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

2018-06-07 Thread imajeff
I won't forget the best part of MyLifeOrganized is the engine that determines what to show and the order in the ToDo list. It is like a secretary going over my whole structure of projects and letting me know what is my next steps. Really great, thanks! On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 5:20:23

[MLO] Re: MLO Cloud or Wifi-SYNC? Privacy concerns

2018-06-12 Thread imajeff
gt; Op maandag 11 juni 2018 23:14:02 UTC+2 schreef imajeff: >> >> Since https does encrypt your tasks over Internet, what kind of attack >> are you worried about? And since they use Amazon services it seems it might >> be encrypted on the server storage too, and otherwi

[MLO] Re: Permissions and Cloud sync problems/errors

2018-06-12 Thread imajeff
I'm starting to worry that you are trying to do Cloud sync but you don't have MLO Pro installed? On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 11:07:23 PM UTC-6, Teek Bikos wrote: > > No, I suscribed to Cloudsync, so wherever it tries to save is where I have > no permissions. -- You received this message

[MLO] Re: Make forum instead of Google Group

2018-06-13 Thread imajeff
Ok I think the first step would be you create the group (I like Discourse), as an unofficial thing. Then if it gets organized and looks good it will be easier to convince the official MLO people to start using it. On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 7:55:02 AM UTC-6, Klaus wrote: > > I read this topic

[MLO] Re: MLO 5 Feature Request: Implement date parsing across the board in MLO

2018-06-13 Thread imajeff
Certainly the GTD way requires rapid entry to the Inbox, and date parsing would help throw a due date in there although I point out that in GTD you just rapidly enter short tasks and there is another stage where I review each task and decide whether there are dates involved with it. Two things

[MLO] Re: Offtopic: Email

2018-06-13 Thread imajeff
I hear a lot about using Outlook with this, although I don't have it. I use MLO to refer to email but I don't integrate it like dragging an email as a task. I also don't like to be trapped in a certain system like Outlook but my system allows me to use whatever email client as available. To

Re: [MLO] Re: Make forum instead of Google Group

2018-06-13 Thread imajeff
Sir you said "advantages over forums", then you listed only things that are also true about modern forums. Now you say it would split us to make the forum. How many active users do you think there are here? If we got half, say 3 users moving to the forum, that would be insignificant compared

[MLO] Re: Moderator:

2018-06-11 Thread imajeff
I just tried it recently and noticed that the only delay I saw was waiting for the email from mailing list. I can immediately see my message I posted on groups.google.com So at least right now I'm not really being delayed by moderating. On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 12:25:46 AM UTC-6, Darryl

[MLO] Re: MLO Cloud or Wifi-SYNC? Privacy concerns

2018-06-11 Thread imajeff
Since https does encrypt your tasks over Internet, what kind of attack are you worried about? And since they use Amazon services it seems it might be encrypted on the server storage too, and otherwise securely protected by a very large and resourseful company. On Monday, June 11, 2018 at

[MLO] Should I upgrade from much older version 2

2018-05-26 Thread imajeff
I have MLO Professional 2.0.0 and I am wondering if it's worth upgrading or using it as is. Could I get any discount upgrading to 4.4.x? What's important to someone that I would be missing if I keep using 2.0? Is there a way to get the latest 2.x update if I keep using 2? Thanks for any

[MLO] need updates for older version

2018-06-01 Thread imajeff
I have MLO Pro 2.0.0 but I had disappeared from computers for a while. Now is there any way to download existing updates for v2? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[MLO] Re: WiFi sync and changing IP addresses

2018-06-01 Thread imajeff
I have MLO 2.0.0 Pro for Windows and I thought it brilliant that I can sync a ml file on Dropbox. However, I need to open that file on Android but the MLO there has no option to open a file..? On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 5:44:16 AM UTC-6, grizz wrote: > > +1 > > Moreover the best solution

[MLO] Re: How to enter context in the caption/title field; parsing

2018-08-01 Thread imajeff
OK besides typing @Home (no space because that's the name of the context including the @) I found that by default, parsing input like "Send report to Jim next Monday 6pm" is turned off. Click the Options>> in rapid text entry dialog to see the options. On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 1:22:55

[MLO] Is one Android license included with Pro for Win?

2018-07-25 Thread imajeff
I'm sure someone said if I buy Pro that it would include license for MLO on my Android phone also. I cannot find it mentioned on the site so is it possible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[MLO] Re: I can't WiFi sync with MLO PRO 5, and Android

2018-08-26 Thread imajeff
This information might help a lot: What is your IP address of the desktop running MLO which needs to be sync'd What is your IP address of the Android device trying to sync On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 1:25:12 AM UTC-6, Luis Fernando Franco wrote: > > Let's see, in this page >

[MLO] Re: Best practice for ToDo views and prioritization approach

2018-07-03 Thread imajeff
I've noticed some are puzzled why tasks can be grouped different ways that might seem redundant. Folders, subtasks, or contexts. Here is the simple difference I see: Folders are for organizing when you are creating tasks. That helps you work on editing just the ones for family, work, etc.

[MLO] Can I try the Cloud Sync before I buy?

2019-05-06 Thread imajeff
I purchased MLO Android and I need to decide if it is worth buying the whole package yet, Windows and Cloud Sync. So far I can only find any details about cloud sync by waiting for people to complain here how bad it is. Is there not any way to trial this to see if it is for me, while I am

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

2021-05-16 Thread imajeff
I bet they don't even pay you for all this work you do, but thank you for sharing it with us. I bought MyLifeOrganized before 2.0, I guess it didn't even have a version number. Checking back the past few years I was shocked that they have improved absolutely nothing that would benefit me. I

[MLO] Re: Synchronization problems across multiple devices

2021-06-28 Thread imajeff
I'm wondering if you are talking about "Wi-Fi Sync" instead of the "Cloud Sync" that Dwight is talking about. Completely different things, and the wifi sync is what I use because I only want to sync at home and when I'm ready because it is not automatic, and does not send my data to a cloud

[MLO] Re: WiFi Sync locar or remote: why not both?

2021-09-14 Thread imajeff
I'm not happy either, basically they abandoned development of WiFi sync and I think it is because they could make a little money doing cloud sync instead so they tried to make it better. Sure it's low cost in some people's perspective but I do not do cloud sync because of my security needs in

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

2021-10-21 Thread imajeff
Do you realize how old MyLifeOrganized still is, I'm sure it's based on MFC, using Windows 98 technology wherever possible. It would not be like them to create a whole new cloud-based application, but if they did, you would be paying by the month not for installation license so it is a whole

[MLO] Re: Change Wifi Sync to LAN Sync [Feature Request].

2021-12-23 Thread imajeff
Certainly, what they called "WiFi Sync" is a misnomer. It just requires that both the host and device syncing be on the same LAN. At first I thought your request was that they start calling it what it literally is, "LAN Sync" so I really hope they will change that name. There actually is a

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

2021-12-18 Thread imajeff
First I will say, Stéph is right about what you will need when there is emotional reasons, or dangers, in getting the task done. Now, the most powerful thing I have found in MLO is how a task can be broken up as much as you need it. This is extremely important for me because of my neurology,

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

2021-11-18 Thread imajeff
on >> Apple, Windows and Android, but would prefer an equivalent monthly sub >> together with a webapp. But I also like knowing I can keep the app versions >> I have paid for forever! >> >> On Friday, 22 October 2021 at 02:30:14 UTC+1 imajeff wrote: >>

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

2021-11-16 Thread imajeff
t; Apple, Windows and Android, but would prefer an equivalent monthly sub > together with a webapp. But I also like knowing I can keep the app versions > I have paid for forever! > > On Friday, 22 October 2021 at 02:30:14 UTC+1 imajeff wrote: > >> Do you realize how

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

2021-11-01 Thread imajeff
Dwight now I'm confused because no post I see on this thread forgot to specify that the parser should never assume a day already completed. They say, "after today" and "future". I think in the parser, "next" should not assume whether it should mean next week or two from now, but there should be

[MLO] Re: Huge problem with database!!! Bug !?

2021-10-27 Thread imajeff
I hope you have backups turned on in the desktop version. In General Application Options I found mine is set to keep the last 6 backups so I hope it works for me, because I saw a few people lost their whole thing because of something that should not have caused a problem like upgrading MLO.

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

2022-03-14 Thread imajeff
I've wanted many improvements to recurrence for over 10 years, and what would help most is first implement a scripting language that has control of manipulating everything. Scripts could be triggered by many events, and therefore could help define exactly what kind of recurrence I need in my

Re: [MLO] Re: MLO has become incredibly slow.

2022-03-09 Thread imajeff
ART of OneDrive or Google Drive, >because the sync process takes too long and leaves your files open to >corruption. Stick to those smaller flash drives. > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:54 AM imajeff wrote: > >> Alos maybe you can configure the flash drive to

[MLO] Re: MLO has become incredibly slow.

2022-03-09 Thread imajeff
Alos maybe you can configure the flash drive to be cached so files read faster after the first read. It is usually optimized differently just to make sure it doesn't corrupt the FAT if you remove without unmounting On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 5:56:51 AM UTC-7 jefft...@gmail.com wrote: > I am

[MLO] Re: Round Robin/shuffling on recurring of subTasks of the Task on day

2022-02-23 Thread imajeff
Could you describe an example of a tree structure and how it would act for maybe a couple of cycles? I know what all the words mean that you said, but still couldn't visualize how it would work or a possible use case. It almost seems like you are just saying could it randomize the order of the

[MLO] Re: MLO has become incredibly slow.

2022-02-28 Thread imajeff
I hoped it would not be because most posts are awaiting moderation from someone who is in Ukraine and could be unable to work online? I pray for those under repeated attacks. Nobody has time for war--I would think, but I'm trying to put things into perspective after realizing my inconvenience

[MLO] Re: MLO has become incredibly slow.

2022-03-03 Thread imajeff
OK that is a good point: MLO must be doing a lot of accessing of the .ml file so if it was accessed over a windows file share (\\host\path) then just a little extra time to read each task could add up to running a lot slower... Google Drive helps assuming you use the desktop software that keeps

Re: [MLO] How the MLO team is working during the war and what our plans are

2022-04-04 Thread imajeff
Please start new topic with proper subject and I have input on that when you do. But it does not belong in this thread, which is the MLO team showing they have not stopped working because of the war. They are not giving up! On Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 12:02:41 PM UTC-6 devsi...@gmail.com

[MLO] Re: problem

2022-04-12 Thread imajeff
Sorry first I posted it wrong on another computer, so it replied to the whole digest.. Here is the message repeated in this thread and I wish I could just cancel the other one two seconds after I emailed it. Specifically the most important file of all is the .ml file on the last computer where

[MLO] Re: FOR FANS: private donation

2023-10-17 Thread imajeff
On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 2:06:41 PM UTC-6 A. W. wrote: > Hi imajeff, > > According to *Tony Robbins*: *“Knowing is not enough! You must take > action.”* > My suggestion is :) ... for you and for everybody "wondering" too - follow > the steps: > >1. donate

[MLO] Re: FOR FANS: private donation

2023-10-18 Thread imajeff
nitiative right >> now can also use my approach. >> >> On Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 11:09:38 AM UTC+2 A. W. wrote: >> >>> Hi imajeff, >>> >>> Fully agree on the scam-check! Rest assured, it is fully aligned with >>> the MLO-team

[MLO] Re: FOR FANS: private donation

2023-10-10 Thread imajeff
Seems like a good idea... I've wondered how easy to make sure it gets to the right people On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 2:06:19 PM UTC-6 A. W. wrote: > Hi, > > I am a longtime user of MLO and thought - lets see if we can help > > For this i created: https://gofund.me/aa2aaf5d. > *This is no

[MLO] Re: FOR FANS: private donation

2023-10-20 Thread imajeff
> tiny bit. ;) > > And about taking of - for me it is about the tiny little action to a) *donate > (*https://gofund.me/aa2aaf5d*) *and b) *tell the story *to others in ones > network - thats all. > Just as a thought. > > Happy days -A > > imajeff schrieb am Mittwoch, 18.

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

2022-05-16 Thread imajeff
ts the start date to "today" and the due date to > the same as the nearest sibling...). > > On Monday, 9 May 2022 at 22:38:04 UTC+1 kunk...@gmail.com wrote: > > I gotta' agree with Jeff... Strong scripting abilities would be amazing! > And yes, it would take ca

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

2022-05-31 Thread imajeff
n >>>> easily visually see correlation between planned task/event and the time >>>> that they "fill" >>>> >>>> I would like to see also a "day remaining counter" in columnsi know >>>> is already possible to see them

[MLO] Re: Bug / Missing feature - hierarchical sorting

2022-05-31 Thread imajeff
/prnt.sc/f6d-zaoer17E>: Filter -> > Group -> Sort -> set sorting to (None). > > We agree that this should be clearer, and we will consider improvements. > Thank you for the comments, we really appreciate them. > > On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:59:52 PM UTC+1 imajeff wrot

[MLO] Re: Bug / Missing feature - hierarchical sorting

2022-05-27 Thread imajeff
By clicking "Discard changes" (here > <https://prnt.sc/3d4D1jCV7EYA>is the screenshot) you should be able to > get to the original outline if you previously saved your view. > > On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 10:56:01 PM UTC+1 imajeff wrote: > >> Now my order

[MLO] Re: Bug / Missing feature - hierarchical sorting

2022-05-19 Thread imajeff
Now my order of the outline is all messed up because I thought, "no way it would mess up the order when I carefully created tasks in the logical order I need in my outline!" Why would anybody want to mess that up? And is there any way to get my original outline back after it changed top level

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

2022-06-22 Thread imajeff
Well, Context was of course intended to be locations or whatever already (it just has to be switched by hand when you want to see only that context) so the only difference with the new kind of context called "location based" is if the device running MLO has it's own GPS and MLO has the API to

[MLO] Re: Windows MLO folder in OneDrive

2022-05-21 Thread imajeff
I keep my mlo file in the OneDrive folder, and I have not had any trouble keeping it sync'd both ways. When ever MLO syncs with the cloud, then it modifies the file and of course when OneDrive detects a change, it syncs that with the onedrive cloud. The only trouble I know is multiple users,

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

2022-05-24 Thread imajeff
A relatively simple improvement is to make some visible indication on the check box the moment you click to complete a recurring task. Many times especially when I was new at this, I would click the task, see nothing happen, and click it again several times (it is actually normal for me to

[MLO] Re: "skip occurrence" sometimes missing

2022-05-02 Thread imajeff
No, Rebecca specifically said " on some recurring tasks" and every task I set up as recurring, in Windows 10, they could be skipped by a menu option. I would also need to make sure they are past due for testing, since that was specified. Since I haven't seen it not work, I wonder if it is not

[MLO] Re: Task Properties in Android - bug?

2022-05-10 Thread imajeff
I'm not sure if you meant this, but when I long-press, it opens another line with some of the property options. Then, tapping the dots at the right of it will open all properties On Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 2:15:46 AM UTC-6 edo@gmail.com wrote: > How do I view a multi-line properties field

Re: [MLO] Lagging on entry problem

2022-05-09 Thread imajeff
view is that everything MS is bloaty inefficient and > self-serving (esp. how the processes multiply e.g. Teams - when it is doing > literally nothing...! - today 'Edge webview' - again uncommanded and > unwanted). > > End of Moan. > > > On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:35:57 PM UTC+1

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

2022-05-09 Thread imajeff
I see frequent suggestions which would be very practical if we first had the most important feature of all: We need scripting! It is related to the suggestion MLO needs an API, and the bottom line is the longer you keep adding extra code to have more and more features, the more bloat,

[MLO] Re: "skip occurrence" sometimes missing

2022-05-04 Thread imajeff
I don't get it, I'm using 5.1.4 (latest) and I had only tested daily, making it reoccur every 1 day(s). I always has the "Skip occurence..." option and by always I mean that even if the task is not reocurring at all, I still have the option! Exactly how could I recreate this? If I click Skip

[MLO] Re: "skip occurrence" sometimes missing

2022-05-05 Thread imajeff
Oh now I see; what both Rebecca and Nick were not saying is *where* they expected to see "skip occurrence" so they did not mean in the Task menu or right-click menu which was the only place I could find it recently. You meant a 'link' in "TIming & Reminder" properties, directly above Start and

[MLO] Re: Outline view unexpectedly switches to the "completed tasks shown" mode

2022-09-06 Thread imajeff
I tried it just now and it seemed like it did change the Outline to show completed tasks when they were hidden. I noticed the TODO view was set to show all, so I changed it to hidden and then it no longer changed Outline to show hidden, as if it were just not changing that to the view that

[MLO] Re: Sorting changes on Zoom

2022-09-26 Thread imajeff
Off the top of my head, each parent task or folder has an option to "Complete subtasks in order" Maybe that's what you need in every place that you are going to add more tasks inside of? On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 9:59:03 AM UTC-6 laurence...@gmail.com wrote: > I have come back to MLO

Re: [MLO] Re: Sorting changes on Zoom

2022-09-28 Thread imajeff
. >> >> On Tuesday, 27 September 2022 at 08:50:49 UTC+1 Laurence Glazier wrote: >> >>> Thanks, that's right, in the Active Actions view, but I was just using >>> the Outline view, to keep things simple! >>> However I like that feature, and also dependent t

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

2022-10-24 Thread imajeff
- I assume that Dan is only talking about the cloud sync which is an extra subscription. I did a trial and never had to manually sync but I couldn't tell how often or if it's just a change that triggered it. - For direct sync between my PC and Android phone, I use what they call WiFi sync that

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

2022-10-23 Thread imajeff
"These are not the text tags you're looking for," totally what I thought when I learned that the development team did not make this to be "text tags" really. It's just another way to make them searchable with special kewords you can make up in that text field but not add more custom fields.

[MLO] Re: importance task setting

2022-10-12 Thread imajeff
Does it make sense if a task "doesn't have a parent" then it IS the parent... Yeah all tasks are evaluated by their importance when the view wants to order them by importance. Being a subtask just means your importance might change depending on where you fall in a hierarchy. Fun fact they

[MLO] Re: Reference / Notes entries?

2022-12-22 Thread imajeff
Just a quick think, since the note in each task is so simple and only text, I like to paste a URL and that could point to data anywhere in any format, for example local file path, online, even other applications (I would like to use The Brain 8 more since I own it). On Wednesday, December 21,

[MLO] Re: Can't seem to find how to convert back to MLO 5

2023-03-02 Thread imajeff
Wow I never knew you could save as the previous version file. I always say back up your data (especially before updating), and I like to use a spare computer to test the new major version before I install on my main machine. Sure enough in MLO5 I can save as ML04 .ml file so that sounds neat

[MLO] Re: How to change interface language to English in Windows application?

2023-02-09 Thread imajeff
Wait what? I do not have any "Language" in Options (MLO 5.2.1) Is that only possible in 6 or something? We are of course talking about the Windows MLO, right? On Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 11:48:56 AM UTC-7 mj100 wrote: > Hi Aleksi, > > Try changing this in settings? > > [image: 2023-02-09

Re: [MLO] Re: Cloud sync limits

2023-08-05 Thread imajeff
Steve could you enlighten me on what is less managable? I simply put unrelated tasks in separate folders. The only reason I have two actual files is because one is for my employer and the other is personal, on my devices at home. If I was working with a file for each client say in my contract

Re: [MLO] Re: Cloud sync limits

2023-08-07 Thread imajeff
here I had a clear definition of how it > was to be used and what could be achieved with it. Then customers got hold > of it and did amazing things I had never contemplated. That’s the joy of > writing software. Quite often I thought to myself that users were using it > wrong… that’s no

Re: [MLO] Re: Cloud sync limits

2023-08-09 Thread imajeff
could at least discuss it. On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 1:54:17 PM UTC-6 imajeff wrote: > For me it's a big deal that MLO is designed for exactly what you said you > need: to focus on the one thing you should be focused on. That means you > should have your entire life in ONE

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

2023-06-28 Thread imajeff
this is a software... and not an APP in a >>>> browser. I have tested CHECKVIST and Dynalist during 1 year, which are the >>>> most advanced Wep outliner son the market and guess what... I'm moving >>>> back >>>> to MLO on Desktop and my productivity is f

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

2024-03-22 Thread imajeff
ons to be done today. For recurring tasks, the star/flag needs to be reset upon completion. I also sympathize with the idea of a scripting language or similar feature, now that we have the "Triggers and Actions" function, but nothing useful to do with it. imajeff schrieb am Montag, 1

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

2024-04-03 Thread imajeff
it be > to add actions for operations that are already available through the user > interface? > > imajeff schrieb am Freitag, 22. März 2024 um 21:16:25 UTC+1: > >> I've not heard of them making a decision to change anything which already >> works a certain way. That's why