Calendar overview
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ALFRED commented
for ipad, iphone and desktop
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ALFRED commented
This feature us very important for me
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James D commented
I want MLO list tasks that are due on a particular date to be synced to and shown on my mobile phone and web calendars, such as Google Calendar, without any extra work required other than first-time setup. Ability to sync by sync with an .ics file via web DAV would be great too.
Within MLO, I want a view that shows a day, week, or month at a time (toggle between) and on the selected day(s), shows the tasks that are due or due to start (start date), along with any calendar appointments synced back to MLO (via a configurable sync) from the external calendar.And of course, I want the full complement of normal MLO filtering options to be available to control what does and doesn't show in the calendar view. -
LotsOfTasks commented
I agree that some kind of Calendar View/Display would be helpful for visualizing when Tasks are scheduled, and also for drag/drop ability for planning when to do some Tasks. Some additional thoughts:
-Ability to display Calendar at same time as other Views; option for displaying at top or bottom (and maybe also either side?) of window;
-Option for Day Display (which could be configurable to be more than one day, eg, 2 days, 3 days), Week Display (option to configure as being between 7 and 5 days), and Month Display. Each of these 3 Displays should remember their subwindow size and position (eg, top and 300px tall), as it will probably be different for each one (eg, the Month Display will need more space than the Week Display, in order to be useable).
-Perhaps have a Gantt-like-mode, where we can drag a Task onto another Task to create a Dependency (ie, drag Task2 onto Task1 to make Task2 dependent on completion of Task1), and display Dependencies in a Gantt-like manner.
-Option to only display Tasks on the Calendar that have a Date. Dragging a Task onto the Calendar could then assign it a Start and Due Date of that Date. Dragging either side of the Task could then change those Dates--this could function like how Outlook handles All-Day (ie, no time) Appointments, which is basically what Tasks are. I realize that MLO Tasks can have a Time as well, but I think we might be asking a bit much of the developer and the Calendar interface if we want it to also display things at a time-level too.Just for reference, here's two other threads related to Calendar and/or Gantt display:
https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/3509561-close-the-gap-between-the-todo-list-and-the-schedu
https://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/2516738-add-gantt-chart -
Emily Williams commented
@Roy - You can already sync to google calendar in a sort of roundabout way - MLO to Outlook to Google Apps Sync (so you need a paid Google account), but then you'll get to sync your MLO tasks with Google Tasks, so dated tasks will show up the same way dated Google Tasks do.
That said, yeah, any kind of supported, non-weird-configuration don't-have-to-pay-more-money (Outlook's not free either ;-) calendar overview anywhere would be pretty sweet.
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Markus Schulte commented
Calender would be great! Show tasks and their structure on the left side in one window, show start date / end date / dependencies in calendar on the right side, scalable
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E P commented
Interestingly I can create a calendar event (to S Planner) from a task on my Samsung Note 10.1 which then goes to Google cal... however a MLO calendar on the desktop would be great ... certainly save some keystrokes and mental gymnastics.
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Niall commented
Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please
sync with whatever - BUT also allow it to be used comprehensively WITHOUT any third party syncing. -
Roy commented
SYNC WITH GOOGLE CALENDAR
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Richard Collings commented
Alex: don't underestimate the value of the new features in V4 - the ability to have multiple tabs and to open more than one window on a single file have made MLO much easier to use. And I finding the ability to filter Outlines useful (despite not being an enthusiast).
That said, Calendar remains at the top of my list of critical missing features. At the moment, I use Outlook calendar to plan my time - duplicating key tasks from my MLO Outline as appointments in Outook to block in time when I am going to work on them in order to try and establish what I can get done by when. Which is massively wasteful.
But I can see that it is potentially a complex piece of functionality to add so I can understand why it has not made it into V4. So the more postings people make here to say that it is the vital piece of next functionality the better. If Andrey can see a good revenue stream from adding this new area to MLO, then I know that this will encourage him to put it top of the list.
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Alex Spirin commented
Calendar view with drag&drop is the only feature I would pay for if it would be in ver. 4
When I got email about update I thought "At last they added calenar" but I was deeply disappointed. Version 4 is about cosmetic updates. Present users need it very much and you will get back those ones who left only cose you hadn't calendar.
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Andrey commented
Please add the calendar feature to MLO. MLO is powerful, but due to the lack of this feature, I have migrated some projects (with hard date dependency) to ToDoList.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5371/ToDoList-6-6-b1-Beta-Release-An-effective-and-flex -
Marco Panichi commented
I want to comment this feature again...It would be fantastic!
(drag&drop todos into the agenda...) -
J. Garza commented
Calendar and Timeline views would take this wonderful program to the next level. !!!
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Damo commented
Just to add to this (I googled it, and found this post, forgetting I had posted it before :-) ).
When I start the week, I look at my calendar, and decide what tasks I'm going to do on what days, fitting around my booked schedule, and deadlines.
- iOS Reminders's default view is a 'tasks by day' view
- MS Outlook calendar shows 'tasks by day' on the bottom
- OminFocus shows 'tasks by day'
- Many ToDo/GTD apps have 'Today', 'Next days (by day)', 'Sometime' viewsMLO *needs* this. I need this!
To re-iterate. "Due date" is the 'last minute', 'due by this date' timestamp - it can't be used for planning the date you actually plan to work on the task, as you should ideally do it some time before, as is good GTD practice.
In an ideal world, I would be able to:
- Let MLO iPhone / Desktop dynamically load my Outlook/iOS Calendar into its own calendar
- Let me 'drag and drop' tasks from my various MLO task views into the slots between my scheduled appointments, based on my own planning
- Provide reminders/a 'now' view to keep focus and action these tasks, as the day progressesAs a bonus:
- Let MLO review my intended task scheduling, and show any obvious exceptions (eg. a task with a due date soon is not yet planned; a task's due date is after the planned work date/time; a task is planned to be worked on, but the dependancy has not been completed; etc.I'll file this as a separate Feature Request, as it may diverge from the basic calendar view.
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Penny Nelson commented
I agree Calendar view is a must. I use android but would be happy to sync with Google Calendar as my other Calendar programs sync with that.
Personally I use CalenGoo on my phone because of its simple agenda interface & ease of syncing with multiple calendars & multiple todo lists. I'm not keen on Outlook syncing purely because of Microsofts insistance that it be sold separate to the basic Microsoft Office suite. So there are going to be some end users like myself who don't access it.
In my perfect world I an agenda listed by days that shows my outstanding tasks for each day with a tick box that I can tick off that syncs to MLO. Not too fussed if its within MLO or it can be synced to CalenGoo. -
Luca Luca commented
I Agree with a calendar feature, I need it.
I need a view by day, week, month -
Richard Collings commented
I tink Damo's suggestion is correct in principle - there needs to be something that allows us to indicate when we 'plan' to do a task. The question is how to handle tasks that potentially spread over several days.because you may want to spread the time spent on such tasks unevenly across those days (due to other commitments, etc). I tend to create sub-tasks (Task X Day 1, Task X Day2, etc) in order to do this but I am not sure whether this is the best approach
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Damo Skees commented
The trick is here, we might need two sets of start/end dates. ie.
- The current set (there is no point starting this task before.... / this task is due by).
- A new set, for calendar view (I INTEND to start this task on / I INTEND to finish this task on)ie. If my new webinar proposal is due by next Friday, I intend to work on it in a quiet day this week (say Wednesday). But as I put it back and put it back and de-prioritise, I don't want to lose sight of the hard end date.
I'd like the calendar view to be a '43 folders' enabler. ie. if I decide to schedule a task for a given day, then I want to soft-schedule it for that day, and see what other tasks I have for that day - in a calendar view (but not in Outlook - it would be too cluttered).
AND - I want to be able to use it to manage my 'Top 10 goals for this year' view as well. ie. higher level tasks and calendar: "These next 6 weeks, i want to learn to sail. These next two weeks, I need to study for my professional exam". Maybe flip between these using categories.
Or does anyone already know of such an app?
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Anonymous commented
Mlo is disabled without calendar view.... and hope dunging to calendar software will be something on android but not google