Nice review of MLO (v.4)

Posted by Pixelpunker
Sep 24, 2018 at 04:07 PM

Used it for years as a replacement for LifeBalance on the Palm PDA and the Mac when I switched to Windows.
Took a quick look at the new version and only see superficial change. I think it still suffers from database / programmer guy think. Every task has about a hundred different properties in a dozen tabbed subpanels you can set, many of them redundant.
I noticed for LifeBalance as well that I’m only digging two features. One, flexible repeats for repeating errands. And two the fuzzy logic for calculating the relative importance of a task considering the importance of its parent task.
I don’t need an endless level of subtasks. This is not project management software, at least I don’t need that for my personal planning.
What I also don’t understand about all these custom views and filters. I do, on average, about 3 tasks a day. If I would plan ahead for a whole year we’re talking a thousand tasks. For at maximum 1000 tasks I don’t need elaborate filtering, tagging, searching and customizing. Total overkill.
One positive I have to add, for those who feel uncomfortable with cloud services the phone app offers local and free wifi syncing to the desktop app. This you won’t find anywhere else.