Thanks for the case study Brian. I have a couple of questions.
One is that several people have mentioned how desirable it would be to have the link in an MLO Task Note bring you back to a source document /in the app that manages it and not in a browser./ It looks to me as though when you click an Evernote link in a task note, It will raise the Evernote in a browser window. But I'm guessing that if you click the email link in the Evernote it will raise the original email in the Outlook app.
Is this correct? If not, how does it actually work? Do you have any issues or concerns with how this is working out?
Mulling it over, I think that I can see one clear advantage, which is that three or so clicks from the task note will get you to the full listing of the email headers in the original message. Sometimes you need that.
Other question, what stops you on mobile? I don't know anything about iPhone but on my Android phone I use the k-@tmail app as my email client. while reading an email, it takes about five clicks to pass the email content through the Android "share" mechanism to MLO, save it as a task and return to reading my mail. In the same five or so clicks I could have made the email into an Evernote, and then linked the Evernote to MLO they way that you are doing it. The main issue that I can see it that everything is working off of a copy of the email body text and title, so you don't have header info. Is that the issue?
-Dwight On 4/14/2016 3:27 PM, Brian Tinkler wrote:
I've been following this particular thread and found it interesting. Starting from MLO on mobile hasn't worked well for me. However, if I start the process from MLO for Windows, the mobile versions provide outstanding usability. I use MLO on 3 Windows machines, an Apple iPhone, and two Android tablets. I use Outlook on all of my Windows computers with the Evernote plug-in. I save an actionable (or referenceable) e-mail to Evernote, then save the link to the e-mail in Evernote in the notes section of MLO for any actionable e-mail. This way the e-mail is accessible anywhere on any device from MLO (and Evernote). I have all my e-mails that require action in MLO via linking from Evernote as just described. Most of the processing stage of my GTD practice happens in Evernote, with only actions being sent to MLO. It works great for me, albeit it requires a few steps so it took a little while for it to feel natural. Now, it's habit and a side benefit is that it allows me to use GTD's 2-minute rule in Outlook to determine if it's something that even needs to be sent to Evernote and/or MLO. Quite a few e-mails never make it to Evernote, and therefore never make it to MLO because there's no action required. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carsten Lilge Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:34 AM To: MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: MyLifeOrganized 2 for Android. Released! I was just trying to explain what I understood from working with iqtell and from reading their manual what they seem to be doing, I.e. linking to an email. I know that when using Gmail in a browser you can see the link in the address bar. But I'm no n technician so I don't know iqtell extracts that link. They are not the only ones doing that though. I currently use another very good task app called gqueues that does the same, but they only manage to link to an email when you use it in a browser, not on Android.
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