How to use multiple intances

[Alexis]

Workspaces are nice but in the end all you see is only one list at the time. Sometimes for comparing or copying taks it´s useful to see more than one list at the time. Especially if the task does not appear on your current list. For this to happen you open another instance of MLO.

At least that´s what i thought. But although i checked the Multiple instances Checkbox i don´t know how to open the same file twice.
How is it done?

BTW, is there a possiblilty to export settings (not just a theme) to  use on another machine.

Thank You
Alex

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Alex. There may be a way to open two instances of a single profile but I don’t know it, and I suspect that there’s probably not a way. I use multiple instances when I am working with multiple files, which isn’t often.

 

In order to compare or copy between views I would recommend using the “helper window” – my name for it, MLO calls it “open workspace in new window.” Open one view and hit F3. MLO opens a new window showing the task list from your view. In the main window, open the second view. Both windows are “live” – you can mark tasks complete, rename them, add and remove stars, flags, contexts, due dates, etc. The helper window however is just a task list. No other tabs, no command bar, no view properties panel and no task properties panel. In the helper window, you can change any task property that’s viewable and editable in the body of the task list (like GOAL, assuming that the GOAL field is shown in your view) but not those that require the use of the properties panel, like recurrence or dependencies. Hint: make sure that all of the fields you want to view or edit are displayed in your task list *before* hitting F3. Helper window is _great_ at dragging and dropping between views.

 

Regarding export, here is a chart I saw in the beta testers discussion forum. The chart was posted by user and beta tester TimV. I’m not a user of export and cannot offer any guidance but the chart might help. If you are looking for a single meta-export that would create a single export file with all of this stuff in it, the answer is, this is not available.

Exported Settings	File Extension	Binary/XML	Multi-Select?
Theme	.mlthm	Bin	No
Auto Formatting	.mlaf	XML	Yes
Views	.mfv	XML	Yes
DB Sync	.mlsc	XML	Yes
Outlook Sync	.mos	XML	No

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[Alexis]

So even in the future the im-, ex-port of Hotkeys is not planned. Strange!

[Stéph]

Hello Alexis,

Allow multiple instances doesn't allow you to open the same file in both instances.  I can see why - it would be very difficult to keep both instances synchronised.  However, F3 works well for moving tasks around within one outline file, as described by Dwight.

I was hoping that I could use multiple instances to drag and drop tasks from one outline file to another (effectively as a manual backup), but you have to cut and paste, because MLO doesn't support drag and drop between multiple instances.  In fact drag and drop could be massively improved. I'd like to be able to drag text from other programmes (eg MS Word or pdf copies of meeting minutes) to create new tasks, or to drop into the notes of existing tasks.  Here's hoping...

Stéphane

Regarding copying or moving tasks between two files

[robisme (Olivier R)]

I wish we could detach a tab, like with Chrome, and all the menus would be available on this new window.

A bit like F3, but that would create sort of a new instance.

Olivier

[Alexis]

Exactly, Olivier!

As the workspace concept is already working fine it should be possible to display a whole new instance working with the same .ml file.