Anyone have any experience using MLO for more than just tasks? Like a full text based reference system?

[SRhyse]

I've currently got most all of my reference information in applications like Evernote, Dropbox, and things that interface with them. Over time, however, Evernote's slowed down and become too buggy for me to use at the moment on the iOS applications, and many of the non file things I use dropbox for have become redundant. I was considering switching over to a more txt based solution for most of my notes like SimpleNote synced with any of various things across the iOS and Windows ecosystem, but after getting an iPad, I have grown to like MLO more and more for the simplicity and speed it offers in my task management, and the hierarchy and tagging it lets me do with contexts.

Half the time I just use dropbox to sync mindmaps I make, which often end up filed into Evernote as text outlines and into MLO as task trees to go through, so I'm wondering if I might just cut out the middle men and do more in MLO. The only thing holding me back currently is the lack of search in the iOS apps, but I know it's coming. 

Does anyone have any success stories or experiences in using MLO to store their reference information in addition to their task information, if only in txt form in most of the notes for many things? Has it become too cluttered for you? Has it sped up your workflow? Does it scale well? My Evernote account's pushing 60k, and though I wouldn't have nearly that much in MLO, I'm worried I'd spend alot of time transferring certain things over, only to encounter the same issues on a different platform.

[Timothee Howland]

Bump.  This is a great summary of the tools & their issues, and a great question.  I too, plan to move more to MLO, now that I have it on BB, iPad, and Windows.

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[Maren Kneeland]

That's funny: "The only thing holding me back currently is the lack of search in the iOS apps, but I know it's coming." Posted in March of 2012. I don't think it's ever coming and it makes the app so crippling. Fortunately I also have it on my Android phone and Windows, so if I need to search something, I can. But what a pain. PLEASE GIVE US SEARCH IN iOS! 

[Stéph]

SRhyse and Maren,

You'll be glad to hear that the search function is rock-solid in the iPhone beta and that the latest beta is on the verge of release. In fact, that and some of the other features have lead to me deleting the iPad version and using the iPhone beta on my iPad as well.  The iPhone beta also supports web links, email addresses and phone numbers, now.

For info, I use MLO to make text notes all the time.  I use file and web links to access drawings and more complex documents from my outline.  Any notes which don't have an action / task associated with them get changed to Folder types.  

I have a mere 2595 items in my main outline, so I don't know what the performance limit is when you scale up.

Stéphane