Where are the MLO-provided templates documented?

[Danny Clark]

So I am a new user just starting to use the MLO program on Windows, and the very first interaction I have with the program itself, it asks me to choose a template, with choices "Traditional FranklinCovey", "Do It Tomorrow", "Getting Things Done - Beginners Action", "Getting Things Done - Zones of Focus", "Getting Things Done - Zoom for Focused Action", "Getting Things Done with FranklinCovey Roles", and "FlyLady - Control Journal".

I can't find even a sentence talking about what any of these are anywhere. I've read GTD it was pretty easy to google for Franklin Covey and Fly Lady, but the different "varieties" of GTD I can't find anything about. Specifically I've used Google (looking in a lot of different ways), searched in the mlo.chm help file, and looked in the ReadMe.txt. 

I read GTD a while ago, so it is possible he talks about these things, just not using these exact words, but still, some doc would be nice. Even a brief paragraph for each of them describing what it is, what its goals are, and how it differs from the other choices would be great. I know I could just look around inside the files the templates produce, and am in the process of doing so, but given my lack of experience with the everyday use of the program, knowing the intent of the template designer(s) would help a lot in increasing the probability of not starting off on the wrong foot / my feeling good and as confident as I can at the start of using the software.

IMHO the best way to handle this would be to put the description in the template file format itself, and then have the chooser dialog present that information. That way it would also be useful for third party templates.

[Danny Clark]

I haven't been able to find doc anywhere, but looking at them it's not too hard to figure out.

However I wouldn't call them "Templates" so much as "Examples to copy from as you go along"; they have a whole lot of tasks, and that is cumbersome and confusing esp. if you are doing any kind of syncing that isn't just to another MLO for Windows instance.

IMHO a useful feature would be to be able to mark subtrees to not be synced; although I'm new and might just be missing that, or it's probably already in the database and I'll go find it and vote for it :-)

[Lisa Stroyan]

That's a great idea! 

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Danny Clark <da...@opensysadmin.com> wrote:

IMHO the best way to handle this would be to put the description in the template file format itself, and then have the chooser dialog present that information. That way it would also be useful for third party templates.

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Lisa

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Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstr...@gmail.com