with cloud
sync alone. Just change a task on windows
inactive and will therefore auomtatically sync when it
has
focus.
On Saturday, 14 June 2014 02:29:23 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
Instant synch would be ideal, but there’s actually a little more to
it.
Whenever a changed record gets synched to the cloud there would need
to be
a way to push
Hi, Joel. I use Importance much like you do, to force tasks into a specified
order in certain views. I understand that this isn’t consistent with the way
that Importance was designed to be used in calculating the “computed score” but
I was never able to make computed score come out how I wanted
Daniel, please check, is this a typo or do you literally mean that MLO/Android
gave you a reminder in June 2014 for something supposedly happening 5 months
ago in January 2014?
Please look on your phone and desktop at this task and tell us the start date,
due date, reminder date and last
Hi, Elizabeth. If I understand correctly, I think Daniel is telling us that the
start and due dates in the phone and desktop versions of MLO match each other,
but that they are incorrect in both places. I believe that he is indicating
that the start and due dates were set correctly and that at
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