BusyCal vs MyLifeOrganized

Alarms may displayed in the BusyCal Alarm Window or the Notification Center. Snooze alarms for any duration, including x minutes before start, Set default alarm intervals for new Events, To Dos, All-Day Events, and Birthdays & Anniversaries.

Display a live 10-day weather forecast and moon phases. Drag-n-drop images into your calendar with the Graphics palette. Customize event fonts, sizes, styles and colors.

You can customize the number of weeks shown per month, or days shown per week

Create Smart Filters to display Calendar Sets, a custom view, or events that match a certain criteria with a single click.

To Dos can be displayed directly in your calendar and carry-forward until completed. To Dos in BusyCal are compatible and sync with the Reminders app on OS X and iOS.

Connections are more stable than in Calendar.

They're using google groups, but they're really responsive and friendly, also to beginners.

If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.

The text search is excellent. It comes with some default views, but you can create custom hierarchical and flat views, using some quite powerful logic, to focus on tasks by almost any criteria you can think of.

Create custom views by numerous filters and triggers.

Quickly and deeply manage your tasks .

Each Context may include other Contexts. This can form a hierarchy (or even a net) of contexts. For example Contexts "Phone" and "Internet" can be included to the Context "Work" as well as to the Context "Home".

A Context may have a schedule: specific times during which it is open or closed. If a Context you select as a To-Do filter is closed at the moment, the tasks associated with this Context will not be shown in the To-Do list.

This feature help user to visualize their daily workload in a graph form (mobile version) , so it assist to plan future tasks and events in a sense of work/life balance. Just simply connect to google calendar, you could view your events and tasks, and plan effectively.

MLO can parse or interpret the text you enter in Inbox on mobile and in some text input fields on Windows. For example you can enter "in 30 min" or "next Friday at 2pm" in date and time pickers. In Rapid Task Entry dialog you can even type: "Call Bob about the party tomorrow at 3pm remind 10 min in advance". The parameters of the task will be converted from the text automatically.

If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.

MLO (Window) can print PocketMod, which is a A4 paper that you can fold into a small booklet. Each page of this booklet can contain different information you select from the MLO app. It's very helpful especially on the occasion that you need to rely on paper only, such as camping, retreat, outdoor gaming activity, etc.

It is much cheaper than subscription-based apps . MLO license doesn't expire. Upgrade is optional and offered with a discount.

Easy to create your own workflow.

Robust implementation of recurrence options. You can set it to repeat every N day every N months, repeat N day after the completion the main task can recurs once all/any subtasks are completed, and other.

MLO automatically sorts the tasks in To-Do based on user input.

Excellent for organizing in the GTD style of David Allen.