MLO becoming a full PIM software (email, contacts, calendar, notes)

[robisme (Olivier R)]

How great MLO would be as a full pim software.

The ergonomy and features of MLO are unique and could be used for more than only tasks

Imagine being able to link tasks and contacts, action and contextualize emails, use calendars events as projects , etc.

The software "EssentialPim" is not far from this utopic tool, and even comes with an Android and iPhone app.

But the way it manages tasks is far from being as powerfull as MLO is.

Does it make sense?

Olivier

[Andrei Bacean]

Hi, nice idea

but the development and support will take a lot of time.

My current email database is > 2Gb, so integration of email into MLO will make it less portable.

I used a long time ago a bundle called DoOrganizer. It had email, notes, passwords, calendar, a simple mindmappibg tool, contacts and so on. It was developed by a small team, and although the product was great, the development was very very slow. They even closed their forum due to a lack of feedback from the developers

Developing such bundles is a big challenge.

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Yes, I used it (Harmony Pim was its new name).

It was coming with a lot of gadget features, imho.

EssentialPim is closer from what I think MLO could be.

It certainly is a big challenge, but I constantly wonder how could I separate todos from contacts and appointments, and presently, having not them connected makes me feel unconfortable.

By the way, considering the price of the current version,such a full pim app would certainly be worth more than $100, I'd be willing to pay in advance as a subscription for future release.

I'm pretty sure some of us would also be willing to.

Am I wrong?

Olivier

[Elizabeth Lindsay]

Honestly, I do not want all of that merged into one tool.  I find MLO to be pretty darn good as it stands today.  I'm one of the rare people who doesn't want a calendar - I find I prefer to see my items as a list by due date.  Calendar events are different than items with a due date (in my opinion).  Plus, as a few other people commented, adding in this extra development increases cost, which I would prefer to avoid.

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Olivier. I am actually headed in the other direction. In the late 20^th century I happily used several monolithic PIMS: the palm pilot and later, Lotus Notes synched with Blackberry. Monolithic approaches are no longer so appealing. What I like now is a collection of interoperable best-in-class tools. For several reasons having to do with my idiosyncratic way of working, I like K-@Mail best for mail, and aCalendar+ for calendars. Neither of these are the world’s most popular apps, but they work well for me. If MLO demanded that I give up my apps and move everything under the big MLO umbrella I would probably be upset, as it’s unlikely that MLO’s calendar app would suit me as well, for example. And if it did suit me well it’s likely that it would not suit you or somebody else.

 

Luckily for me, interoperability has gotten easier. K-@Mail, aCalendar+, MsOutlook my phone’s dialer and Google Hangouts (for SMS and MMS among other things) all work cleanly and easily with contacts stored and managed in Google Contacts. Even Skype now takes contacts from Outlook which in turn (via GO Contact Sync) took them from Google. MLO does not work with any external source of contact info; MLO should fix that.

 

Here are some of the interoperability features that I would like to see. It’s Android-centric, please imaging the equivalent functions for your favorite platform.

-          Link a task to a contact. Actually, link a task to multiple contacts, with tags like DelegatedBy, DelegatedTo, and FYI

-          In one or two clicks, link an Evernote note to a MLO task, so that the contents of the Evernote note are logically incorporated into the task’s note

-          Send a task (delegation of a task, status report on task execution) to linked contacts or others using some interchange format similar to .ics

-          Export tasks to a native task manager like outlook, google tasks, or whatever. For bonus points, let me define a special view in MLO such that all tasks that appear in that view will get synched to the local native task manager. So for example, on Android I could connect my To Do Today view to Google Tasks, and a simplified view of these tasks would appear on my calendar. For even more bonus points, changes I make on the Android side (completion, edits to description, etc) would get copied back to MLO while preserving all the data elements (urgency, dependency, context) that do not exist in Google

-          Option to send MLO reminders/alarms to email

And so on . . .

-Dwight

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[robisme (Olivier R)]

Hi,
I absolutly agree with you.
Perhaps what I want is MLO opening to other datas.
I miss the linking and grouping tasks by contact.
I miss the Evernote linking.

But even if it is done in the Android ecosystem, nothing garanties me to find those linked items in the desktop app, that's m'y point.

[James D]

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 1:53:16 PM UTC-8, robisme (Olivier R) wrote:

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I miss the Evernote linking.

But even if it is done in the Android ecosystem, nothing garanties me to find those linked items in the desktop app, that's m'y point.

 I use Evernote with MLO all the time.  Simply paste an Evernote "note link" into the Notes area of the MLO task.  

I generally leave a couples spaces around the link in the MLO note so I can click and edit without triggering the Evernote hyperlink.

To get a note link in Evernote, right-click on the note in the list of notes, and then select "Copy Note Link".  Then paste the link from the clipboard into the MLO task notes field.

I normally only do this in the Windows desktop app.  

On my desktop Windows 7 PC, clicking the note link in MLO notes will first, briefly bring up first Evernote web app, and then it will flash over to and bring up the note in the Windows Evernote app.

Works like a charm for me.  

In the Android MLO app, clicking on the link in the notes field will take you to the note in the Android Evernote app.