What??!!! Only 2 lines of Notes visible in the Reminders window??!!!! What??!!! (MLOv2 for Android)

[Nathan G]

Hello people!

First of all, thank you for all of your dedication and hard work in putting this program together.  I'm always amazed at how such a big powerful program can be condensed into such a small size.  Overall, I really appreciate the feel of the program, and the integrity of the programming house.

I use MLO for more than just organizing tasks.  I also take notes, composition, and organize documents within it.  As such, I make extensive use of the Notes field. 

I also use 'tasks' to hold daily reminders and prayers.  I place reminders on these so that I can review the text in the Notes field.


Anyway: I've been looking forward to v2.  But I've also been concerned that there would be important things lost.  I'm personally not a big fan of 'material design', partly for aesthetic reasons, but more importantly because I see a number of poor design choices (poor functionality) made at the behest of this google imposition.

I only made the leap to v2 today.  I am just getting the feel for it.  I will give it a chance.

But one thing brought my "monkey mind" to a moment of outrage, and I just had to write this post.

I get a notifications from a Reminder.  I click on it and a pop-up window opens.  In v1, I could easily scroll through the entire Notes field of the task, see the extent of it, and read and review the text.  If there was a long Note, then I could see the size of it and view most of it at once.  It was functional.

In v2, the pop-up reminder window is of fixed size.  And there is a tiny little 2-line space for me to kind of see the Notes.  This is crazy!  Why?

I'm really caught between two feelings.  I don't want to be a jerk who just slags off on people after they've done hard work.  I do really appreciate the work and consideration that goes into MLO.  However, I am kind of astounded, and I want to communicate that.  I feel that functionality has been lost for the sake of form.

Cheers,

Nathan

[Nathan G]

A follow up question:  If I open a task from a reminder notification window, how do I then get to that task in Outline view?  That behavior was standard in v1, but in v2, I get bounced back to where I was previously working.

Explanation:

Say I'm using Profile One.

I get a reminder from a task in Profile Two, and I open the Task, first in the Notification pop-up, and from there in MLO.

Then I want to see this Task where it lives in the context of the Outline view, in Profile Two.  But if I press the back button, I bounce back to Profile One, where I was working before.

I want to have a reminder pop up, and be able to go to that task and work with it where it lives in Outline view.  How do I do that?