[MLO] Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided)

2014-11-25 Thread John Smith
Hello I am new to GTD and to MLO. I have been using a web-only app called GTDNext. But I am frustrated that there is no mobile app version. I am looking for a tool to automate GTD lists (David Allen) I am looking for a tool with the following features: 1. Extremely easy/fast data entry

[MLO] Newbie Q: How well does MLO match up to this?

2014-11-25 Thread John Smith
Hi I am new to GTD and to MLO. I have been using a web-only app called GTDNext. But I am frustrated that there is no mobile app version. I am looking for a tool to automate GTD lists (David Allen) I am looking for a tool with the following features: 1. Extremely easy/fast data entry

[MLO] How can I get the NEWEST listings to the top of the page?

2014-11-25 Thread John Smith
Hi Is there any way to change the weird sort order on this the Google Groups listing and and get the NEWEST postings to the top of the screen? It's quite irritating to have these old listings always appearing at the top! J

[MLO] Re: Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided)

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
purchase and now I'll just live with it. With any luck this dev team will get with the 21st century at some point. Then again I'm no longer holding my breath. J. On Monday, November 24, 2014 3:49:00 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hello I am new to GTD and to MLO. I have been using a web-only

[MLO] Re: Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided)

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
. Then again I'm no longer holding my breath. J. On Monday, November 24, 2014 3:49:00 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hello I am new to GTD and to MLO. I have been using a web-only app called GTDNext. But I am frustrated that there is no mobile app version. I am looking for a tool

[MLO] Android version of MLO - is there an more compact view??

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hi Is thee any way of getting a more compacted view of 'Outline' (and of 'Active Actions' etc.) ? There is FAR too much wasted vertical space. As things stand it is very close to being 'unusable' ! If not, I shall probably uninstall it. Either way is this planned for any future releases?

[MLO] Re: How can I get the NEWEST listings to the top of the page?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
OK I see that now. Apologies - I am new to GGroups. And for some reason Google doesn't seem to mark the pinned items up very obviously :^( J On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:13:30 PM UTC, Stéph wrote: Sorry John, but no. The posts you point to have all been pinned, so they stay at the

[MLO] Newbie Question: How do I get the keyboard focus back to the list in the center of the page?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hi Newbie Question: How do I get the keyboard focus back to the main list? e.g. If I am going through all my Actions to see which ones dont yet have a Context, I can filter on Contexts of (none). So then click on one of the Actions listed and then go to the Properties window and enter a

[MLO] Re: How can I get the NEWEST listings to the top of the page?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
In fact it's not quite so simple. Yes, some have been pinned but some are announcements. I have no idea what the difference is, however. But that is what initially confused me - the fact that they were not ALL pinned! J On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:13:30 PM UTC, Stéph wrote: Sorry John,

[MLO] Re: What is the Inbox? I have searched help, the manual and this forum. Confusing?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
I am confused - how do you get stuff out of the Inbox? Do you have to Drag and Drop? Or is there some way of changing its status to 'Active' ? On Saturday, November 22, 2014 12:40:16 AM UTC, John Cesta wrote: Yes exactly right. The inbox in mlo is like any other inbox. Study the mlo outline

Re: [MLO] Re: MyLifeOrganized for Android v.2

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Are there any other places where we can discuss MLO? On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:02:45 AM UTC, Joel Azaria wrote: I know. Typo. And this board won't allow to edit a post. J. On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:57:37 PM UTC-5, DJM wrote: 3 1/2 months since since early August for the

[MLO] Where is the best place to ask 'newbie' questions - here?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hi Where is the best place to ask 'newbie' questions - here? I don't want to pester people who are seasoned experts... J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

[MLO] Re: iPhone: Beta testers for custom views

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Why have you pinned items that do not work onto this Google Group?? Please correct this. On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:28:29 PM UTC+1, Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote: We plan to start beta testing for Custom Views on iPhone and iPad soon. As you know Apple allows us to have up to

Re: [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Strange - is there no way to forward your emails to a particular MLO email address? J On Friday, November 21, 2014 9:15:24 PM UTC, MkaGGL wrote: You can avoid the otherwise-necessary dragging Dwight quite accurately describes by using alwasy-on-top (web site here

[MLO] Feature Request: We need a 'Forced' Next Action to allow more than one Next Action per large project

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hello In the app I have just left (the rather good GTDNext), they have an incredibly useful feature called Forced Next. The idea here is that particularly on larger projects you do not want to be overwhelmed by seeing too many Next Actions on the screen at once. However although you want to

[MLO] Re: How to get productivity support?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hi Paula Are you applying GTD methology? This forum is driving me NUTS, btw because it is moderated in some way that stops my post from appearing. J On Thursday, November 27, 2014 10:18:31 PM UTC, Radiance wrote: Hi, I have owned MLO for over two years and I love it, but I dont seem to

[MLO] Re: How to get productivity support?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
, John Smith wrote: Hi Paula Are you applying GTD methology? This forum is driving me NUTS, btw because it is moderated in some way that stops my post from appearing. J On Thursday, November 27, 2014 10:18:31 PM UTC, Radiance wrote: Hi, I have owned MLO for over two years and I love

[MLO] Anyone tried Clear from Realmac Software?

2014-11-28 Thread John Smith
Hi Have any of you good people tried Clear from Realmac Software? I thought here on Clear are some impressively user-friendly ways of doing things, that future versions of MLO might do well to borrow ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx098UN_oG0 In someways it's probably not very 'GTD'... but

[MLO] Re: Default importance for a new task

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
An AutoHotKey script is one solution I suppose..., but surely it would be much better if us users were able to set this sort of thing up. For example I want to make all projects be Complete sub tasks in order so that I an get to see a list of NEXT Actions for each project, rather than ALL

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: How do I get the keyboard focus back to the list in the center of the page?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
. This shifts the view to the next tab and then back again, and shifts the view to the center in the process. *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 9:45 AM *To:* mylifeo

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
with contexts equal to #calls or #projects or #financials or #compliance or @work. Would this do what you want? -Dwight *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 2:45 PM

Re: [MLO] Re: How can I get the NEWEST listings to the top of the page?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Nov 26, 2014, John Smith shi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: In fact it's not quite so simple. Yes, some have been pinned but some are announcements. I have no idea what the difference is, however. But that is what initially confused me - the fact

[MLO] Re: Android version of MLO - is there an more compact view??

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Gotcha - thanks I take it you mean List view display mode, yes? In my defence, I did have a quick look but couldnt find it. My general suggestion would be to find a way to make the settings more obvious. e.g. To group them by category. And for this particular setting why not just make all three

Re: [MLO] Feature Request: We need a 'Forced' Next Action to allow more than one Next Action per large project

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
a template and then just create a new project from the template and it will come up with all the dependencies predefined. -Dwight *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 5:17

[MLO] Re: Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided)

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
PS. Re Point 8... Is there any hotkey way to give focus to the Importance and/or Urgency sliders on a task? This is an IMPORTANT requirement for me... ! J On Friday, November 28, 2014 10:26:06 PM UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: Hi, John. My answers are a little different from Joel's. Just to

Re: [MLO] Re: What is the Inbox? I have searched help, the manual and this forum. Confusing?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
, better methods, maybe another user will post some. -Dwight *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 4:48 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject

[MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Hi I have a question about Next Actions. Background: In alignment with GTD theory, and to prevent overwhelm, I generally like seeing only ONE Next Action (i.e. not the whole list of actions) per Project. For this reason I want essentially all my Projects to have Complete the subtasks in

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Dwight - I have been pondering your suggestion: In MLO, contexts can include other contexts. So you could have a contexts called “#calls” “#projects” “#financials” and “#compliance” and then create a context “@work” that included the other four. Call me unimaginative, but pretty much all

[MLO] Re: Newbie Needs Direction, Please

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Those screencasts seem to have disappeared. :( Are they still visible anywhere? J On Saturday, June 30, 2012 3:00:06 PM UTC+1, pottster wrote: If you haven't already, have a look at the introductory video on the website. It gives a good brief overview.

[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Area of Focus. The above applies to the Windows version - I don't currently use MLO on my mobile. Hope this helps Richard On Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:45:11 UTC, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind

[MLO] This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
Hello Can anyone tell me whether it is technically possible on Google Groups (assuming we must stay using it) to have our posts be visible immediately? And if so is it technically possible that we can EDIT our forum contributions. (As can be done on most modern forums including David Allen's

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
if the higher task is inactive/blocked. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Nov 29, 2014, John Smith shi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi I have a question about Next Actions. Background: In alignment with GTD theory, and to prevent overwhelm, I generally like seeing only ONE Next

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-01 Thread John Smith
by the Urgency Importance of the (just) one subtask which is left visible, compared to the Urgency Importance of the other subtask. This view does of course ignore the Urgency Importance of the actual projects though! Any suggestions? J On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:39:49 AM UTC, John Smith

Re: [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
Got it - thanks J On Monday, December 1, 2014 10:06:39 PM UTC, Henk Walraven wrote: Yes, this possible. In your cloud account, you can find the option 'task by email'. When your forward your mail to that address, then will appear in your MLO Inbox. -- You received this message

[MLO] Re: Anyone tried Clear from Realmac Software?

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
Windows Todoist does not appear to do automated NextActions. I also found it painful to enter text (although I didn't test it for very long). j On Monday, December 1, 2014 11:29:28 PM UTC, Henk Walraven wrote: I think ToDoist does a better job then Clear, I use that one next to MLO. The

[MLO] Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
Hi I have some newbie questions about Views: A) View's Icons Do the icons on the left of the View names *necessarily* MEAN anything? I mean: if I am creating a View from scratch, how can I add one of those icons? Will they appear automatically if I am doing everything right? I have tried to

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2014 10:19 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
at have to make a better view. -Dwight *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2014 10:19 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: [MLO] PROBLEM

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
PPS. I've thought of something - is there any way to make all Actions inherit their Importance Urgency from the Project? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

[MLO] Re: Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
Andrie Thank you - yes that's helpful. Meanwhile can you help me with this problem. I am trying to create a list of Next Actions - one per Project, but also sorted not each Action's own Importance, but sorted by the Importance of the *Project* to which each action belongs. And also to be

Re: [MLO] PROBLEM: ALL Next Actions of a Project disappear if the 1st Action in list has start date in future

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
P.S. Please see this thread. I may have found an answer... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mylifeorganized/fQXgrLjcOWk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

[MLO] Re: Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
a project, the project disappears from view. Drat!! Back to square one... :^( On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:23:37 AM UTC, John Smith wrote: Andrie Thank you - yes that's helpful. Meanwhile can you help me with this problem. I am trying to create a list of Next Actions - one per

[MLO] Re: Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-02 Thread John Smith
UTC, John Smith wrote: UPDATE: I have discovered a serious problem with the View that I built as described above. Which is that it is only showing Actions that are part of Projects. This means that Actions that have not (yet) been allocated a Project do not appear. And likewise when you

[MLO] Re: Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
If you think you may have changed the All tasks view, create a new workspace and experiment in the new one for a while. Confused - Do you mean create a new tab at the top of the page or start again with completely new data? OK I have selected all items and unticked the Complete subtasks in

[MLO] Re: Some newbie questions about Views

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
OK, I have now tried again. This time using a completely blank set of test data created from scratch using: File New New Blank File Create blank datafile with default contexts, flags etc. I have entered a few Projects and put Actions inside them. I have also created one or two Actions that

[MLO] Re: iPhone: Beta testers for custom views

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
... On Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:46:44 UTC, John Smith wrote: Why have you pinned items that do not work onto this Google Group?? Please correct this. On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:28:29 PM UTC+1, Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote: We plan to start beta testing for Custom Views on iPhone

[MLO] Re: Newbie question: How well would MLO match my requirements? (list provided)

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
Got it. Yes slightly clunky but it works :) Many thanks Dwight. BTW, I am am trying hard to follow the GTD methon but I am having a slight 'existential crisis' in how the heck to set things up on MLO. Is there anywhere with a gallery of completely different ways of doing things, hosted

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
Andrei I have now had a very good look at MLO and I can not for the life of me work out how you generated that image(!). Is that done through the standard All tasks view? What are those icons that look like baskets and why are two of them red? I am using Windows 7 (x64) and I can not find

[MLO] Re: Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
:45:11 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hello Newbie question: Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD Areas of Focus e.g. Work, Body/Mind, Life Learning, Relationships etc ? I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to say Work. Presumably this could be done

Re: [MLO] Feature Request: We need a 'Forced' Next Action to allow more than one Next Action per large project

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2014 5:17 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* [MLO] Feature Request: We need a 'Forced' Next Action to allow more than one Next Action per large project Hello In the app I have just left

[MLO] View showing Next Action with Project, sorted by Comp Score ... SUCCESS !

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
Hi I rather chuffed with this. My other threads got confused, so let's start this again BACKGROUND RE-CAP: I am been trying to implement GTD on MLO. And because David Allen suggests that we have (in practice) quite so many 'Projects' and because in GTD method you need to create a Next

[MLO] Re: View showing Next Action with Project, sorted by Comp Score ... SUCCESS !

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
UTC, John Smith wrote: Hi I rather chuffed with this. My other threads got confused, so let's start this again BACKGROUND RE-CAP: I am been trying to implement GTD on MLO. And because David Allen suggests that we have (in practice) quite so many 'Projects' and because in GTD method you

Re: [MLO] Re: View showing Next Action with Project, sorted by Comp Score ... SUCCESS !

2014-12-03 Thread John Smith
of it. Then I found a post somewhere saying that it’s the opposite of “for show”, perhaps similar to the concept “in real life”. Hmmm… *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Wednesday, December 03, 2014 10:31 PM

Re: [MLO] This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
to honey ratio accordingly... On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:31 AM, John Smith shi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hello Can anyone tell me whether it is technically possible on Google Groups (assuming we must stay using it) to have our posts be visible immediately? And if so is it technically

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
, December 4, 2014 7:14:16 AM UTC, Andrei Bacean wrote: My friend IMHO, you ask to many questions in one thread :) I will reply to the question about the icons. See attached image. The answer is there. Best regards Andrew среда, 3 декабря 2014 г., 23:39:16 UTC+2 пользователь John Smith

[MLO] Advanced Filtering rules - where can we find out more?

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
Hi Where can we find out more about the Advanced Filtering rules? There doesn't seem to be much in the either the MyLifeOrganized User's Guide.PDF or in the help that comes with the Windows application. Specifically I want to understand - How the AND and OR logic on successive lines works.

[MLO] Re: MLO Blog Post

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
Very cool J On Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:22:17 PM UTC, pottster wrote: Has everyone see the new blog post about the ios app developments? http://blog.mylifeorganized.net/ Something like this for desktop would be rather splendid. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO on Windows 8.1 and very high resolution screens

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
Historically I've always found it much better to run a monitor at it's 'native' resolution otherwise everything get blurred. Window has a fudge that allows you to change Set custom text size (DPI), which helps somewhat to make higher resolution monitors easier to read, however I found that if

Re: [MLO] This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
Lisa Your comment that MLO is more task management platform than task management system is, IMHO, absolutely spot on. That said, I notice that there are various different Templates that you can choose when creating a new MLO file and this in theory ought to go a long way to helping the

[MLO] Quirk: Next Action by Folder happening in Next Action by Project view.

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
Hi [ASIDE: OK I am still smarting... but apologies are accepted where given. From my side I am happy to apologise for my the *tone* of some of my earlier remarks. OK let's move on.] I have discovered a rather fundamental weirdness of the system. [Fwiw, in order to confirm this weirdness I

Re: [MLO] Quirk: Next Action by Folder happening in Next Action by Project view.

2014-12-04 Thread John Smith
...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2014 8:59 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* [MLO] Quirk: Next Action by Folder happening in Next Action by Project view. Hi

Re: [MLO] Quirk: Next Action by Folder happening in Next Action by Project view.

2014-12-05 Thread John Smith
these separately help me keep track of this problem. -Dwight *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:47 PM *To:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re

Re: [MLO] Email Newsletter

2014-12-05 Thread John Smith
Strange - I can't find my newsletter. May have been spam-filtered. The text implies that there is another way to subscribe other than being a registered user, but can anyone see where to do so on MyLifeOrganized.net? On Friday, December 5, 2014 2:24:23 PM UTC, Andrei Bacean wrote: Hi Dwight

Re: [MLO] Re: View showing Next Action with Project, sorted by Comp Score ... SUCCESS !

2014-12-05 Thread John Smith
Wow. Got it (I think). What would be nice much easier all round would if there was a tickbox on an item saying inherit Importance from Parent and another saying inhert Urgency from Parent. And that way life would be very much easier all round (!) Given that there is exactly such a thing for

Re: [MLO] Email Newsletter

2014-12-05 Thread John Smith
As you were - the Newsletter has just arrived with me. Lots of exciting-looking things coming along. :) Although if I understand correctly no calendar view thing for Android yet, though. Plus with finite resources no doubt it will be a while before anything much is done to the Windows

[MLO] Windows MLO: Columns in my Views keep reverting - bug ?

2014-12-06 Thread John Smith
Hi I have a problem with view columns that keep reverting. Seeming all of my Views (and one of them in particular) - are extremely frustrating because the columns are not in the sequence and position that I want. But every time I change them back to how I want them (and yes, then hit Save

Re: [MLO] Re: Windows MLO: Columns in my Views keep reverting - bug ?

2014-12-06 Thread John Smith
. When you save a view the changes now appear in all workspaces using the view. On Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:32:47 AM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hi I have a problem with view columns that keep reverting. Seeming all of my Views (and one of them in particular) - are extremely frustrating

Re: [MLO] Re: Windows MLO: Columns in my Views keep reverting - bug ?

2014-12-07 Thread John Smith
I will do my best to replicate the problem and we can see what happens. *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Smith *Sent:* Saturday, December 06, 2014 10:29 PM *To:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [MLO

[MLO] Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-08 Thread John Smith
Hello It is clear that new users and long-time users have very different requirements. I think it's important for the long-time users of MLO to have a place where they can have in depth, carefully considered conversation, normally having read the relevant parts of the manual about the

[MLO] Re: This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-08 Thread John Smith
if you post to the forum via the web interface rather than by email. On Monday, 1 December 2014 11:31:33 UTC, John Smith wrote: Hello Can anyone tell me whether it is technically possible on Google Groups (assuming we must stay using it) to have our posts be visible immediately? And if so

[MLO] Re: This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-08 Thread John Smith
, 1 December 2014 11:31:33 UTC, John Smith wrote: Hello Can anyone tell me whether it is technically possible on Google Groups (assuming we must stay using it) to have our posts be visible immediately? And if so is it technically possible that we can EDIT our forum contributions. (As can

Re: [MLO] Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-08 Thread John Smith
P.S. And on the New User's forum/group I would vote for the sort of moderation whereby if only people misbehave they are kicked out, and even then, if the infringement is only mild then they are merely sent warnings in the first instance. ​ -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[MLO] Re: Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-08 Thread John Smith
P.S. And on the New User's forum/group I would vote for the sort of moderation whereby if only people misbehave they are kicked out, and even then, if the infringement is only mild then they are merely sent warnings in the first instance. ​ On Monday, December 8, 2014 2:03:49 PM UTC, John

Re: [MLO] Newbie Question: Does MLO have 'Areas of Focus'?

2014-12-09 Thread John Smith
WITH CUSTOM EFFORT but without TASKS are hidden from the view.) I will be very busy next 2 weeks, and may reply with big delay Best regards Andrei четверг, 4 декабря 2014 г., 15:42:42 UTC+2 пользователь John Smith написал: Andrei OK got it. They are just folders but you have changed used

Re: [MLO] Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-09 Thread John Smith
Wait for an okay from the developers for any idea like Yes, agreed. This is exactly what I am doing. Hence I started this thread. What's clear to you is not at all clear to many of us who have actually been here doing this for years. What irony! With huge respect, I think part of the

[MLO] MLO use of English

2014-12-09 Thread John Smith
Hello Sorry - another new user question... I have realised that I am slightly confused about the MLO use of English. What is the exact definition of: A) Task ? B) Project ? C) Action ? D) Active Action ? E) Next Action ? Here is my best attempt at defining each of them: (please do correct me

Re: [MLO] Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
. On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:06:12 UTC, John Smith wrote: Wait for an okay from the developers for any idea like Yes, agreed. This is exactly what I am doing. Hence I started this thread. What's clear to you is not at all clear to many of us who have actually been here doing

Re: [MLO] MLO use of English

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
. But it does not qualify for a place among the group headers of the NextActionByProject view, because it does not contain any tasks that are next actions. It does not contain itself. -Dwight *From:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John

Re: [MLO] Re: Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
Dwight You have a valid point that I am no longer a total new user - valid up to a point. However unlike those who have been here for many years, the experience is extremely fresh in mind, believe me. In truth I bear the fresh wounds in my flesh from a vicious attack from the existing

Re: [MLO] Re: Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
not always follow where you are getting at when it turns more on the technical side of it, but I take what I can and try to make something out of it. Luc Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 2014-12-10 à 09:26, John Smith shi...@gmail.com javascript: a écrit : Dwight You have a valid point that I am

Re: [MLO] Re: Windows MLO: Columns in my Views keep reverting - bug ?

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
I'm not 100% sure what we're looking at in your screenshots, but yes that's the sort of thing. i.e. in the 3rd screenshot the Next Alert seems to have jumped in between the two dates for no reason. On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:30:09 PM UTC, MrCricket wrote: Screenshots for 1.ml:

[MLO] Re: Advanced Filtering rules - where can we find out more?

2014-12-10 Thread John Smith
Thanks both. Steph - Google says: Results: about 158 for advanced filter (!) Less urgent now in any case due to my having since then now done a couple of pivots, but I shall revert to this when in due course I shall no doubt be needing advanced filters again... J On Wednesday, December

Re: [MLO] Re: Suggestion: New Group (or new forum) for MLO new users?

2014-12-11 Thread John Smith
, John Smith wrote: Hello It is clear that new users and long-time users have very different requirements. I think it's important for the long-time users of MLO to have a place where they can have in depth, carefully considered conversation, normally having read the relevant parts of the manual

Re: [MLO] This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-12 Thread John Smith
In the past few weeks I have looked at various competing sites and this was the only software to have A) moderation that stopped new users from being able to post immediately and B) was the only site that didn't allow users to edit their own comments (yes even after other users had replied). And

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO Blog Post

2014-12-15 Thread John Smith
Personally although I am a strong fan of making MLO much more accessible and mainstream friendly, I see little or no need for that to involve either dumbing down or removal of features. And I worry that such arguments might be used to thwart genuine progress. Think of it like a motor car. If well

Re: [MLO] feature request: sync manual sort of todo list

2014-12-17 Thread John Smith
Oh dear. Well it's a start I suppose, but that means that you have to star something in order for any sort ordering to sync, yes? So did MLO actively decide to not sync the main sort order? If so I wonder why. For anyone using the main sort in any serious way the status quo is somewhat

Re: [MLO] feature request: sync manual sort of todo list

2014-12-17 Thread John Smith
, John. What do you mean by the main sort order? -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Dec 17, 2014, John Smith shiph...@gmail.com wrote: Oh dear. Well it's a start I suppose, but that means that you have to star something in order for any sort ordering to sync, yes? So did MLO actively

Re: [MLO] feature request: sync manual sort of todo list

2014-12-17 Thread John Smith
Andrei B 1.Please define your terms. How do you define query? 2. In Windows MLO, I have a number of what I am calling Views (ie I start with a View in the left hand column, I then change some of the filter settings, but not the Sort setting, then save as a new name). And then when I manually

Re: [MLO] feature request: sync manual sort of todo list

2014-12-18 Thread John Smith
Hi Andrei B Yes, on the disk will be the order in which the tasks were entered. And there will be some type of sorting in effect a sorting layer applied to the data to given you the sort order for the All Tasks button output. And if you apply a context filter the sort order is not changed, yes?

Re: [MLO] feature request: sync manual sort of todo list

2014-12-18 Thread John Smith
Hi All Let me try another tack and state where I am and how I am trying to use MLO. I am finding that entering individual Importance and Urgency for individual tasks seems to take too long... so I am trying to store the what I will call 'priority' (which roughly speaking I am using to mean a

Re: [MLO] Re: This forum - please can we have immediate visibility?

2014-12-20 Thread John Smith
my two penn'orth. Stéphane On Monday, 8 December 2014 14:09:41 UTC, John Smith wrote: Yes I just discovered that. Frustrating not to be able to edit but better than nothing. But how long do you have to deleted before it generates and email to everyone who has subscribed? Only a few

[MLO] Android MLO: how can I get a Next Action view?

2014-12-27 Thread John Smith
Hi Is it possible to get android MLO to show a Next Action view? If so how? In fact is it possible to edit/change MLO views whatsoever in Android? J PS Apologies for this being a newbie question. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized

Re: [MLO] Android MLO: how can I get a Next Action view?

2014-12-28 Thread John Smith
Oh well. [deep sigh] I do find this to be surprising as from a GTD perspective Next Action is arguably the most important of all views. But still if we can build our own views in the next release that would be a good start I suppose. (Not ideal for new users of course though!) For now

[MLO] How can I create a view showing my Projects sorted by JUST project-level Importance + Urgency ?

2015-01-26 Thread John Smith
Hi I want to create a view that shows my Projects sorted with the most Important and most Urgent projects at the top of the page. I want both Importance and Urgency to be equally weighted, however I do not want Due Date, Start Date, nor Weekly Goal to be used at all. And for ease of management

Re: [MLO] Re: How can I create a view showing my Projects sorted by JUST project-level Importance + Urgency ?

2015-02-03 Thread John Smith
task's importance and urgency in your own head to select a number representing overall priority of the task, and enter it into either importance or urgency (I use importance) and then sort by that field. -Dwight On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3:14:14 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: Hi I want

[MLO] Re: Useful link to MLO Shortcuts - (better than the MLO's own Help pages) - Wanna help maintain this?

2015-02-03 Thread John Smith
Andrei OK, I have added Ctrl L and called it Quick filter text box But what does Ctrl+Shift+L do? (It appears to do nothing on my MLO!) J On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 7:31:06 PM UTC, Andrei Bacean wrote: In the above post, the hotkeys are Ctrl+L and Ctrl+Shift+L I changed to

[MLO] Re: Useful link to MLO Shortcuts - (better than the MLO's own Help pages) - Wanna help maintain this?

2015-02-03 Thread John Smith
/Shift/Insert == New Folder http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/MyLifeOrganized.html Can anyone suggest any more? J On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 11:49:20 AM UTC, John Smith wrote: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-apwiClAZBNA/VMjMuxPud-I/ANw/oztPJomqjLk/s1600/delme_Google.gif

[MLO] Re: Useful link to MLO Shortcuts - (better than the MLO's own Help pages) - Wanna help maintain this?

2015-02-03 Thread John Smith
://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/MyLifeOrganized.html) other than a) It needs to be kept up-to-date b) the contents need to be as complete/comprehensive as possible. Anyone feel free to add to the page as you see fit :) J On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 4:57:04 PM UTC, John Smith wrote: Andrei Ctrl

[MLO] Re: Useful link to MLO Shortcuts - (better than the MLO's own Help pages) - Wanna help maintain this?

2015-02-05 Thread John Smith
PS What about Alt/Y ? MLO help says Toggle hide in todo but I can't get it to have any affect. :^/ J On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 11:57:21 AM UTC, John Smith wrote: Bump? Please can someone tell me what Alt/A does - or at least is supposed to do! In my Tools Options Hotkeys

[MLO] After doing Ctrl/F, what hotkey moves focus to the search results window ?

2015-02-05 Thread John Smith
Hi After I have done Control/F to do a Search (i.e. Find), is there a way to move focus to the Search results window using a hotkey? (i.e. other than by using the mouse) J P.S. Btw, I have added Ctrl/F and Ctrl/Shift/F to the Shortcut World page

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