Re: [MLO] Tracking Daily Activities to Encourage Habit Formation

2019-01-19 Thread Stéph
I like your style, Michael. On Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:49:36 UTC, Michael Emerald wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I did a similar thing by tracking how many accomplishments I did each > day. Then, each day I tried to up the previous days’ record. Here’s how I > did it: > >1. For those tasks

[MLO] Re: Lagging in 5.0 -

2019-01-22 Thread Stéph
257 is a pretty small list, so that shouldn’t be hogging resources or running slowly. I have to admit, I can’t remember the details of what I saw in my corrupted file. i just exported part of my current outline and looked at it in Notepad - not sure whether I’d spot an error or corruption, afte

[MLO] Re: What Formula Is Used for the Active Tasks List

2019-01-31 Thread Stéph
You can customise the view to sort by whatever criteria you want. I have my active tasks list sorted by due date, most of the time. On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:13:05 UTC, Andrei Bacean wrote: > > I guess the computed score is used to sort them. Tasks with higher value > are at top. > If tas

[MLO] Re: Icon Colors (or icon colours)

2019-01-31 Thread Stéph
I've just looked and it's not possible to extract the icons from the MLO.exe file I can't find them stored anywhere separately. It would be really good if Andrey could make the old icons available in a zip file on the MLO website (or on the icons thread on the MyLifeOrganized forum), so people

[MLO] Re: Ad hoc filter by context

2019-02-02 Thread Stéph
Hello Martin, Looks like you posted a duplicate of this question in another thread. Please see Dwight's comprehensive reply under your other thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!topic/mylifeorganized/TCG9gO5z2QY On Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:32:46 UTC, Martin Vobr wrote: > Hell

[MLO] Re: How to hide tab bar in MLO5 for Windows?

2019-02-05 Thread Stéph
I don't think that's possible. If you're really struggling for space on your screen and it's any help, opening a view in a separate window with F3 strips out everything taking up space, other than the outline list itself. However, you can't access the notes from that view. F12 ("full screen vie

[MLO] Re: Text Tag v Context

2019-02-05 Thread Stéph
Similar to flags, really, except that you can't assign an icon to a text tag and you can create new text tags on-the-fly. It means you now have three different ways of tagging items (along with hierarchy, dates, effort, importance, urgency), all of which you can use for whatever you want. Text

[MLO] Re: How to delete text tags?

2019-02-07 Thread Stéph
To be fair, it's not really necessary to press F5. Next time you start MLO, any unused text tags will be deleted from the list, anyway. In fact, I think it's helpful to have them a little persistent in the text tag window. That way, if you delete the last instance of a particular text tag but t

[MLO] Re: Hide Only Subtasks in Todo

2019-02-07 Thread Stéph
The only advanced filter term which hides a subtask based on something to do with its parent task is the "ParentName" filter. So, the only way I can think of doing this is to select a character or phrase to put in the parent name (eg "{hidesubtasks}"), then setting up an advanced filter in your

[MLO] Re: Date parsing in MLO 5 could be improved.

2019-02-07 Thread Stéph
Hello Joel. You can use speech marks to avoid keywords like "Wednesday" from being parsed. So, in your case, you could write the following and it would be parsed correctly: *"Ask Sharon if you are taking her car to the shop on Wednesday" today 7pm remind* Once you get a bit of practice at usin

[MLO] Re: Where do posts here end up?

2019-02-12 Thread Stéph
Hello Dan, Well, I can see this post, so I don't think you're having any problems with access to the Google Group. How did you report the bug? If you used the bug reporting link on the MLO website, that doesn't post to the discussion forum. All the bug reports get collected on a "Jira" website

[MLO] Re: [BUG] MLO forgets scroll position when switching among tabs

2019-02-13 Thread Stéph
Hello Dan, Try this: Right-click on the workspace tab and select "Set up workspace". Uncheck "Sync selection with first tab". (This assumes that your "All" view is in the first tab). Now you should be able to select an item in your House view without affecting the selection in the "All" view.

[MLO] Re: Attachments across devices

2019-03-03 Thread Stéph
Hello Nat, The links in MLO work on all devices, as long as your linked documents are accessible on a Cloud server or somewhere else on the Web. If you wanted a link to a locally stored file on both desktop and mobile, you'd have to have copies of the document stored in the same place on both d

[MLO] Re: Folder in Views

2019-03-07 Thread Stéph
Hello Luca, The answer is "Yes!" With advanced filters, you can do *almost *anything, if you think through the logic of the filter. If you want an All Tasks view which hides the inbox when it's empty, you can use the All Tasks view and add the following Advanced Filters (using Alt-F1 to show t

[MLO] Re: Advanced Editor for Advanced Filtering

2019-03-07 Thread Stéph
ot;Add sub-rule", it will behave weirdly: > > [X] > >[X] (empty) > > > > Where has my "NextReview" line gone? I can try to revert and delete the > empty sub-rule, but that doesn't work. All I can do is delete all rules and > start from s

[MLO] Re: PC Version with touch screen and task sort order

2019-03-07 Thread Stéph
Agree that this should be corrected. The normal, intuitive way of working on a touch screen is for swipe up and down to scroll. To select and move an item in the list, it should be necessary to touch and hold the item for 1/2 second, until you get some kind of visual feedback that you've selecte

[MLO] Re: MLO is great -- BUT

2019-03-12 Thread Stéph
Hello Jon, When you come back and see this, in a year, I'd recommend that you give it another go. This Google group isn't *the only *support, although it's a pretty friendly forum and we're happy to help out. There is a support email address, as well, and I've always found Alyona and Andrey resp

[MLO] Re: Using MLO as a quick, on the spot Journal

2019-03-12 Thread Stéph
For my journal view, I group and sort by modified date, so that I can see where I've edited an item's notes recently. My journal entries are often a date-stamped comment in the note against a particular task or project, to track progress on that task. MLO Windows has good shortcut keys for ti

[MLO] Re: start mlo on ios is too slow

2019-03-18 Thread Stéph
I'm using an iPhone 5s and, with a small MLO file, it takes 6 seconds to start MLO. Maybe you have lots of other apps open at the same time or maybe there's some kind of corruption to your installation? If so, you might want to try re-installing it. On Saturday, 16 March 2019 09:41:13 UTC, god

[MLO] Re: Added MLO to a Slant question

2019-03-22 Thread Stéph
Thanks for pointing me to Slant - What a great, well thought-out site! On Friday, 22 March 2019 12:01:25 UTC, André Bonhôte wrote: > > Hi all > > Have a look here: > > > https://www.slant.co/topics/5798/~task-management-tool-for-managing-many-projects-as-an-individual > > I added MLO a few minutes

[MLO] Re: List Completed Projects/Task for The Year

2019-03-22 Thread Stéph
Hello Dan, Have you tried setting up a filter using the Advanced Filters button? (If not, you need to show the Views and Filters pane on the left, which you can toggle by typing Alt-F1. You can then expand the filter details from the bottom and, in the Advanced group, check "Add Advanced" and c

[MLO] Re: Assignments

2019-03-27 Thread Stéph
Hello Andrea. If you sign up for the MLO online synch service (less than the cost of a coffee, files protected by the security of Amazon servers, but with no encryption during transport), then you and your partner can share an MLO file and both make edits to it and check tasks off. MLO is very

[MLO] Re: Project handling questions

2019-04-15 Thread Stéph
Hello Michel, Thanks for posting your thoughts. Welcome to MLO and to the forum. Here's how I deal with the three points you ask about: *1) Project Status: *Custom filters and views are easy to set up after a bit of practice, constructing them by setting up Advanced Filter rules. I don't have

[MLO] Re: How do I edit tasks names (Font, color)?

2019-04-23 Thread Stéph
Hello Shai, Assuming you're using the Windows version of MLO: Do you mean custom formatting of individual tasks? If so, you need to have the custom formatting commands visible in the Properties pane, on the right. To make those visible go into the menu and click on "View" - "Task Parameters" -

[MLO] Re: Custom flag autoformat assignment rules | Feature needed

2019-04-26 Thread Stéph
I'm with zel on this - If you only want to use the flag icons as a format to highlight items which particular contexts, tags, dates, etc, then you can use Tools - Options - Automatic Formatting. The Automatic Formatting rules can be used to assign any of the icons into positions 0-3 (note, I h

Re: [MLO] Re: Custom flag autoformat assignment rules | Feature needed

2019-04-28 Thread Stéph
develop, but some > would be useful for all of us, even though some workarounds works in some > circunstances, but many others don't. > > Stéph, you are right, but what I mean is a lack of a *Flag button* which > allows us to use in Autoformat Rules windows (options)...not

Re: [MLO] Re: Custom flag autoformat assignment rules | Feature needed

2019-04-30 Thread Stéph
Interesting ideas. I'm particularly interested in the idea of scripting to automate what I do and reduce the number of parameters I have to set manually each time I create a new task. On Monday, 29 April 2019 22:45:48 UTC+1, MG wrote: > > Hi Stéph, > > "In your example, y

[MLO] Re: Dynamically display completed subtasks of selected task?

2019-05-04 Thread Stéph
You've got me there! Usually, I can find an advanced filter combination to show what's wanted, but not in this case. On Saturday, 4 May 2019 08:42:27 UTC+1, Beat Ludin wrote: > > Currently, I can have all completed task show, or only the recently > completed ones, or none at all. > Is there a wa

Re: [External] [MLO] is there any way to insert the current date within task notes using keyboard shortcuts??

2019-05-07 Thread Stéph
Those two shortcuts are customisable to whatever key combination you want, under "Tools - Options - Hotkeys". I think the default for date is Ctrl+Shift+D and time is Ctrl+Shift+T, while date and time is F4. On Monday, 6 May 2019 14:22:28 UTC+1, Mike McCallister wrote: > > Actually, F4 gives you

[MLO] Re: Filter tasks due "this calendar wekk" i.e. "before or on next Sunday"

2019-05-07 Thread Stéph
Hello Christoph, Have you tried defining a filter with Advanced Filter parameters for that? One of the Advanced Filter options is "DueDateTime", which you can set to "this week". Stéphane On Tuesday, 7 May 2019 06:04:18 UTC+1, Christoph wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to filter for tasks due

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Parsing with Task by Email.

2019-05-09 Thread Stéph
Hello ToTheMoonAlice, Have you tried the portable version of MLO? I use that, along with a few other portable apps (VirtuaWin, FastStone Image Viewer, ReNamer, IcoFX, FDF Text Extractor, BulkFileChanger-x64). I shouldn't encourage you to use portable apps if that doesn't fit with your employer'

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Parsing with Task by Email.

2019-05-14 Thread Stéph
t; > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 4:51 AM Stéph > > wrote: > >> Hello ToTheMoonAlice, >> >> Have you tried the portable version of MLO? I use that, along with a few >> other portable apps (VirtuaWin, FastStone Image Viewer, ReNamer, IcoFX, FDF >> Text Extractor

[MLO] Re: Include only contexts starting with #

2019-06-02 Thread Stéph
Interesting problem. So you're grouping your filter results by Context. You can't sort by Context, as that field can have more than one value. Group by Context makes a result appear under whatever Contexts you have assigned to it, so it can appear multiple times. Because you're using Contexts f

[MLO] Re: How Do Updates to the Portable Version Work?

2019-06-03 Thread Stéph
I don't think it will update automatically. I'm a beta tester, so I've saved the link so I can download the zip file each time there's an update to the beta. I expect that you'll have to use the same process for the formally released version, every time there's an update to that notified: Downl

[MLO] Re: Project Statuses and Autoformat Rules

2019-06-05 Thread Stéph
Hello MG. Maybe you could give us a screenshot of the autoformat rule conditions and where the rule appears in your autoformat rules list? I don't think it's a bug, because I have been able to set font colours and icons for suspended and completed projects. Stéphane On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 23:

[MLO] Re: Zoom In VS Outline tasks order

2019-06-05 Thread Stéph
That's strange. On it's own, zooming in should not change the order of tasks in your view. You're not switching to a different, zoomed-in view which has different sort settings? What are the sorting and grouping settings in the outline view/filter you're using? On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 09:59:55

Re: [MLO] Re: Gantt-type representation of projects

2019-06-07 Thread Stéph
I feel your pain, Susannah. I've got to work out a nice, quick way of reviewing and archiving all my out of date or someday/maybe tasks, to get back control of my to-do list. On Friday, 7 June 2019 14:11:48 UTC+1, Susannah wrote: > Thanks. I haven't had much luck with the app bc I have too m

Re: [MLO] Re: Project Statuses and Autoformat Rules

2019-06-07 Thread Stéph
I think I've worked it out! Your rule is: (IsProject) AND (ProjectStatus=NotStarted) OR (ProjectStatus=Suspended) (I'm ignoring the extra brackets which you've got round the whole expression, because they don't sub-group any of the terms in it) The order of evaluation of logic terms is: NOT

Re: [MLO] Re: Zoom In VS Outline tasks order

2019-06-07 Thread Stéph
:). > Do you think MLO will add the ability to zoom out to the previous level > instead of the default zoom out to the root level? > This would be great. > Thanks, > Stevan > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:39 PM Stéph > > wrote: > >> That's strange. On it&#x

Re: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-15 Thread Stéph
Hello James. So, if a task starts on the coming Monday and is due on the Wednesday, are you expecting to see the same task listed in all of the groups under the heading’s Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday? If that’s what you’re expecting, I’m sorry that the view won’t show you that. Each task will o

[MLO] Re: Linux Support

2019-06-17 Thread Stéph
It would be good to get some text about the method into the MLO user manual, if you're willing to write out a step-by-step. (From a personal point of view, the latest Windows 10 update has broken my ability to access my NAS server. This is the "straw which breaks the camel's back" and I'm serio

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-17 Thread Stéph
sounds like James is talking about a whole different issue where the > task that has started in the next 7 days does not show up at all in the > 7day view. It doesn't because the due date is more that 7 days away, but > James is saying that it should show up because it needs t

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-17 Thread Stéph
like James is talking about a whole different issue where the >> task that has started in the next 7 days does not show up at all in the >> 7day view. It doesn't because the due date is more that 7 days away, but >> James is saying that it should show up becaus

[MLO] Re: Automatic reminder added to new tasks when they are created in the Today view IOS

2019-06-17 Thread Stéph
Hello John, I can confirm that behaviour. Of course, if you have your tasks *only *displayed by reminder, then the reminder *has to *be set for today in order for the new task to be displayed where you are in the Today view. If you're in that view looking at a day in the future, then it sets t

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-18 Thread Stéph
Well spotted, Nick! I've just tried out that filter and it looks like the start date filter overrules the "Action Filter" (the first rule at the top of the list). Even though the help file says that an "Active" task or and "Available" task is one with a start date now or in the past, it seems

[MLO] Re: Some advices about Mylifeorganized

2019-06-18 Thread Stéph
Hello Leichao Bai Full email address is support @ mylifeorganized.net (without the spaces). They've always been very responses to any support requests I've sent to them. Stéphane On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 06:11:19 UTC+1, Leichao Bai wrote: > > I hope there are other payment options, it is diffi

Re: [MLO] Re: Automatic reminder added to new tasks when they are created in the Today view IOS

2019-06-19 Thread Stéph
to all. > > James. > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Stéph" > > To: "MyLifeOrganized" > > Sent: 6/18/2019 1:59:19 AM > Subject: [MLO] Re: Automatic reminder added to new tasks when they are > created in the Today view IOS > > Hello Joh

[MLO] Link to file no longer working

2019-06-24 Thread Stéph
Hello Joel. I’m running the current beta version and both the right-click and Ctrl-Alt-F3 work fine for me. Might it be something to do with changing a hotkey assignment for the action? Maybe you’ve found a bug related to MLO trying to access a folder which you’ve deleted or renamed? Stéphan

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-24 Thread Stéph
Hell Alyona, James posted a reply by email, but it looks like it got attached to the wrong discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mylifeorganized/8561aZKKNu0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscri

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-27 Thread Stéph
Hello Dwight. Reasonability Test B doesn't agree with James' fourth line of criteria (the unnumbered one, which says "Those with no due date would be excluded from the list *as would all completed tasks*". So, if completed, a task won't show up in the list, whatever start and due dates are assig

[MLO] Re: What I really LIKE about MyLifeOrganized!

2019-06-28 Thread Stéph
Hello Tony, What I *really like *about MLO, is that it's possible to customise it so much, with loads of parameters, such as goals, contexts, flags, text tag, and with custom filters and views. I have a "journal" view which shows my most recently modified tasks. I also structure my outline by

[MLO] Re: Pop up Task Window

2019-06-28 Thread Stéph
Hello The Alsatian, Good news: It's already possible to do what you want, in the Windows version. You need to set up a tab with a view filtered to show "Unassigned Tasks" (maybe the predefined In Box view does that, for you?). You can then right click on that tab and select "open in new window"

Re: Re[2]: [MLO] Re: Tasks with start date in range not showing

2019-06-28 Thread Stéph
t; >> On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:40:49 AM UTC-4, James Woods wrote: >>> >>> Yes, that is correct. The purpose of the list is to specify which tasks >>> should be worked on. Completed tasks, by definition, would be excluded >>> from the list. >>

[MLO] Is there a way to set defaults for new tasks? Specifically review period?

2019-07-10 Thread Stéph
That’s a feature I’ve been campaigning for, for a long time. I’d like to see options for new items to include setting various parameters (dates, categories) to default values or to choose to inherit them from the parent or nearest sibling item. Hopefully that’s on a list and being considered fo

[MLO] Re: Question about focussing using Starred tasks

2019-07-16 Thread Stéph
I use the star, although I don't tend to use it on my recurring tasks - I just use alarms for those. One option might be to customise your "starred" view so that it only shows non-recurring tasks, or starred recurring tasks which are close to their due date. Stéphane On Tuesday, 16 July 2019

[MLO] Re: In a team environment...

2019-08-07 Thread Stéph
Hello Tom, If you try it and you get it to work, I'd be very interested to hear how it goes. At the moment, I'm using OneNote with Outlook for team collaboration, more and more. Tags are good for identifying tasks, changes, queries, etc in a project, because on the desktop version you can sea

[MLO] Re: Mac version of MLO)

2019-08-10 Thread Stéph
OmniFocus seems to provide the nearest functionality to MLO for Apple Macs. I believe it has a more rigid workflow, but it does provide you with project outlines, tags and filters. It might be worth looking into, while you're waiting for a Mac version of MLO. On Friday, 9 August 2019 04:28:57 U

[MLO] Re: MLO IOS version crashes when trying to open a locked profile

2019-08-20 Thread Stéph
Just a few thoughts:. If you haven't done so already, try shutting down MLO fully (double-tap the home button then swipe up on the open apps, including MLO) and then restarting it. You could also try a soft reset (ie not wiping data) on your phone, in case it's some kind of bug with the face-re

[MLO] Re: How do I export my data from MLO Android?

2019-08-20 Thread Stéph
If nothing in the outlines is sensitive, you could ask a user with the Windows desktop version to export it for you. I'm not an Android user, but assume that it has an option for emailing a backup copy, like the iPhone. On Monday, 19 August 2019 16:39:50 UTC+1, David wrote: > > How do I export m

[MLO] Re: Strategies for re-starting with MLO

2019-08-28 Thread Stéph
Hello Joel, I feel your pain! I, too, generated a huge file with various uncompleted tasks, thoughts and someday-tasks in my in-box and completed-but-not-quite-archived projects. I also dabbled with Post-It notes, on-screen Post-Its and switching some work projects to a OneNote-and-Outlook sys

[MLO] Is there any way to lock the sort on columns?

2019-09-05 Thread Stéph
Doesn’t locking the Workspace do just that, Joel? -- 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 an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this d

Re: [MLO] Desktop pro version - how can I sync with wifi on iPhone without paying for the app again on my device?

2019-09-06 Thread Stéph
It's an expensive initial cost, especially for the desktop version, but at least you're not forced into a subscription model. Unlike other task and time management software, the optional cloud-sync subscription model has a very reasonable cost. Overall, then, if you're going to use MLO for a f

Re: [MLO] Feature request for android app

2019-09-20 Thread Stéph
You're criticising too quickly, Guru. My understanding is that the mobile versions of MLO all have a different file format from the desktop version. Hence, a straight file sync would not work between MLO files on the different platforms. A common file format would need to be created, so that th

[MLO] Re: Themes and Formatting | Projects

2019-09-30 Thread Stéph
Hello M, I tried a few of these. Font bold property works for me, fine. Since colours are all fixed at whatever you select them to be, you have to make sure that contexts, description fonts, etc all contrast suitably, so that you can read them. I would recommend choosing a more subtle colour f

[MLO] Re: Feature Request for IOS version

2019-10-21 Thread Stéph
+1 to suggestion 1 - Folders get a specific icon, so why not projects? It's important to be able to identify my projects in the list view, rather than having to switch to a specific list view. Suggestion 2 sounds like an interesting idea too. On Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:12:18 UTC+1, chuckde

[MLO] Re: WYSIWYG printing MLO Views

2019-10-21 Thread Stéph
One day, I'm going to take the time to learn how to handle xml, so that I can import an MLO outline (or branch) and set up xsl style sheets to format it as I want, in MS Word or Excel. Has anyone on this forum already done that successfully? Stéphane On Monday, 21 October 2019 07:52:06 UTC+1,

[MLO] Re: Blog post: Task dependency

2019-10-23 Thread Stéph
Thanks, Alyona, that's a good explanation. I might start using task dependencies, now that I understand the feature. On Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:47:36 UTC+1, Alyona (MLO Support) wrote: > > Don't let secondary tasks distract you - set up task dependency. > Read in blog: > https://blog.mylife

[MLO] Re: Inheritance of Context

2019-10-29 Thread Stéph
Sorry Tandeep, but this is still just a feature request. There isn't any way to control inheritance of these parameters in the current version of MLO. On Tuesday, 29 October 2019 06:36:16 UTC, tandeep s sandhu wrote: > > Hello > > I have been trying to find a way that the context don't get copie

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Subtasks NOT required to inherit parent's context & start date

2019-10-29 Thread Stéph
Hello Tandeep. You've started another thread on this subject, too. As per my other reply, I'm sorry to say that no extra controls over inheritance of parameters have been developed recently. This is still a feature request. Thanks for bringing it back up to the top of the list of subjects in the

[MLO] Re: Feature advice: Is it possible to make outline into mindmap?

2019-11-06 Thread Stéph
Hello Kenny, If you export your outline as OPML, you can then view it in many mindmapping apps. The MLO app can also import OPML. However, the OPML format is quite limited and wouldn't support all the parameters which MLO can associate with a task. I've always wished for closer integration be

[MLO] Re: Does MyLO have an "Optionally Due" option?

2019-11-14 Thread Stéph
Hello Ken. In MLO, if you miss a due date the task becomes overdue. It's then a manual task to reassign a new date. The only other feature is recurring tasks, so once you check off a task it can regenerate straight away with the next date in the sequence, or it can be set to regenerate after a

Re: [MLO] Is there any way for "Completed Tasks Hidden" to be the default?

2019-11-18 Thread Stéph
The method explained by Susannah is pretty elegant, I think. If you double-click on a task in the todo list view, you get to see it in the first tab, the outline view. If you double-click it in the outline view, it shows it back in the flat, list view. That way, then, you can flick back and for

Re: [MLO] Customising MLO to setup for getting things done

2019-11-28 Thread Stéph
Hello Gary, Interesting thread. I haven't contributed so far, because I've set out my system (hybrid of GTD, with Steven Covey's 7 Habits for my planning) in other discussion threads. I'd point out that, while Importance and Urgency are meaningless to the GTD system, there will be people who u

[MLO] Re: Basic Questions MLO

2019-12-02 Thread Stéph
Welcome, Firstmon Lastmon 1) This is a way to show your tasks alongside your calendar appointments, to see if you have enough time to get all your tasks done. Some people put calendar appointments in MLO, but I wouldn't advise it. A calendar is for fixed events, whereas a task list is to show y

[MLO] Re: Update on dark mode?

2019-12-10 Thread Stéph
No recent betas. It's strangely quiet from the MLO team - I'm hoping this means they're working on something exciting (maybe all or some of the enhancements I've suggested...? ;-) ) Stéphane On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 06:49:46 UTC, Eric Gooch wrote: > > Bump. > > Do any of the recent betas hav

[MLO] Re: How to set Tasks inherit parent Folder

2019-12-19 Thread Stéph
Hello Michel, Starting from the top of the menu: 1. Tools - Options - Themes and Formatting, then press the edit button. 2. Select the "Tree format" tab in the pop-up window. 3. Select the "Selection" sub-tab. 4. Select your colours - You can have a different colour for when the

[MLO] Re: How to set Tasks inherit parent Folder

2019-12-20 Thread Stéph
on about themes color is >> here link >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/mylifeorganized/gB8_wIzsXCs> >> . >> > > > Thank you Stéph, > > From my testing, that option is for selected item, no the item under the >

[MLO] Re: How to change highlight color under the cursor?

2019-12-20 Thread Stéph
For some reason, Google has decided to move all the replies to this post so they sit under the topic "How to set Tasks inherit recurrence "Folder parent"", instead of being in this thread. Ah well On Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:06:08 UTC, Michel wrote: > > I am trying to setting the dark t

[MLO] Re: Bolden the Active Row

2020-01-01 Thread Stéph
Hello Hugo, For the selected item, you can change the background colour, give it a border or change the font colour, but you can't change the font to bold or italic. To change the selected text font colour (which is about the nearest to what you want to do), go into Tools-Options-Themes and Fo

[MLO] Re: Not started project showing up as active action

2020-01-07 Thread Stéph
I agree with you. The parameters are all independent and have to be set individually, which means that MLO needs a lot of mouse clicks / taps to adjust the status of a task or project. I'd much rather see tasks' statuses and times being dependent on the status of their project. However, other

[MLO] Re: Assign a task to a person

2020-01-16 Thread Stéph
You can't send tasks to other users of MLO, as far as I know, but there are ways to tag a task to note that it's assigned to another person. Some people set up categories or flags with people's names. My personal way is to assign a category called @WaitingFor and then put the person's name at

[MLO] Re: My 'FILTER on FLAGS' stopped working

2020-01-18 Thread Stéph
It's working fine in my copy of MLO, whether I show as a hierarchy or a flat list. I think it's most likely you've got some other filter criterium which is causing everything to be filtered out. Maybe the best thing is to create a new filter, starting from a full hierarchical or flat view and t

Re: [MLO] Feature needed - Add Parent Task

2020-01-20 Thread Stéph
Add parent is rare in my workflow, too. I tend to press the left arrow button to go up to the parent level and then press Ins to add a sibling - I don’t find that combination of actions particularly slow or cumbersome*. Still, if other users find it essential, it wouldn’t hurt to add it, I guess

[MLO] task description get's truncated/corrupted

2020-01-21 Thread Stéph
That sounds strange. You must have some kind of corruption to the file, or to the synch data so that it overwrites new items with old. I’d be tempted to reset things: save a backup copy of your file after corrections, maybe also export to xml and then open it in a text editor to see if you can

[MLO] Re: Qu. about recurring tasks not showing until the next day

2020-01-24 Thread Stéph
Hello Christopher, If you set the task so that the start and end date are today, then set it to recurr "Daily" and choose "Every 1 day(s)", then checking it off will change the start and end dates to tomorrow. Since the start and end dates are both after today, the task won't be defined as "Act

Re: [MLO] Re: My 'FILTER on FLAGS' stopped working

2020-01-24 Thread Stéph
ack to 'Yes' they work > > So How do I start with a Flat View or Plain List?? > > I appreciate your thoughts. > > I may also just save everything, and uninstall and reinstall MLO. > TS > > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 8:37 AM Stéph > > wrote: > &

[MLO] Re: Can you make contexts easier to scroll in windows desktop?

2020-01-24 Thread Stéph
+1 on this request. Some of the software libraries used in the MLO desktop are starting to look a little bit dated, I guess. I don't know how much cost and effort it would take to update the user interface, though. On Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:26:25 UTC, Richard Emes wrote: > > I can right

[MLO] Re: task description get's truncated/corrupted

2020-01-24 Thread Stéph
; Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2020 10:16:22 UTC+1 schrieb Stéph: >> >> That sounds strange. You must have some kind of corruption to the file, >> or to the synch data so that it overwrites new items with old. I’d be >> tempted to reset things: >> save a backup copy of yo

[MLO] Re: WiFi sync when IP changes

2020-01-28 Thread Stéph
I agree. Unless you set up your computer with a static IP address, it becomes are real pain to have to keep setting up new synchs. In the end, I stopped synching to the dynamic IP address at work and only ever synched to a static IP I set up at home... until my employer added more layers of sec

[MLO] Re: WiFi sync when IP changes

2020-01-28 Thread Stéph
On a positive note, though, MLO has pretty robust conflict resolution features, so I never lost any information when reconfiguring WiFi synch. On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:33:22 UTC, Stéph wrote: > > I agree. Unless you set up your computer with a static IP address, it > becomes are

[MLO] Re: Remove "inherit parent dates" as a default

2020-01-31 Thread Stéph
Hello JELPHD, It's functionality which needs to be requested. MLO defaults to inheriting context and dates from the parent, until you alter them manually (or unless you write dates and context into the new task description and hit Alt-Enter to parse that information). I've posted on a few thre

Re: [MLO] Re: Remove "inherit parent dates" as a default

2020-02-02 Thread Stéph
agreed! On Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:48:58 UTC, Hugo Sharp wrote: > > Trees Steph this would be a wonderful addition. Mandatory date inheritance > for me is more often an annoyance than assistance. > > Hugo > On 1 Feb 2020, 12:48 AM +1000, Stéph >, > wrote: >

[MLO] Re: Importing tasks from TickTick

2020-02-02 Thread Stéph
It doesn't look like there's an easy way. The manual and help files don't mention any way of exporting or archiving a list from TickTick.com. It looks like it's one of those apps which holds your data hostage in a proprietary format / site. Your best bet might be to print to pdf and then copy t

[MLO] Re: Time to setup EVERYTHING....

2020-02-04 Thread Stéph
Hello Nigel. I can't really measure how long it took to get my system right, because it was done in a series of improvements and tweaks (as all good development projects are). In fact, I think that MLO is probably quite perfectionist-unfriendly, because you can spend too much time modifying eve

[MLO] Re: database

2020-02-06 Thread Stéph
Hello Edward, It's a bit hard to follow your post. Do you mean that you have an MLO outline which you use to catalogue videos? Why not just email the outline to yourself while you're still in China, so that you can open it on your Windows 7 laptop and continue cataloguing new videos in it? If

[MLO] Re: Amending recurring tasks

2020-02-14 Thread Stéph
No direct way. However, if the task has an alarm, it can be snoozed. One work-around. If you have to change the due date because of something else, then maybe the recurring task needs a dependency to be set up for whatever is keeping you from completing it on Monday? Another thought - If you *c

[MLO] Re: How to show the to-do list tab?

2020-02-24 Thread Stéph
Hello A. Astinbo, If you don't have a to-do list tab for your outline file, you'll have to create one. Here's some guidance for doing this in the PC desktop version of MLO: The tabs bar is just under the menu in MLO. At the right-hand end is a "+" button, which you can use to create new Worksp

[MLO] Re: Using MLO as a logbook

2020-03-05 Thread Stéph
I do something similar, but not quite the same. To track what I've been doing over the last few days (for timesheets, etc), I have a "journal". I use the "date modified" rather than the "date created", so if I add a line to a task note, it updates where it sits in the journal. Stéphane On We

Re: [MLO] New to MLO Android, Inbox confusion

2020-03-09 Thread Stéph
Hello Ed, MLO has been designed with flexibility in mind, rather than ease of use. There are no predefined relationships between the different parameters assigned to an item and you can set up a system in which you use contexts, flags, due dates, folders, outline hierarchical structure, import

[MLO] Re: Possible to undo synchronization?

2020-03-10 Thread Stéph
Hello Andy, I'm afraid that depends on whether you set up automatic backups. That option is available in MLO's menu under Tools - Options - Backup. I'm not aware of any way to reverse a sync, other than to reload a backup file. On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 19:15:24 UTC, Andy Johnson wrote: > > I w

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