WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline

Name: WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline
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User Reviews for WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline

It's what it needs to be

I am a subscriber and active user of the full version for Windows. So far I have found the iOS version to be a good balance between usability and familiarity. I can, in a comfortable and natural way, access the common features I need to use. While a lot of users feel that it is missing some of the power user features of the desktop version, I prefer that over the somewhat awkward Rube Goldberg approach taken by HandyFlowy, the iOS clone that has the power-features, but in a package with a ton of hieroglyphic buttons. With iOS, you don't have all the same controls that you have in the Windows environment. I'm certainly open to a full feared version in iOS, but perfect one that preserves the elegant simplicity where the functionality isn't in your face, but rather hidden in the keyboard commands.

5BPM, Jun 01, 2017

Perfect For Non-Linear Thinkers

Full disclosure: I use this for personal task management but I realize others use it for far more. One of the great myths in time/task/project management land is that one task is a function of exactly one hierarchy... the world simply isn’t that way. A given task might live among a dozen hierarchies. Including (but far from limited to): •Who For/Constituency•Due When•What Project/Context•Is it merely an idea you need to write down before forgetting. •Urgency•Best time or place to do it•Delegated to whom? When do I need to check on them? The tag system is dirt simple and it just works. I’ve done bullet journals, I’ve done spreadsheets, I’ve done Franklin Planner. I’ve counted on my brain alone. I’ve done scraps of paper strewn across my desk. I am back to Workflowy. The incessant re-writing of tasks required by Franklin or Bullet doesn’t work for me. It’s tedious and that time is not value added. My penmanship is atrocious. The spreadsheet thing gets complicated with work and home life. Instead of adapting my brain to an external system, I’m using a system to adapt to my brain. Welcome back to my life, Workflowy. It’s been a couple of years. I missed you.

Bass Player Chris, Mar 01, 2021

The good the bad and the ugly

I've been using Workflowy for about 5 years and I pay the subscription fee every year. I use this app as a first step in the writing process and not for tasks. Functionally, it's great. Simple and fast to capture ideas. You can easily move sections around (on web platform) and the export function is decent. It's cross platform since it resides on web. The bad: As a paying customer I expected more attention to improving the features and customizations. Why do you not support markup? Why can't I selectively change font color, size or imbed images? Why can't I change background color? The ugly: This app has been left untouched for a long, long while. What the heck?! One annoying part of the functionality is the floating bar that always pops up over the words I'm trying to type. It would be nice to 3D touch on a bullet point and have to option to indent or de indent or move it etc. The app lacks severely the same functionality as the web app. At $50 bucks a year, and no sign of development, im kinda wondering if it's worth it. Hopefully we start seeing some action from the developer. I know from reading the reviews that some of us like to actually support the developer of good apps with our cash, but we also want to see continuous improvement and functionality.

Coolcakephoto, Jun 08, 2017

My Most Used App

I have been using Worflowy on an almost daily basis for years. It is a clean, easy to use product that uses a simple outline format that I find useful for all of my note-taking needs. I am a prodigious e-book reader and I capture ideas and quotes from everything I read by just cutting and pasting text directly into Worflowy. The tab button indents automatically so organizing information is quick, and once entered, the "touch and move"feature, along with the editing, highlighting and search options allow you to format and easily locate your text depending on your own specific search criteria. I also use this for my todo lists, for brainstorming and capturing ideas, storing my favorite internet sites and links, long term planning, keeping track of my accomplishments and bucket list items... everything! After several years, I have pages and pages of well organized information in one place that I can retrieve with just a few search terms. I would call this a grown-up app for people who want to keep track of any kind of data in any form. This is my most used app and I would be lost without it.

Duff Nobles, Jan 03, 2021

Essential functionality/tool, crappy app

I use WorkFlowy as my only tool to organize my entire life. After years of trying a lot of things, I was using a simple synced note pad, and WorkFlowy is an obvious improvement over that and very flexible for personal organizational preferences and styles.That said, why is the app so bad? Why is it so un-thoughtfully translated from keyboard to multi-touch? How about adding some context menus and checkboxes or something? Why is it just flat out buggy, with things not showing up, things getting stuck, etc.? I emailed about a bug, got a reply, and a fix didn’t show up for months - and it’s still only partially fixed. I would gladly pay more for this per month if the app was designed better and worked as expected. Very frustrating.

jaskn50000, Mar 13, 2021

An Indispensable part of my workflow

WorkFlowy is a program I have left and returned to a couple of times. Now, again, I am using the app daily. That says I can’t replace the app though I have been enticed with more complex or structured to do apps as enough for my work. WorkFlowy’s ease of use, availability across devices, flexible tags, and speed captures ideas and details in a way that fills a creative and thought gap that the other more structured organizational apps do not. When I return to WorkFlowy after trying other apps says that I can’t replace it with fancier or more expensive options. It is working well. Now I have leaned into WorkFlowy strengths and doing that has helped me to settle on the other pieces I need for structure more easily and to stop hopping around. The recent update has been excellent. I like the program and the developers’ responsiveness. Great job. Easy to recommend.

JDB4, May 23, 2018

Only app I pay subscription for

Summary: this app serves as my all-purpose notepad for temporary as well as long-term text storage. What I love:- replaces iPhone Notepad app (there is no benefit to using notepad anymore)- flawless, almost real-time syncing across phone and laptop (and wife’s phone)- super flexible sharing (I can just send anyone a link to view/edit any part of my notes)- non-tree structure (wiki style) allows the same note to appear in multiple places (so I don’t have to pick the one exact perfect place to store things)- automatic backups to Dropbox so I have no fear of losing work (I’ve never once needed this feature, but it’s comforting)What I don’t use it for:- tasks that I want to “disappear” and never see again (I use Todoist)- anything that has a date on which I need to be alerted (iPhone calendar + Todoist)- anything that needs a bunch of formatting (Word)- anything that needs automatic totaling / formulas (Excel)But...(Developers please read this part!)I don’t need Workflowy to do everything. The greatest thing about this app is that it knows its own niche. Please don’t add too many features that lead it away from what it’s so great at doing:Plain text editing with super fast interface.I need it to take the place of PAPER, not all those other apps. And it’s doing a great job. Thanks very much to the Workflowy team for a great app!

Laowai Chinese, Jan 26, 2021

Less really is more! My digital whiteboard

In all my years with Apple this is my first review. I'm a productivity and GTD guy and I've tried a lot of tools. I usually end up back at Evernote trying to force "the Secret Weapon", because tasks become projects and you usually need more than a task manager, which Evernote is not. Don't get me wrong, couldn't live without EN. I almost dismissed WF out of the gate due to the old school look and feel, but the simplicity is really what you need. You can draft agenda's, story's, keep team notes, personnel notes, account notes, task or projects lists, any list. You can infinity expand and and use tags. The clincher for me was that you can share or just copy/paste to word and the bullet points transfer perfectly. So your not trapped in the app. I use it from the web on my work laptop and on my iPad and iPhone via the app. Michael Hyatt has it right, everything seems to start on WF now for me.

Mike Gutz, Mar 18, 2016

Good idea in wrong hands

This app has been dormant for many years. People, including me, stuck with the app so that someday it will be up to the expectations. The blog posts, zen desk page has many requests unanswered and ignored. I will only talk about the mobile app below. This is NOT a native iOS app so the user experience is not good. It’s hard to navigate, go in edit mode etc. You might as well just open this in Safari and you should be good, except if you care offline support If you are a pro member then you are not getting money’s worth. For the same price or less you will get some great notetaking and todo apps. Themes on desktop are not available on mobile. Unfortunately Workflowy like outlining is not available anywhere except a few clones that don’t do a good job. It took them few years just to add the ability to change Fonts, and then few months to introduce swipe completion/deletion. The website on Safari may load faster than the app itself. As you would find in most native apps, there are widgets and 3-D touch support. This app don’t. The whole theme of Workflowy is using the tags. There is not auto suggestion on tags as you would find it on desktop. It makes really hard to add a tag and be consistent. There is no share feature but I don’t use it. They are planning to add it. Overall this app is good for quickly looking up something on the go.

Punter2015, Oct 12, 2018

Simple, flexible, powerful.

I’m an organizational development consultant who teaches time management to managers and executives at Fortune 500 and large private companies. I regularly test personal productivity tools so I can make recommendations to clients; if you are an individual contributor, or a specialist who does not delegate tasks frequently, I heartily recommend you try this app. In fact, after many years as a power user of OmniFocus, I have switched to WorkFlowy as my task management app.I’m doing so because WorkFlowy is built around a simple outliner and #tags. You can get up and running in 5 minutes, be a power user within 24 hours — and (if that’s your thing), be running your fully configured, personalized GTD “implementation” a day or two later.

Stephen_Francis, May 10, 2019

Description

Workflowy is a clean and distraction-free app that helps you quickly capture notes, plan your to-do's, and get organized. Simple to use, but incredibly powerful, Workflowy can help you manage all the information in your life. With Workflowy you can: • Capture notes and ideas in an instant • #Tag and @assign items for easy access • Mark to-do tasks with one-swipe completion • Upload photos and files from your device • Organize complex ideas with infinite nesting • Manage your activities using kanban boards • Share notes and collaborate in real-time • Filter your entire Workflowy in seconds • Embed YouTube videos and tweets Workflowy automatically syncs across all your devices and auto-saves all your data.

No more missing notes or lost files! Workflowy is used by: • Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, a company worth over $10 billion • Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times technology columnist • Slack's founders • Nick Bilton, New York Times Bestseller and author of 'Hatching Twitter' • Ian Coldwater, Open Source Security Foundation board member • Thousands of entrepreneurs, writers, engineers, scientists, creatives and students across the globe Feature highlights: • Infinitely nested lists • Works offline • Automatically syncs with desktop and web versions • Simple document sharing and permissions • One swipe item completion • Kanban boards • Global text search • Expand and collapse lists • Tap and drag to move items around • Highlight text, color tags • Tag and assign items • Mobile keyboard shortcuts • Mirrors (Live copy) • MFA (Multi-factor authentication) • Item starring • Date tags • YouTube and tweet embeds • Auto-backup to Dropbox

WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline

WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline

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User Reviews for WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline

It's what it needs to be

Perfect For Non-Linear Thinkers

The good the bad and the ugly

My Most Used App

Essential functionality/tool, crappy app

An Indispensable part of my workflow

Only app I pay subscription for

Less really is more! My digital whiteboard

Good idea in wrong hands

Simple, flexible, powerful.

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