I don't have time to read this whole thread - my apologies - but I thought I'd add my tuppence worth here, because personally I am in the process of *leaving MLO*.
I originally bought MLO to save me time. I'm pretty sure it hasn't. I have been on MLO for over a year and it has absorbed countless hour of my life. Core problems 1. The learning curve is too steep. We Old Timers all forget what it was like now but MLO was a nightmare to learn. The documentation dry and hard to digest. And in accurate. And missing stuff. Frankly as a modern consumer product it is all-over-the-place. This will put off most new users, unless they are hardcore geeks/techies. Honestly I dont think any normal, time-poor business user would tolerate MLO, particularly the complexity and counter-intuitiveness of the Windows interface. (ASIDE: MLO need to do usability trials on the Windows interface with new users and see what happens!) But there are so many good things about MLO it's hard to resist. e.g. multi-level hierarchies that are intuitive, extreme ease of converting an item between task and project, user-defined hotkeys for everything in sight, user-defined rule-based formatting, sophisticated user-configurable advanced filtering, lots of fields (flags, tags, importance, urgency, start date as well as due date, goals, due date)... even multi line editing. Sounds BRILLIANT, right? Wrong. 2. It never got me what I wanted I originally bought MLO because it was said to be "the task manager to go to after you've tried all the others". It was said to be a "task management *platform*" that lets you design your own way of working - your own "task management *application*" if you will. And I must have tried about 10 completely different ways of working, with flags doing stuff and tags doing stuff, folders doing stuff... but I was NEVER HAPPY with any of them. My greatest problem was finding a good way to move tasks & projects from GTD list to GTD list. (i.e. Inbox / Active / Someday / Waiting etc.) Every single thing I tried has horrible unintended consequences. My final conclusion was that the MLO needs a separate database field for "List", but it's pretty clear that that's never going to happen. But there are other problems too. Even now, it's very, VERY easy to get slightly confused. Everything seems to take *too many clicks*. Other task management applications have a sort of pre-built dashboard with everything you need to filter one just 1 (or sometimes 2) clicks away. For example: "Show me all my Person (area of life) Active tasks that are starred" ==> How many clicks?! "Now change it to Work area of life" ==> How many clicks? "Now stay in Work area of life, but remove starred filter, and instead show me tagged '@Errands' that are Someday" ==> How many clicks? It seems to me that unless you have an entire tab (work area) set up just for the view you want, it's always a LOT of clicks. But if you have say 15 Context-tags, you cant possibly have a tab for each multiplied by the number of work areas - that would be INSANE... not to mention v difficult to navigate. So I'm off. Just thought I'd say why... J On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 9:44:29 AM UTC, Darius wrote: > > I've checked a MLO roadmap and I must say I don't see a good future for > MLO . MLO is doing a big mistake: no web app or API for MLO cloud, there is > even no basic support for web planned . Now MLO is just not a true multi OS > device. > > I've have 3 new machines and on every of them I cannot use MLO. One is > Raspberry PI, one is laptop with Ubuntu, one is VMware with Lubuntu for my > TV ( I have Windows PC and Galaxy note which I am using fine with MLO) . I > know, this is Linux and Linux is not supported, but the problem is bigger: > > Now we have Windows RT released. How to use MLO? > As in my example I have some machines with Linux, how to use MLO? > If windows 8 fails, and some people will turn to Mac/Linux, what to do? > If I bought chrome book, how to use MLO? > > In short I don't think the developement for all the OS will be fast enough > without any web app... > -- 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 post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/162de663-d537-451b-aada-816f7db21f52%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
