I would not want a project (as opposed to the next task within the
project) on my to-do list. My to-do list should be filled with tasks
that are ready to go, all the planning and analysis completed, all
the prerequisites met, what might be called shovel-ready. When I
sta
Hi, Shabbalemo. "Any" is the same concept as "OR" while "All" is the
same concept as "AND"
I would give a more specific and helpful reply if I knew what part
of MLO you are finding this in. The subject line of your email
mentions advanced filters - I looked all thr
Hi, Alex. I see that your circumstances are different from mine. But
for what its worth, I use Thunderbird for email. I have an address
group named "#3" which turns out to be really fast to type.
addresses in the group are my tasks by email address from mlo, and
also a d
Maybe soomeone else will directly answer your question (I can't) but
I can tell you the workaround. In the Advanced section check the box
be "add advanced" then click "Setup" and enter rules that implement
the filter you want. For example, if you want only tasks that have a
I have a similar situation, my setup is less sophisticated but it
works.
set the task to recurr every Monday and Friday with no end or
limit.
when the task comes up on my to-do list in November (or late
October) instead of doing the task I edit
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On 6/7/2024 7:59 AM, Patricio Carranza
wrote:
Thanks a lot Grant! Im a paying customer, I
didnt know about the support desk. is there an email or
something like that where I cou
hi, now+4h, other than syntax issues, would mean 4 hours into the
future from now, which is not what you want. "today" is this day at
midnight. (not sure about this but I think "today" used as a start
time is midnight a minute before 00:01 and "today" used as a due
time
starting with the left hand sidebar saying "views" at t he top and
showing a list of view titles
1. click on someview. Notice there is a highlight bar under the view
name.
2. click and hold on the view name. Be sure you are on the name
itself and not the highlight ba
This is a long standing issue, one of the two most problematic
aspects around context hours. The other is that if you have a lot of
contexts that have hours that all need to change at once (for
example, outdoor activities that close at sunset, or things
rescheduled when
Just wanted to mention that I am a long time fan of the idea of
scripting for MLO. Just to be clear, to achieve full value,
scripting should be a two way street. Namely, an event in MLO
triggers an external script, and, an external script issues commands
to MLO.
Hi, TS. I have lost count of how many times I have had a computer reboot
for some reason while MLO is running. Each time, MLO will ask me whether
MLO hung or whether it was a problem outside of MLO. I've not seen a
destroyed file as a result. But your next steps are the same regardless
pf hoe t
Hi, Mr/Ms Alsatian This is a simple issue that sometimes gets more
complex side issues. I'm going to assume that you are doing this on
a Windows system (or one that's emulating Windows) and that you are
not synchronizing with MLO on any other computers, tablets or
phones
easy. set it to repeat every 24 months.
-Dwight
On 3/6/2024 7:25 AM, Grant wrote:
How would I create a task that repeats every other year?
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On 2/18/2024 9:48 PM, Kenneth Dold wrote:
I build websites and have an order of tasks that I like to follow in
dealing with the customer, develop, and design of the website. I would
like to be able to jus
create a task with start date today and due date in 100 years. Set
"lock period" and set it to regenerate two weeks after completion.
When you mark it completed it will regenerate with start time two
weeks from today and due time 100 years plus two weeks from today.
Two
Hi, Patricio
I believe that you are describing project management tools. Project
management tools and task management tools have many similarities.
Project management tools are more powerful and take more time to set
up and maintain. If you can afford to hire someon
Pat, try this:
In the recurrence window, where you set up the schedule for your
task's recurrence, click the Advanced Options button.
In the Advanced Options window find the last item, called "Do not
create a completed copy of this task upon recurrence"
The checkbox
I have recently re-thought how I am using my time, which resulted in
some extensive changes to the open hours schedule for some of my
contexts. Some contexts have complex hours. There are several groups
of contexts that all have the same hours.
When I make a change,
Hi, Muhammed. I think I can help.
First, the recurrence formula describes the due date. The error
message you are getting sounds like you created a formula that
matched the start date. Redo the formula to match the due date, task
repeats every Thursday. be sure the
Many of my tasks run past midnight; I turn on the "use time"
checkbox and set start/due times to something like noon Monday to
4am Tuesday. Instead of looking at tasks for today I look at tasks
for now through now+0.5 which means 12 hours from now.I have a
number
easy enough. As I understand it, you are looking at a task list
(non-hierarchical) view with an IsProject filter and you are not
getting all of the tasks in your project, only the ones with the
Project box checked.
First, let me affirm that you should check the proj
The codes described by Mario are very useful, but they do not
have any intelligence. All they do is display the character for
ticked-off checkbox or the character for the unchecked (empty)
checkbox. There's no popping up, graying out, etc.
If I needed the checklist
I experimented with a different approach which doesn't work. My
idea was to use a daily repeating task which is configured to
create and leave behind a completed task after each repetition.
The idea would be to go into the task each day before marking it
complete
Folders could not substitute for tags because a task can only be
in one folder, tags tend to come in flocks.
Flags could substitute but there is a downside. Tags can be very
ad hoc, arising in response to a transitory issue that soon fades.
Whenever a new tag is nee
I understand that there are times that you have repeating tasks
that do not really have a pre-determined date when they are due,
and that MLO makes you put on a due date, which is annoying. My
position is that if I set up my tasks well, I can just pick some
meanin
Hi, Simon. I assume that the view you are looking at is a
hierarchical view that shows each task under its parents,
grandparents, etc. Is that right? In a hierarchical view you can
only sort the root items because anything more than that would
confuse the hierarch
Hi, Vadiraj. I am just guessing here, but I noticed that the
filename was a mix of ASCCC characters with DBCS (double byte
character standard). I assume that these characters represent a
name that you have selected for your profile. Is it possible that
you starte
Hi, Hammy. First off, thank you for picking up my error. You are
totally right, any rule citing "Active" should have cited
"ActiveAction". Thank you for paying close attention!
I appreciate your comment on flexibility. My wish list for a task
manager is that I shoul
Frank, did you try Stéph's suggestion? I think there's a good
chance it will give you what you need.
do you want two different views in the two windows? Open a window
and load one of the views. Hit f3 and you get a second window
displaying that view, but without too
I try not to use a task's position in the hierarchy to denote
anything that affects the planning and execution of the task,
because the task hierarchy is very rigid. You cant sort it, it's
difficult to include part but not all of a hierarchy, and so on.
However, I
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Date:
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Staff are scattered. They all used to live and work in and around
Kharkiv which appears to have been the #2 target (after Kiev) at
the start of the invasion, so most if not all fled the city. One
person from Customer Support is a refugee in the UK. Males cannot
le
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Subject: Re: [MLO] [REQUEST][ANDROI
I'm not clear on what the issue is, so let me be a little more
specific about what I am proposing.
You have some contexts that are not used for filtering and that
you would like to see in the task list. Let's suppose that some
examples are @call, @email, @spreadshee
You know that's available in the advanced filter, right? I
believe that to be useful you need a way to specify order of
operations, for example to distinguish ((this AND this)BUT NOT
that) from (this AND (this BUT NOT that)) - this is easy in
advanced filter but a
If you used tags instead of contexts for the filtering would the
problem go away?
On 7/7/2022 05:49, Radek Pilich wrote:
Consider adding new setting to the context items - Show in props
line.
Right now, ALL assigned context appea
I have a view that shows all tasks that were modified in the last
48 hours, sorted in descending order by time modified. It's useful
when I want to undo something. It's better than "undo" because I
can undo the penultimate thing I did without having to redo the
la
That's a pretty weird place to get an error.
I believe that you said you are already using cloud synch between two
mobile devices, is that right,? I feel silly even suggesting this but are
you certain that you copied the email address and password over correctly,
with no typos? And are you cer
Hi, Victor. I'd really like to help, but I have zero knowledge of
Macintosh, except that I know that there are people who successfully use
MLO on Macintosh.
Could you just confirm some thing for me? When you say "windows" you are
referring to the windows version of MLO running on a Macintosh,
Something or other on my phone unlocks if it can see my home
computer or my car via bluetooth, if neither is visible then it
waits to see my fingerprint. I understand that this is not the
same thing as what MLO location based contexts are supposed to do,
but it's
Filling in task details in the Properties (right) sidebar under
Windows 10, I tab into yje Context box and start typing. I type
"#co" and notice a little popup box with two entries, "#computer"
and "#cooking". I want the computer entry, so I type an "m" and
the "c
I am close to Susanna's second option.
I have a huge number of outdoor-oriented tasks, summer daily, some are
weekly, some are monthly, one is every 11 days. I tag them all with the
word " hibernate ". When it gets cold, I create a task called "end
hibernation", set it for next year April 1 sta
Scripts would be amazing, especially if they could be triggered by a
condition in the data as well as by an action. For example, if this task
goes more than one week overdue, send an email to Joe with a copy to me.
Alternative, build an API and attach an external scripting app like ifttt
On Ma
sounds to me like a repeating project. In the "Task recurrence"
page for the parent project, open "advanced options" and be
certain that "reset all subtasks to uncompleted" is set
On 5/8/2022 13:39, Charles Blaquière
wrote:
I have a proje
I support rich text in notes as well, but I will note that this feature
would probably require a formatting toolbar with buttons for enabling and
disabling bold, italic, underline, strikeout as well as indent, bullet,
number, larger font, smaller font.
Further, if the formatting toolbar were a
This kind of thing generally requires a modulo or remainder
function (divide the date by seven and take the remainder) which
is unfortunately beyond the capability of the advanced filter.
This is clearly different from what you are asking for but maybe
you might fin
Hi, I'm confused. The filter that Stéph proposed for you
(ProjectStatus <> "Suspended") does not purport to test the
task status but rather to test the status of the project of which
the task is a part. You appear to be reporting that the filter
inappropriately te
I asked Alyona what organizations are doing a lot to help
refugees, in case anyone wanted to contribute. Her response:
sending donations to Ukrainian Red
Cross and our Army is the most helpful I suppose.
* Ukrainian Army
https://savelife.in.ua/
I heard that Andrey and his family are somewhere that's safe, for
now, near the center of the country. I don't know any more about
his accommodations, including whether or not he would consider
this to be a new home base. I know that Alyona seemed resistant to
the
Last night I was watching CNN coverage as missiles and bombshells
were launched from Belgorod, Russia to land and explode in and
around Kharkiv, Ukraine where the MLO team is located. I'm
confident that the MLO application and the servers that support
them have be
Hi, as is common in MLO there's more than one way. If you want
every task in every project to show you what project it's in, go
to settings>Current MLO data file>To-Do-List
Formatting>Projects and check the box called "encode project
name." Then you can choose, in
Hi, Ben. You are probably looking at the list of views in the
left edge sidebar, right? If the sidebar's not open hit alt-f1 a
few times until you see the sidebar.
The left sidebar can show a list of views or it can show all of
the filter settings which make up th
Shrink the column so that it's the same size as your longest date
(like, 23 September 2022). The time will get truncated and not
displayed, except if you have a short date (like 1 June 2022) you
will see the beginning of the time, you can just ignore it.
Hint: shrin
Good suggestion, MOK. For MLO shortcut files, I point to the .ml data file
instead of the .exe because once or twice a year after an update MLO has to
be shown where the day file is at. With the data file as the shortcut it
never has to ask.
-Dwight
On January 16, 2022 12:44:01 "MOK | MATSURU"
At one time, one of the users set up something at Uservoice.com -
for a little while it was great but it quickly got stale.
Each user got a bunch of votes (I think, 10?) to allocate among
all of the proposed enhancements. The ehancements were listed in
order o
Hi, Rex. You are creating a pretty complex situation. You are
going to have four devices using two apps each so eight apps, with
four local MLO databases, four local Google Calendar databases and
one cloud-based Google Calendar database. Every task that travels
be
I work off of a custom view of today's active tasks. If I am getting it
right, the first task in the list is the next thing I should work on. If I
encounter a task in that list that I am not willing to do at this time, I
consider the question: what would have to change to make it ready for
acti
I think what the OP is requesting is a way to make a backup of
the current MLO profile to a file that's resident on the phone.
This is obviously not helpful if the phone is lost, stolen,
drowned or otherwise inaccessible, but it could be useful if tasks
are delete
So I just clicked on the context column header in my
current display and it immediately sorted the view by context. I
think maybe this works on views where hierarchy is turned off,
also known as flat views or to-do lists. If you are looking at a
hierarchical view,
On December 3, 2021 01:56:27 Grant wrote:
'basically deletes the rule"
Not actually true. If a rule contains filters and then becomes the root for
a group of subrules, the filters are hidden. You can get them back
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the step-by-step directions
You almost got it. The missing piece is that you need a rule whose only
function is to determine whether the tree of rules below it will be ORed or
ANDed to any other rules. So, create a subr
Hi, all. I'm going to reply to imajeff off of the Google group as I am not
interested in posting a recipe for breaking MLO where people I don't know
could read it
-Dwight
On November 16, 2021 17:07:42 imajeff wrote:
The more explanation I read from Dwight, the more questions I come up with.
"
Let me try to explain the security issue and why the expensive
and burdensome task or maintaining separate code bases would do
nothing to solve this.
If a web app is going to work with your tasks, it needs
read/write access to some database where your tasks are kept
I agree with the "always confirm" advice. Here's another concern: is
3/11/21 the third of November or the 11th of Mar? I would like too see
more use of this unambiguous format: 11Mar21
On November 6, 2021 04:09:01 Grant wrote:
I failed to mention that I am sensitive to this topic because I gr
Your proposed scenario with this week, next week works pretty well most of
the time. But it's not perfect. If a Christian American, whose weeks start
Sunday, says "this Sunday" when today is Saturday, common sense would parse
it as "tomorrow" but your algorithm would yield "six days ago"
I bel
Hi, Ryan. Let's see if I can send a complete message this time.
I understand the situation you describe and I've been there more
than a few times. Fortunately, MLO includes a "skip occurrence"
command to cover exactly this situation.
Windows
Right
On October 23, 2021 04:18:30 Grant wrote:
But what if also wanted note that task had 'Art' as a topic, and it related
to my 'Hobby' and it already had the tag liking it to my google calendar?
I can not add those to the Tag field right now. >
But you can.
Just type into the tag field "ho
You may have missed my point. If I use MLO/desktop AND I use cloud sync,
and you use MLO/webwhich is attached to the cloud file, then my data will
be insecure even if I myself never use MLO/web.
If you want me to explain this, write to me at mlodu...@gmail.com
-Dwight
On October 21, 2021 10:5
Hi, Ryan
On October 21, 2021 13:09:55 Ryan K wrote:
I have several recurring tasks that I complete each day. Rarely I miss a
day or two. When I do, I have to click through all of them for several
days to catch up to the current day. In the task recurrence window, there
is an option to "Reg
Hi, Joel.
Where will this app obtain access to my tasks? The most logical.
and easiest to program, would be to simply take the data from the
cloud sync file.But that would be a problem for me. I already
consider the security of the cloud sync file to be an area for
Hi, JJ. MLO is not ignoring your closed Business Hours
context. It it filtering out and excluding any task whose open
hours do not include NOW, where "open hours" are calculated as the
open hours of all contest combined using OR. The config
tag that would work for
Just a question: the issue is simplest when discussing Mondays and gets
tougher later in the week. On Thursday, your proposal would make "next
Friday" synonymous with "tomorrow". Are you really comfortable with this?
-Dwight
On September 30, 2021 04:16:35 Stéph wrote:
I agree completely.
On
So, if I want to avail myself of all of your latest functionality, but I
also want to remain in the BETA stream, so that any future beta releases
will be available for installing and testing, should my current
installation be from BETA or PLAY?
On September 22, 2021 04:57:28 "Alyona (MLO Suppo
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On July 17, 2021 02:02:26 "zel...@gmail.com" wrote:
What about:
creating a new workspace tab
setting up the filters you want
right click on workspace tab
"Set as default for this tab"right click on workspace tab
"Lock default in this tab "
right click on workspace tab
"Pin this tab"
Right cli
Sigi, fyi automatic synch works great for me on both Windows and Android.
Only exception: if my phone battery is low then Battery Saver kicks in and
autosynch stops. When I get home, I plug the phone in, and without any
further intervention from me, Battery Saver drops and autosynch runs. By
ery one of
those projects.
-Dwight
On June 15, 2021 16:14:08 Dwight Arthur wrote:
On June 15, 2021 10:12:18 "'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized"
wrote:
Dwight, I believe, gave me the answer to this a long time ago. It’s not
related to the upgrade I don’t think
On June 15, 2021 10:12:18 "'Michael Emerald, CFA' via MyLifeOrganized"
wrote:
Dwight, I believe, gave me the answer to this a long time ago. It’s not
related to the upgrade I don’t think. I wish I could remember the
solution, but it had to do with looking at the parent, as the filter
sett
I support this request. I have several task lists sorted by
importance, and often I will create a new task and want to see it
land at a certain point in the sequence of tasks. This might
involve giving a specific value to task importance, like 85 or
132, which is
It has been a while since I looked at Notion. When I last looked
it was very interesting, powerful/flexible. But it fell down on
ability to deal with images. I need my note-taking tools to
quickly and easily absorb images I throw at it: when on smartphone
I want t
Steph, I agree that the ability to read an MLO database as an XML
structure would open the door for a lot of extended functionality
but I believe an API would be better, because of a greater chance
of leveraging the strengths of MLO.
I believe that the greates
I had a similar problem. Then I came up
with icons that clearly indicated each workspace and attached them
to the relevant views, then locked and pinned the workspaces,
giving me a large but manageable collection of icons that I can
take in at a glance.
Android and Windows versions are definitely a different code
base. I'm not certain, but I would not be surprised if this was an
intentional choice for marketing reasons.
For some features, the functionality is essentially the same
across both code bases.
There a
I have had cases where MLO gets hung up, I would estimate maybe
once every 12 to 18 months. Mostly I believe it to be
environmental factors like the time I turned out to be running a
full backup and a full system virus scan at the same time and the
system was runn
Assuming you are using cloud sync, on PC go into
synchronization>configuration>MLOCloud and look at the field
"sync my local data with this remote data file" - get the file
name that's there.
Then on phone go into Settings>synchronization>mlocloud and
look at
I agree with Michael's solution for making it visible. There may
also be an issue of dependencies. Suppose for example you are
buying a tool or applying for a permit and you have three projects
waiting for completion. In each project, you can find the first
task t
Instead of the difficult maneuver of hitting the caret without
getting the completed checkbox, try just doubleclicking or
doubletapping the task caption
-Dwight
On 2/17/2021 14:40, David G wrote:
Seperate question
I often mistake
Another reason for starting a context with a character other than
"@" is to allow some natural groupings whenever contexts are shown
alphabetically. For example, five or six contexts that I use
constantly start with "*" or "#" which puts them to the top of the
lis
I have a context "@Waiting"
A lot of standalone tasks have that status. For example, if I buy
something online and it's supposed to show up next Tuesday before
8PM I'll create a task "received widget from storename" with start
set to Tuesday 20:00 and context @waiti
Hi, Bob. I have no expertise in wifi synch and will leave it for
others to advise you about that. But I have one bit of advice for
people who use MLO for a while and build up a lot of data and then
want to start synching
Once you have installed MLO on your second pl
Hi, Stuart. I can't tell you where to look for it in the iPad,
but the "collapse all tasks" button (circled in red on the
screenshot below) is really helpful when doing this kind of thing
- as you work more and more of your collapsed (or rolled up)
folders get exp
d. Parent and
child filters should work in a clear, consistent
way, not sometimes randomly decide to exclude
tasks that pass the main filters.
Happy to help report this.
can get this fixed. Parent and child filters should
work in a clear, consistent way, not sometimes randomly
decide to exclude tasks that pass the main filters.
Happy to help report this.
es randomly decide to exclude tasks
that pass the main filters.
Happy to help report this.
On Thursday, February 25,
2016 at 2:01:52 PM UTC-8 Dwight Arthur wrote:
Hi, Kjell.
This go
I'm not certain, but I believe that showing hierarchy with
parents and children works as follows: look at the tasks that you
would get with hierarchy off. Are any of these tasks that are
shown the parent of other tasks that are also in the view? If so,
create a hi
A group that I work with has a standing zoom for a few hours
Monday evening, lunchtime Wednesday and a few hours Friday
morning. I have a @GroupZoom context that is set to be open those
hours and closed the rest of the time, so issues I've set to be
discussed on t
On Android, the top line of the New Task widget says
New Task In: ▼
By tapping the downarrow you can select other destinations, like
Work or Personal
On RTE on Windows, if you are having yor input parsed, you can
use the To Folder (tofld) command, like
B
ything you have written was very helpful. The "Add
advanced" was something I was lacking knowledge about. Now
I am better equipped to get MLO to do what I need.
Thank you for your instruction.
On Mon, Dec 21, 20
Hi, Bob.
First issue involves where you set the project status. Maybe I am
reading it wrong, but it sounds like you are setting project
status on each task that's part of the project. I would suggest
instead creating a parent and putting all of the project tasks as
Hi, Kevin. Let's start with the second message. This is a crash,
something is seriously wrong. The people at MLO would like to fix
is, so they are asking for your help. The message shows you how to
create a snapshot of all of the troubleshooting logs and shows you
You could have a single file shared by the two of you, with top
level branches called "his" "hers" and "ours" - you could modify
your to do list to show only tasks from "his" and "ours" and
exclude "hers". She could do the same thing.
Pro: simple, clean and ea
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