When comparing MyLifeOrganized vs Joplin, the Slant community recommends Joplin for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform task apps?” Joplin is ranked 5th while MyLifeOrganized is ranked 40th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Pretty good Android app with Widget
Pro Helpful community
They're using google groups, but they're really responsive and friendly, also to beginners.
Pro Native windows app
Pro Hierarchy-based to-do list
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.
Pro Excellent search, filter and custom views
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.
Pro Custom views
Create custom views by numerous filters and triggers.
Pro Many customizable keyboard shortcut
Quickly and deeply manage your tasks .
Pro Context include other contexts
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".
Pro Open/closed hours for contexts
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.
Pro Calendar view and google calendar sync
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.
Pro Input parsing
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.
Pro Hierarchy-based to do list
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.
Pro PocketMod report
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.
Pro One-time purchase
It is much cheaper than subscription-based apps . MLO license doesn't expire. Upgrade is optional and offered with a discount.
Pro Highly customisable
Easy to create your own workflow.
Pro Flexible recurrence options
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.
Pro Auto prioritization of To-Do
MLO automatically sorts the tasks in To-Do based on user input.
Pro Best for GTD
Excellent for organizing in the GTD style of David Allen.
Pro Offline access
Pro Open source
Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app.
Pro Encryption
Pro Cross-platform
Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Pro Supports file attachments
Pro Supports markdown
Pro Supports tags for notes
Pro Web Clipper
Browser extension saves full pages, clean content, or screen selections to new notes.
Pro Optional CLI interface
Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers.
Pro Supports multiple languages
English, French, and Spanish, Italian, German, Czech and many others.
Pro Active user forum with support from app creators
Support, troubleshooting, and new feature requests are easy to make at the user forum and you can contact the app creator directly.
Pro Dropbox support
Can sync using Dropbox.
Pro Nextcloud support
Pro Timed alarm reminder for to-do lists
Cons
Con No web client
It would be great if they developed a web-based client.
Con No linux and mac client
There is support for Windows, iPhone, iPad, and both Android phones and tablets.
Con Expensive one-off cost, slow in releasing free updates
MLO does have quite a high price. However, this is a one-off price (per major version), so is much cheaper than web-based, subscription apps. The cloud synch feature, if you choose to have it, is low cost, so overall costs are low over the lifetime of the product.
Although the app is very solid and reliable (even for beta testers like me), updates And requested features can be long in development.
Con No support for previous versions
Con Complicated to start with
It needs some brains to set it up.
Con Sync issues with Android
If update on Linux then sync on Android, sometimes the Android sync will duplicate or remove some journal notes. Seems to be a bug in the Android app. The Linux app alone without sync with Android seems to work well using Dropbox. But don't expect changes you make on Android to sync properly back to Linux.
Con Sync issue under Linux
The Linux client has a bug that requires the user to click the mouse frequently in order for sync to proceed. This bug has been open for a while.
Con Gargantuan memory footprint
1GB+ of memory for taking notes.
Con Old school interface
Con Bloated
This project is suffering from feature creep and uses a lot of memory for a note-taking app.
Con App Image launches very slowly
On Linux, you can only install via App Image, which take 5+ seconds to launch. I can launch LibreOffice in under two seconds.
Con Sync issues on Windows
No way to change account settings and sync easily corrupted.
Con Weak tag searching
Joplin can currently only search for a single tag at a time. None of the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are available for use in searches. This greatly diminishes the usefulness of tags in Joplin.