Hello Dwight - is this the same Dwight who was an active member of the Bonsai forums?
No, I wasn't thinking of anything complicated which ties you into using particular characters to define a context as a person's name. I was actually thinking of having a separate field for contact name, and linking that to the contact, on Outlook via the desktop app or on my handheld device's contacts list. Probably rather difficult to achieve with such a wide range of handheld operating systems to choose from, so I'd be happy with the idea of setting contacts up as contexts in MLO. (on a separate note, I was disappointed to read on another thread that filtering and sorting options are limited - that's a feature I've used extensively in Bonsai) Stéph On Jan 13, 2:35 pm, Dwight <m...@grantsmiths.org> wrote: > Okay, I need some clarification of what the feature request is going > forward. I *think* it is: > | Recognize a class of contexts flagged with "#" as linking to a > | contact. Provide a command to bring up the address card for the > | referenced contact's address card out of the default address > book. > > Is that it? If so, I think you should log in > tohttp://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general > and put it up for a vote. > > -Dwight > > On Jan 12, 8:22 am, Stéph <st...@senglish.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > Ah, of course! That would work, because you can have more than one > > context, can't you - so I could have a load of actions tagged with > > "@waiting #Smith,Bob" and "@call #Smith,Bob", filter the list by > > #Smith,Bob and come up with a list of ToDos I need to discuss with > > Bob. > > > Even better would be to have the ability to link tasks to a name on my > > contacts list. > > > On Jan 10, 7:19 pm, heinz <heinz.eisenbe...@online.de> wrote: > > > > I use the context field for that. @office for a location context > > > #Smith for a contact context. > > > Heinz > > > > On 10 Jan., 00:49, Stéph <st...@senglish.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for something to take over from Bonsai later this year, > > > > when I get switched from Windows XP to a new Windows 7 laptop and can > > > > no longer synch my Palm. MLO looks good, but one feature from Bonsai > > > > which I would miss is a "contact" column (either linked to my Outlook > > > > contacts, or with autocomplete from a list of previous entries). > > > > > That way, as I track a task and the next step on it is to call John > > > > Smith, I can just change my context to @call and put John Smith into > > > > the contact field. Also, any stuff which is waiting for John Smith to > > > > complete an action can have that name in the contact column while the > > > > context gets changed to @waiting for. > > > > > I'd also need to be able to filter or sort by the contact name - The > > > > big advantage is that, when I'm on the phone to John Smith, I can > > > > quickly see what other subjects I need to discuss or chase him for - a > > > > BIG time-saver! > > > > > (I'm new to MLO: Hope I'm not wasting people's time by requesting > > > > something which already exists) > > > > > Regards, > > > > Stéph- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
