Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I've been away for a year or so. Did anything ever come of this suggestion? J On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 22:46:07 UTC, John . Smith wrote: > > > Not sure how child tasks should be handled TBH. > To me child tasks are self-evident. Which is that when you add a task to > something that is

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

> Not sure how child tasks should be handled TBH. To me child tasks are self-evident. Which is that when you add a task to something that is in one of the board lists on a board, it self-evidently keeps both the Board and the List that has focus i.e. it's 'parent' - if there is a parent as such

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Not sure how child tasks should be handled TBH. But I have just noticed that in addition to custom fields, Asana have now added boards: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/11/15/asana-moves-into-trello-turf-with-boards/#5f48535353b9 It is what people are looking for (and IME

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I have long been arguing in the beta group for a List capability like Trello. The combination of a hierarchical task list and lists would be a killer USP in my view. Richard On 2016-11-16 12:59, John . Smith wrote: For me quick informal hierarchies are crucial. Only today I added three

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

For me quick informal hierarchies are crucial. Only today I added three thank-you letters that I need to write. And in MLO it was really nice to be able to, having entered each of them as a standalone task to quickly group them into "WRITE LETTERS" (I tend to use caps when something has

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

John, It's interesting you bring up the pedantic nature of IQTell. I am encountering the same limitations now that I've been trying it for a few days. I was excited about the tight integration with email, and cloud based services, but it is rather rigid. One of the things I love about MLO is

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I used to think the lack of a mobile app was a deal-breaker, but personally I am so intensely dissatisfied with all the task major management systems available (and I have asked around and tried all the leading tools) that I would now settle for anything that runs on Windows 10 , yes even

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I read a little bit about that product, but since it doesn't have a mobile companion app, I wasn't going to look too much deeper into it. I work in an environment where our machines are locked down and we can't install third party software. The fact that MLO can be run off of a thumb drive is

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

The product to which I refer is called ToDoList by AbstractSpoon. Personally I would certainly consider the product to be 'a competitor' however if MLO don't see any need for Custom Task Attributes, perhaps MLO do not consider themselves to be competitors after all ! J On 6 November 2016 at

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I've been using IQTell for a couple of days now, and despite a steep learning curve, I'm extremely impressed. It's a one-stop shop for web based and mobile device productivity. On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 5:07:33 AM UTC-6, John . Smith wrote: > > > Hello > > I have recently been spending

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

John, I was referring to your original post in this thread (quoted below). Just today, I just checked out IQTELL and it has some of the features you are discussing, but some of the functionality is quite counter-intuitive. It does have some really neat features such as email integration,

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi John, I was referring to the very first post you made in this thread, where you mentioned spending some some time with a competitor that allows adding custom attributes such Someday Maybe, Waiting for, etc. These additional fields would help MLO fit the GTD methodology a little better,in

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Adam I was under the impression that the user voice forum was pretty much dead/ignored. One of the big problems with User Voice is that a lot of the voices are from a long time ago and no longer relevant. This puts new users off as the impact of new stuff is pretty much drowned. Moreover

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi John, I saw that you posted this request on the user voice forum. I voted it too, although it looks like it's way behind in the polls I think that is the official enhancement request media, but I could be wrong. If you don't mind me asking, what is the competitive product that you

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

OK thanks Dwight. So definitely useful, but not VERY useful to Dwight... So, overall where are we with this? Do any of you folks want to submit it as a formal enhancement request to MLO? Pottster? J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

John, if Android supported added fields that would be either supported by or at a minimum not damaged by Windows MLO, there is something like a 70% chance that I would use it. Mu use case would be for comtact information. If I could just type in a contact name that would be good but to be

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

To get clear Dwight, how useful or not would it be to you to have a mobile version of what is being proposed here implemented? On 22 October 2016 at 14:50, Dwight wrote: > Just to clarify > > I am not opposing the development of a Windows-only solution such as you > are

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Just to clarify I am not opposing the development of a Windows-only solution such as you are discussing. I understand and respect Nick's reasons for opposing this but for me, it's more like the question of developing a Mac version. It is irrelevant to me, and I won't use it. It may have

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

> There's already too many features that are Windows only and I wouldn't want to see more. I have looked long and hard at MLO. Compared to almost all other task management applications it is already overwhelmingly complex but highly configurable - so much so that most advanced users of MLO

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

There's already too many features that are Windows only and I wouldn't want to see more. In addition to adding these fields you are also requiring that the custom view engine be updated to include them. If the mobile apps couldn't use them then Views transferred to them wouldn't work either. So

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Oh dear. My concern is that if we do include mobile apps... do you think this project would be too large to ever, ever happen? J On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 1:57:42 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Your suggestion makes sense, however as a person who does almost all MLO > work on

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Your suggestion makes sense, however as a person who does almost all MLO work on mobile I would not be a user of a feature that's only available on Windows. So please don't count me among your supporters. On October 21, 2016 6:59:45 AM "John . Smith" wrote: PS Windows

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

PS Windows Only? It occurs to me that getting these Extra Fields to sync to the cloud shouldn't be too difficult and that this would help users with multiple computers. However incorporating them into the Android/iOS mobile apps would potentially be a lot of work - not to mention unwanted

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

OK it seems to me that several of the advanced users of MLO are in favour of this request. It sounds like we would all be extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes") for our own different purposes but a number of people are now saying that this would be extremely useful. I also

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi Pottster That's actually a different issue. We were looking at ways to move the 'action status' of a task into a new category so as to be able to create a new list that is somewhere between "Active/Do ASAP" and "Someday/Maybe". Moving the Start Date into the future is semantically

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi Dwight, Regarding dating/re-dating tasks on desktop... KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS CONTROL + (=) for next day CONTROL + (-) for previous day CONTROL + ALT + (=) for next week CONTROL + ALT + (-) for previous week [With all the above keep tapping =/- keys to keep adding/reducing] MOUSE SHORTCUTS

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

John, I handle the "soon" situation by scheduling the task for tomorrow. My discipline for myself id that if I have done that twice for a particular task I will not do it a third time - the task is obviously set up wrong and should loose its star, or get a lower importance, or change to a

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

SRhyse I need to create something half way between "Someday/Maybe" and "Active" (Do ASAP). i.e. I need what Nirvana calls a "Later" action status. Do you have any suggestions? To explain, by having Later (i.e. Soon) this allows all your Active actions to literally be "Do ASAP" because it

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi SRhyse I have learned a lot from your input in this thread, and I thank you. However it sounds like your tone has shifted and that you are thinking I am being more dogmatic than in fact I am. To get clear, I have invested many, many hours of my life in MLO and would dearly *love *to

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

You could easily make a view that shows 'All' things with 'Don't show in Todo'. It'd take 20 seconds if you were being slow. I tend to look at contexts on my next action by context list. It shows all next actions grouped by context. Pretty sure that's the name of it, but it's a default view.

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

> I'll see if I can get around to replying to your post some other time, but as a short version: > > If you hit 'hide in todo' on any task or project, it'll instantly not show in those todo views. If you wanted to make a view called 'Someday Maybe' > from there that showed all those tasks

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

As I had recalled but not messed with in a while as well, you can set certain contexts not to show in todo views and always be 'closed/inactive', alongside having one contexts include one another. You can also assign a hotkey to them, making that a single click. I personally like some contexts

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I'll see if I can get around to replying to your post some other time, but as a short version: If you hit 'hide in todo' on any task or project, it'll instantly not show in those todo views. If you wanted to make a view called 'Someday Maybe' from there that showed all those tasks with that

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

> If a task falls into any of those categories, it doesn't appear on active lists until the right > conditions are met, and only takes a click to step in some cases for any task. *In one form* > *or another, that's how other apps you're referring to operate as well. * I have to disagree with

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

John, For me a task is either active or not. MLO handles this automatically based on dates, hierarchy, and dependence. If my list of active tasks is to big or I need to go dark and focus on something hot at the moment I will star tasks and bang them out before going back to my lists. I rarely

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

For the first part on AoR, you can easily click on any folder and hit 'zoom in'. This will instantly filter what you see in the outline and associated task lists to be only within that folder. In this way, you can do what you're after in a single click if you use folders, drilling down as

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi SRhyse > If you're really needing to 'change' that attribute of a > task that often, I'm not sure you're doing it right No, that is absolutely not what I said. I'm not changing "Area of Responsibility". Basically not EVER. I just want to filter all views quickly on different AoR one at a

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi David How do you implement an action status of Acive (i.e. "do ASAP") and Someday/Maybe? (or similar) Personally I also have started using an action status of "Soon/Later" which I find to be extremely useful for stuff that is dipping in and out of my *literally *doing something "as soon

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I've got 10k+ tasks in MLO and I've never really run into any issues. I've had more in there and I've had less, and it's worked the entire time no matter how many times I got futzy and reorganized things with varying benefits of utility when I was in a mood to avoid doing my work. Based on

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I to was thinking 400 or 500 tasks is a small list. I use folders for area of responsibility, contexts for context, and dates, dependence, and hierarchy to control when a task becomes active. I only ever have one of two contexts with the second one being @waitingfor. I use filtered views to

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I would consider a task list with 400 tasks to be _extremely_ small. Just saying. -d On September 30, 2016 9:59:01 AM "John . Smith" wrote: SRhyse To get clear, I only claim that MLO is unusable for the GTD method when you have a large number (e.g. over say 400+) tasks.

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

SRhyse To get clear, I only claim that MLO is unusable for the GTD method when you have a large number (e.g. over say 400+) tasks. Are you seriously advocating the conflation of 'context' type tags (e.g. @home, @work, @errands, @phone ) with 'action status' (e.g. @wait, @somedaymaybe,

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

LOL. Great post. I tried a lot of things and happened to end with MLO because I had been a keen user earlier of Ecco Pro, and secondarily Lotus Agenda and liked the outlining approach. Allen wisely swore off endorsing any particular tool and warned people against "cranking widgets"; better to

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I'd thoroughly enjoy being able to create custom task attributes, particulary if MLO could do things like add up the numerical ones on the fly, but saying GTD is unusable in MLO is more than a bit of a stretch on any platform it's presently available on. At base, all you'd need for GTD are

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Just to re-iterate that I have now spent many months spent trying to implement the GTD method on MLO Windows and very reluctantly I have been forced to the conclusion that for users like myself who have a fairly large number of tasks (400-500) on my system, that messy workaround *simply don't

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Yes, custom fields are very, VERY powerful. And would take power use of MLO to whole new level. J On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:27:40 AM UTC+1, pottster wrote: > > Interestingly, Asana have just added custom field functionality >

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Interestingly, Asana have just added custom field functionality https://blog.asana.com/2016/09/track-anything-with-custom-fields/ The more I think about this the more I feel it might be THE big missing functionality for MLO power users. The use cases in the Asana blog article give an insight

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I would LOVE an option to select whether to inherit attributes from parent, from sibling, or (for dates) to preset a date to Today. Bonsai used to have this feature. Stéph -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi Dwight So to get clear "AS=" stands for "Action Status=", with possible values of. A - Active W - Waiting S - Someday L - Later > E. I believe that when you say "tag" you are talking about the > field known to MLO as "context", is that correct? Yes. Great minds... :) Re F. -

Re: [MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi, John. A. Fire=>Field. Yes, Cupertino effect. B. AS=The typo, AS values for you would be A, W, S, L. Or anything else you chose. C. When thinking about this I had identified a disadvantage identified as "can't edit with multiselect" but I forgot to include it in the writeup. It turns

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi Dwight > code a statement in the Notes fire I take it you mean Notes field, yes? :) In which case this is sounds remarkably ingenious and I confess that I've not yet tried that particular workaround. I think I get the principle which is to burn usual text strings into the Notes field that

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Hi, John. I would like to see User Defined Fields (UDF) in MLO. In fact, I would like it so much (if it were done correctly) that it would probably rise to about number seven on my wishlist. -Dwight *Footnote 1: doing it correctly.* I would not use what you described, as it's within the range

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Of course what I personally really want is an Area of Life (e.g. Work, Personal, etc) and an action status field (e.g. Active, Someday, Waiting etc) in order to make the GTD method viable on MLO. However the MLO interface is already so cluttered and confusing I can't imagine that I'll get

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Done. Please vote here: https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/15943525-extra-task-fields-aka-custom-task-attributes J On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:55:51 AM UTC+1, Mark Krieger wrote: > > I like it. Please post it at https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general >

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

Nothing new I'm afraid. This comes up periodically. See here from 2009 for example. It might require sync to undergo a fair amount of re-development and I'm not sure about the impact on things like database structure

[MLO] Re: Feature Request: Extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task Attributes")

I like it. Please post it at https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general so it can voted on. Not sure if I still have votes left, but put it up there. Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group