Android version of MLO - is there an more compact view??

[John Smith]

Hi

Is thee any way of getting a more compacted view of 'Outline' (and of 'Active Actions' etc.) ?
There is FAR too much wasted vertical space.  As things stand it is very close to being 'unusable' !

If not, I shall probably uninstall it.  Either way is this planned for any future releases? 

Thanks

[Andrei Bacean]

Hi friend
Look into the settings. It's possible to choose a compact view.
Best regards
Andrew B

[John Smith]

Gotcha - thanks

I take it you mean "List view display mode", yes?

In my defence, I did have a quick look but couldnt find it.

My general suggestion would be to find a way to make the settings more obvious.

e.g. To group them by category.

And for this particular setting why not just make all three options "Compact / Standard  / Full view" visible at the higher level - i.e. visible before yo click "List view display mode" as this would make it much more self-explanatory.

Thanx

J

[Joel Azaria]

Go to settings, general and find "list view display mode. 
Compact will show more on screen.  It is not any more efficient with white space it will just remove any/all second line data (shows context, date due et al).

If the v2 iPad so is any indication, the v2 android app will not improve upon this.

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[Trish Putnam]

For what it's worth, while I personally understand and agree with being able to reduce white space, for some people it poses issues if it isn't present - I have had colleagues who had problems reading items as separate if there isn't a line of white space between them, for example.

Ideally, there would be a setting to add the white space (white space should probably be opt-in, but either way would work).

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[Joel Azaria]

I agree Trish.  But having whitespace is not the same as *wasting* whitespace.

IMO MLO wastes a lot of whitespace.
And if I deliberately CHOOSE a compact view I think I'm implying I want less wasted screen.  Can we agree on that?  So then why take info away (2nd line) while favoring space wasting?  Minimize the waste and give me back my 2nd line.  THAT might make for a useful compact view.  As t stands compact gives me little and costs too much.
IMHO of course.

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[Richard C]

Hi John

This partially answers my earlier question - it looks as if you are using the Android version.   My earlier answer about being able to do anything in MLO, applies primarily to the Windows version.  The iOS and Andriod versions are playing catch up with iOS being well in advance of Android at the moment - so you are looking at the product that has fewest features.     However, it is clear that Andrey is focussing on these platforms in both bringing them into the alignment with the Windows version and also now, adding features (such the calendar) to these products before adding them to the Windows version.

I don't use the Android version so I can't comment on the space problem but if you have a sound case (and it looks good to me - I would vote for less blank space)  then I would be pretty certain that this will be fixed in a future release (but probably in a way that would allow those that like the white space to keep this as an option).

Richard

[Trish Putnam]

Not disagreeing with you on that, Joel, though I think that the reduced info approach might still be useful for some people. There are those out there who explicitly want the immediately visible info to be limited to the task title, and only see more detail when they explicitly click on an item.  Again, it could just remain an available option.

Why I'm focused on remembering the impacts to others it's that I've recently been following a number of support forums for other task management systems. I'm looking for something that I can sensibly use with my Windows phone as well as my desktop and laptop, so I've seen a lot of different approaches requested and discussed.  I keep coming back to MLO and the clunky workarounds I do to manage tasks on my phone because of its ultimate flexibility- I can personalize it to work the way I do, or I can use it in an extremely simplified fashion.

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[Joel Azaria]

Key word being options...  Seems we're in agreement really.

I'm in the same boat as you.  Ultimately keep with/coming back to MLO because of the true underlying power but continuously aggravated (sometimes more than others) by the foolish hoops and workarounds I'm forced to jump through to make my work low work - and even more agitated by the lack of responsiveness and communication from the devs.  But that's another topic for another thread.

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