As 2017 draws to a close and it is a good time to pause and reflect on how productive you were over the past twelve months.Open the “Revi...

Happy Holidays from the MyLifeOrganized Team!

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As 2017 draws to a close and it is a good time to pause and reflect on how productive you were over the past twelve months.Open the “Review” and “Goals” views in MLO to check what you planned for 2017, see what you completed, when you were the most productive. Everyone has ups and downs, but don’t kick yourself for what went wrong, focus on what went right and pick out the learnings that help you succeed in the next year. And be ruthless - remove activities from your list that don’t support delivery of any of your priorities. All this will help you maintain perspective and meet the end of the year with total control.

We are also looking back at 2017 that was very productive for MyLifeOrganized team. We released great updates for iPhone and iPad task manager with Siri reminders processing, 3d Touch & widgets and other features you asked. We also significantly improved widgets in our Android task manager and added counters, flags, backup and archive along with other minor features.

Although not all the things we put on our list for 2017 have been achieved, you can be sure that our team never stops working hard to help you organize your life and reach your main goals. The new 2018 year is going to be full of major updates and we are not going to slow down around the holiday season... At the very beginning of the year we hope to please you with the new version of MyLifeOrganized v.5 for Windows with a new streamlined UI and features you asked for (if you have not watched the presentation video yet, follow this link). Our lucky guys from MLO Beta team are already testing it.We will also put more effort to MLO apps and your suggestions are always vital to ensure we provide what our users need. A large update is planned for MLO on Android with many new features you requested. MLO on iOS also won’t be left without our attention. Step by step we are moving  forward on our list of improvements.

Hope you can turn the holiday season into something inspiring. You’ve worked hard all year, so take the time to enjoy yourself, share the time with your loved ones, laugh, love and live! Use this magic time to draft your priorities for next year until new challenges fill your mind again. Launch a new project, start your next online course, or sit down and write that book right away.

Do you have your own strategy for using holiday time effectively? We’d love to hear your own ideas in the comments!

Thank you for your continued support and Happy Holidays!

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Ready for the new version of MyLifeOrganized on Windows? Here is another gift we have prepared for the upcoming Holidays - MyLifeOrganized v...

Overview of MyLifeOrganized v.5 for Windows

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Ready for the new version of MyLifeOrganized on Windows? Here is another gift we have prepared for the upcoming Holidays - MyLifeOrganized v.5 presented by CEO Andrey Tkachuk. Check out the video below!

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We have already released the new version to our wonderful team of beta testers to make sure the product provides excellent user experience without any glitches. A bit later there will be a public beta release available for you to test the updates. Hope you will like it!

Happy Holidays!


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Dear friends!  We really wanted to please you with a gift for the upcoming holidays and here is it! We are happy to announce one more hot a...

Holiday gift for Android users: Multiselect in MyLifeOrganized

Dear friends! 

We really wanted to please you with a gift for the upcoming holidays and here is it! We are happy to announce one more hot and long-awaited feature for your MyLifeOrganized Android to do list - Multiselect.



As a general rule, you can open this feature using Bottom menu. Select the Multiselect mode after a single tap the menu in the bottom right corner.

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Having done this, you will be able to select several tasks or folders with only several taps. Thus, you may move, copy, cut or delete the selected items at once.
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Tip. You may also select either all or none of the elements available within the current view. Please find this option on the top panel. 
 
For instance, we would like to move several tasks to the top position within the outline. Having entered the Multiselect mode, select the necessary tasks on the right and tap the move icon, which is first (that is “Move selected tasks”):


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You will see a set of destinations you can move your tasks to. Now all you have to do is to choose the desired destination, which in our case will be “Root Top”:

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Done? Tap “Move Task” to apply changes.

Moving several selected tasks at once can be extremely useful when you process your Inbox folder for example. Just select several tasks related to the same project and move all of them to this project.


Cutting tasks allows us to insert them in other place even in different profile, while deletion removes them completely.


If you wish to return from Multiselect mode, use a back tap or just tap “Done” to close it. 


Tip. You would need to run the Pro version to use the Multiselect feature. 


Do not hesitate and try all the options of this truly great feature to save lots of time in future. As always, we are happy to receive your impressions, considerations and other feedback.


Happy Holidays!




The MyLifeOrganized team
Life is easy when organized


 

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Guys, we have something to tell users who are interested in a native version of MLO for Mac OS. If it’s you, please read on.  Note: if y...

MyLifeOrganized for Mac News



Guys, we have something to tell users who are interested in a native version of MLO for Mac OS. If it’s you, please read on. 

Note: if you subscribed to our "MLO for Mac" news, you should have already received the same email.
First of all, we would like to thank you for playing an active role in the development of our product, your feedback is very important for us!

As you may know, MLO-Mac has been in our plans for a long time. Now we are at a moment when we must have the final cost estimates. As a small team we have to be pragmatic and carefully allocate resources.

We must admit we received more MLO-Mac subscribers than expected which indicates there is considerable interest in MLO-Mac. This triggered us to take initial steps towards MLO-Mac development by preparing to port the iOS version to Mac. But there is still a lot of work before MLO-Mac is ready for release. On the other hand, a number of users would prefer a web version. That’s why we need your vote again.

We’ve prepared a short survey to find out if our users’ preferences have changed. Its results will dictate the way forward for MLO development and will help us to set timelines for improvements and additions.


Your opinion is crucial for us. There are just a few questions and it will take not more than 1-2 minutes. We appreciate your time and hope to reward you with improved software and service. Thank you!

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Great news for MyLifeOrganized iOS Task Manager users – MLO now supports 3D Touch and Widget! What is the point of this update? If you’...

Long-awaited update in MLO for iOS: 3D Touch & Widget

Great news for MyLifeOrganized iOS Task Manager users – MLO now supports 3D Touch and Widget!
What is the point of this update? If you’re an avid Apple user, then you are really going to love MLO's latest update based on 3D touch technology (available on iPhone 6S and later). With our new set of features you can now enjoy a few additional extras that are bound to enhance your MLO experience. Now you can use the most helpful MLO commands from 3D Touch menu and from Widget. These commands not only represent the most frequent and useful actions, but also provide for flexible user customization.
Note: You would need to run the Pro version to use the new 3D Touch and Widget feature.
You may access 3D Touch features by force pressing the MLO app icon. Here is how it looks:
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Let us consider 3D Touch first. In order to configure 3D Touch, please open MLO->Settings->3D Touch.
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3D Touch settings
As you will see, there is a list of three default quick actions which you can also modify if necessary:
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Please tap Edit and in Quick Action option select an action from the list of five available action types: “Add new task”, “Add reminder”, “Open view”, “Search task”, as well as “Open URL”. We will consider most of them in detail.
The first action type is called “Add new task”.
As you may guess, this action is intended for adding a task to Inbox or any branch of the selected profile. You may also configure its title to distinguish it from other actions, as well as choose the profile and the parent task it will be added to (if parent is not set the task will be added to Inbox). In our case it is “Home”:


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Here’s what you’ll get:
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When a user selects the "Add reminder" action type, the new reminder quick entry dialog shows up. This action is used to quickly set a reminder for a new task and our new dialog is specially designed so that you can do it really fast.
This one is easy to use it as it has a familiar interface for setting a reminder — as usual, you are to choose date and time, and tap “Save”:
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As the result, a new task added immediately gets a reminder that will show up in the preset date and time:
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As for the “Open view” action, it opens the specified view in a particular profile (for example, “Active by Context” in your work profile). Besides, you may also choose workspace and zoom for a branch (which is optional). At last we name the action by setting its title:
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To have a view included to the list of views enable it in the “Edit Views” menu:
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The next action type, “Search task”, opens a search dialog with an optional predefined search string. It has 3 settings, they are its title, the profile where a task is going to be searched, and the third being the optional field to set the search text to be entered when using this quick action.
As you can see, MLO automatically uses the predefined search text (“buy”) when searching for a task:


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There is one more action type which we decided to introduce for 3D Touch, it is called “Custom URL”. Many iOS applications have their own list of URL schemas that you can use to perform certain actions in these apps. For example, to run Chrome app and open a page in it you may execute this URL command: googlechrome://example.com . MLO is going to have its own URL Schema (the list of commands) which we will describe later on. Thus, this small action opens up a rich field of possibilities as you can enter any URL of any application (including MLO) to execute a specific command. Please refer to the syntax documentation of the necessary app for details.
As for Widget, it works and is configured much the same way, but is available not only through long tap, but also by swiping down from above (iOS 10) or swiping right (on iOS 11).
The icons of the widget represent this or that action:
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Note: Only top 4 actions will be displayed in 3D Touch and Widget. The actions may be removed later.
Do you enjoy this update? Please feel free to comment.

Best wishes,
The MyLifeOrganized team
Life is easy when organized

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One more surprise to be announced today: the feature of archiving and deleting completed tasks is now available for your Android Task Manag...

Archive Completed Tasks: Now in MLO for Android

One more surprise to be announced today: the feature of archiving and deleting completed tasks is now available for your Android Task Manager!

Note: This functionality has been released as an experimental feature for now. Learn more how to get it.

Why do we need this function? You perform tasks day after day and the profile grows, slowing down the application, piling up the current view and creating discomfort. How to solve this problem? It is difficult to manually find all the old tasks that have been performed. In addition, you may not want to delete them altogether, but leave them just in case or for reference. What is the optimal solution in these cases? Archive! Transfer old completed tasks to another profile, freeing the current profile and leaving them for other purposes in another profile.


This feature was previously available only in the desktop version and Android users had to archive using the sync with their PCs. From now on Archive/Purge tasks can be found in MLO settings, within the Profile section on your Android device and you can use it even if you do not have MLO on your PC. Let us explore this new feature in detail. 


Tip: Archiving is necessary to prevent possible slowdown when using the app. 

The first setting allows to run archiving at any moment for a particular branch or for the entire outline. The default for this would be “All tasks”, but you may change it anytime.



Next, we set how old completed tasks must be to be archived. The task must have been completed on or before this date to be archived or purged.

After that we may tap to set two more things (the default for these is on):
  1. Clean out only those tasks with all subtasks completed;
  2. Not to archive subtasks within open projects and recurrent tasks, which means you would need to complete the whole project or finalize the recurrent parent task to archive such completed subtasks.

Having done this, you should select the Action performed with this option. There are three options: you may just copy old tasks (without deleting them from their current position), you may move old tasks (from the current profile to a profile intended for archiving), or purge them (meaning their full deletion). To be on the safe side, you can use the "copy" option just to test what tasks will be archived when you set the "move" option later.

Are you done? Make sure you selected the profile in “Move old tasks to archive” and click “Archive tasks”. Be ready to confirm the operation and wait until the process is over. 

Tip: If you sync tasks to other devices, you should run archive only on a single device. The best place to set up automatic archive is MLO Desktop if you use it. 

We've also prepared a video with a brief overview of the new feature:


Stay with us! Feel free to ask questions and share your impressions, we appreciate your feedback. 

Note: You would need to run the Pro version to use the new archive feature. 

Best wishes,
The MyLifeOrganized team
Life is easy when organized



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We are glad to let you know that MyLifeOrganized iOS Task Manager  has been taught to add reminders using voice! MLO users have long bee...

MLO for iOS: add tasks by voice using Siri



We are glad to let you know that MyLifeOrganized iOS Task Manager has been taught to add reminders using voice!

MLO users have long been asking us to connect Siri to MLO through the Reminders app. Why would we need that and what is it for?

As you know, in iOS there is a standard application called Reminders. iOS allows you to use Siri, the built-in voice assistant, to add new reminders to the Reminders app. In other words, you can say “Hey Siri” and literally dictate a new task indicating the reminder time. Such task will first be added to the Reminders system app:

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And we’ve made it exactly as you asked — you can dictate a new Siri reminder and after launching the MLO this task will be in <Inbox>. This makes the reminders adding process effortless and quick.

Let us consider how to set it up.

First, we tap to activate the "Import reminders" setting in MLO Settings-> Reminders. Next, we select the list from the Reminders app to be processed by MLO:


Tip. To make it more organized, you can create a separate reminder list in Reminders specifically intended for MLO. In this case other lists will not be processed.

Now we just add a new reminder to this list in Reminders and launch the MLO.

Thus, at the time of launch, MLO will transfer all tasks from the chosen list in the Reminders app to the <Inbox> folder in MLO with given reminder time or assigning the appropriate context for the location-based reminder (if set):


We've also prepared a video with a brief overview of the new feature:


 

Be assured — you are bound to be twice productive with the new Siri reminder functionality in MyLifeOrganized. This feature gives you a new lease when you need to take prompt decisions and produce effective solutions. On top of that, you are now provided with a whole new method for creating planning systems and lists.  

Note: You would need to run the Pro version to use the new feature "iOS Reminders".

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A great improvement has been added to MyLifeOrganized Android task manager – the latest update concerns the feature of Statistics. This ca...

Statistics — Being Smarter with Android Task Manager

A great improvement has been added to MyLifeOrganized Android task manager – the latest update concerns the feature of Statistics. This can be accessed through MLO settings in Profile section.

Note: This functionality has been released as an experimental feature for now. Learn more how to get access to it.

Statistics deals with gathering data to explore the usage of various items available within the app. As you can see, these include the total to-do items, completed tasks, projects, flags, as well as many others. How many tasks and suspended projects do I have? How many of them did I complete yesterday? How many tasks did I add last year? To these and other questions a new statistics feature gives the answer.

For instance, here is how the screen looks like for Completed tasks and for Projects. As you can see, there are 25 tasks completed this week and there are 3 suspended projects in the current profile.


Make your own investigation to discover how you may improve your way of planning and organizing. You may track your progress, compare data in your profiles using different strategies, as well as study your diligence. Furthermore, this allows you to evaluate the profile for the number of old tasks and decide on the archiving (will be described in another article). Any other ideas? Feel free to share them with us!

Tip: You would need to run the Pro version to use the new Statistics feature.
We've also prepared a video with a brief overview of the new feature:



Remember: Life is easy when organized, twice easy when statistized!

Best wishes,
The MyLifeOrganized team

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Friends, we have a new vital feature to announce! This one is called Backup/Restore Profile and allows to carry out backup (with no sy...

New in MyLifeOrganized on Android: backup

Friends, we have a new vital feature to announce!

This one is called Backup/Restore Profile and allows to carry out backup (with no synchronization) into a file, as well as to restore it back when necessary. You can backup and restore all your tasks, contexts and flags, as well as views stored in the current profile. This is useful for example when you change your phone and want to transfer your MLO data to it.   

Note: the synchronization is still the best way to backup your tasks in real time and to share them with other devices. Backup to a file feature is only useful if you do not use the sync.
The feature is available in MLO settings, within the Profile section.


Let us start with the backup feature itself. When you have opened the option, tap the desired elements and click “Backup profile”. You will be asked to enter the desired password or leave empty to create a backup with no password. Done? Great! Then just click “Create”.

Tip: You may tap to backup either only tasks, contexts, flags, or views, as well as tap for both.


When the creation is over, you will be informed of the file storage location, its name, as well as offered to send it by e-mail. Depending on your installed apps and services, you may have some other possible types of destination available besides e-mail as well.

Now let’s restore the profile using the second option. For this you just need to click the button “Restore from backup…” and select the necessary backup (.mlobak) file you created earlier. MLO will request the password if you added it when the backup was created.

MLO will also propose you to switch to the restored profile, which can be done by a single click.


As you can see, all this is pretty simple and can be used just by doing several clicks. Just go and create your backup to always feel safe and protected. Besides, this is one more superfeature for adjustments and complicated task management systems.

Tip: You would need to run the Pro version to use the backup feature.

Stay tuned!

Best wishes,
The MyLifeOrganized team

Life is easy when organized

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