Comprehensive CLI Support for MLO

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Miguel Barquet

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Mar 23, 2026, 11:42:47 PM (2 days ago) Mar 23

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Hi,

I’ve been a dedicated MLO user for many years, and the app remains a cornerstone of my productivity system. However, I want to raise a concern that feels increasingly urgent: the lack of a fully supported command‑line interface.

After reviewing past discussions in this group, it’s clear that many users have been asking for programmatic access for years, whether through a REST API, a documented file format, or a robust CLI. The most recent comments confirm that there is still no official API or dev documentation, and while some users have found partial workarounds—like the undocumented mlo.exe batch commands or reverse‑engineering the WiFi sync DLL—these approaches are fragile and not sustainable for real automation workflows.

The landscape has changed dramatically since those earlier threads. With the rise of AI‑driven automation tools, a powerful CLI is no longer a “nice to have”—it’s essential. Tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and other agentic systems thrive when they can interact with applications programmatically. If MLO had comprehensive CLI support, I could integrate it directly into my workflows and build automations that would take MLO to an entirely new level of usefulness.

Right now, though, I’m limited to interacting with MLO through the UI, which prevents me from building the kind of intelligent, automated workflows that are becoming standard in modern productivity ecosystems. Competing tools are moving quickly in this direction, and I worry that MLO—despite its strengths—may fall behind if it doesn’t embrace this shift.

I’m sharing this not as criticism, but as someone who genuinely loves the product and wants to keep using it. I hope you can share whether there are any plans for:

A documented and supported CLI
A public API (REST, local, or otherwise)
Any roadmap updates regarding automation or AI integration

I’d appreciate any insight you can provide. Without some form of programmatic access, I may eventually have to migrate to another tool—something I really want to avoid.