I'm happy that MLO3 has location-based reminders but I find the usability of this feature to be very poor. As far as I can tell right now there are only a few ways to create location-based reminders:
- Mobile app - Be physically at the exact location when you create the new context - the GPS will default to your current location. - Mobile app - From the default current location, scroll around in the map to find the desired location and set a new pin (only works if you already know exactly where the desired location is on the map and can find it by simply moving the map around) - Desktop - Create a new context and assign it a location: Tools > Manage Contexts > Right-Click > New Context > Location tab > then enter the exact GPS coordinates. This is buggy - you are given no guidance as to how to find or format the GPS coordinates and if not entered correctly you get an error message. Finding the exact coordinates is a whole different challenge - you have to use google or some other method to find the exact GPS coordinates and enter those. I think 2 major changes are needed before this feature will become truly usable: 1. Add the ability to search for an address or destination from within the app (ideally use Google's search engine) 2. Add the ability to assign a location-based reminder directly to a task, rather than through contexts It's ridiculous that you can't search for the desired location just by typing "Home Depot" or "12345 Smith Street". I like the idea of being able to assign locations to contexts, but I really think there should be a very simple way to add a location-based reminder to an individual task without having to set up a new context for it. Say for example I just need a one-time location-based reminder and will never use that location for reminders again....why should I have to go through all of the setup steps to create a new context, find the GPS coordinates, format them properly, add them to the context, and then create the task and assign it to that context. It's just too many steps. A task management software should be as simple to use as possible, after all the point of using it is to simplify your life...not make it more complicated. Other apps do location-based reminders sooooo much better. -- 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/e05a466f-6017-4467-8c05-c77bd58b4790%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
