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WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by crocowhile »

middlegeek wrote: post #20
wheels wrote: post #10

Annoyance from the homepage: I don't want to have to watch a video to figure out what you do. Watching a video for me is one step of engagement after I've figured out if I have some basic interest. If I can't establish that immediately, I'll just close the window. Videos can be great for more in depth info, but why not use the space taken up by "A better way to think" (which says nothing) to give a one-line descripti…

I would respectfully say just the opposite. In a 45 second video, they showed the product, I saw someone using it who already knew how to use it and I had no more commitment than clicking "play". In my book, they got it exactly right.

Having a video is a good option but shouldn't be the only one. See how dropbox is doing it.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by kubaf »

andrewcamel wrote: post #43

I really like the app and I'm definitely going to be using it for many things from this point on, but I would use it even more if you had Collaboration. I need to be able to collaboratively edit a section of my list with my coding team. We should be able to move this section of the list where ever each of us wants it in our individual accounts. Would that be too difficult to implement at this point?

agree. colaboration feature is a must. for me it could easily replace piratepad if it have implemented colaboration.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by jessep »

joeljkp wrote: post #22
wheels wrote: post #10

Annoyance from the homepage: I don't want to have to watch a video to figure out what you do. Watching a video for me is one step of engagement after I've figured out if I have some basic interest. If I can't establish that immediately, I'll just close the window. Videos can be great for more in depth info, but why not use the space taken up by "A better way to think" (which says nothing) to give a one-line descripti…

Agreed. I didn't get passed the homepage. 1. Why not have an anonymous demo page to play around with before asking us to sign up? 2. Why not have a big "Log in with OpenID" button so people can just link in with Google/whatever?

We'll set up Facebook Connect for those that don't want to register directly. Reason we don't have anonymous demo page yet is that it would take significant work to get the data to port to your actual account if you choose to sign up. It'd be a bad thing for someone to spend 10 minutes entering data into the demo and then lose it on signing up. We actually had that before and it was a problem.

We want to do this, but for purposes of launching more quickly we haven't done it yet.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by d4nt »

middlegeek wrote: post #20
wheels wrote: post #10

Annoyance from the homepage: I don't want to have to watch a video to figure out what you do. Watching a video for me is one step of engagement after I've figured out if I have some basic interest. If I can't establish that immediately, I'll just close the window. Videos can be great for more in depth info, but why not use the space taken up by "A better way to think" (which says nothing) to give a one-line descripti…

I would respectfully say just the opposite. In a 45 second video, they showed the product, I saw someone using it who already knew how to use it and I had no more commitment than clicking "play". In my book, they got it exactly right.

I rarely watch videos like this; if I'm in a shared office environment I don't want to distract others around me. If I'm at home I'm probably browsing while my family watch TV so again, the noise of the video will be distracting. Without anything on the page to make me think it's worth reaching for the headphones, I'll move on.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by jessep »

detst wrote: post #42
middlegeek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would respectfully say just the opposite. In a 45 second video, they showed the product, I saw someone using it who already knew how to use it and I had no more commitment than clicking "play". In my book, they got it exactly right.

A video is great but many people aren't going to bother with it if they aren't otherwise interested. "A Better Way to Think" means nothing to me and is the only other thing to grab my interest. I would have clicked away in about 2 seconds if I didn't come across this on HN. EDIT: Why not something like "Your Brain. Organized. Everywhere." for a headline? It doesn't seem to be "a better way to think" but a way to "org…

Oh, I like these suggestions. Yeah, tagline should change. Perhaps we'll use "Organize things the way you naturally think". Need to put more thought into this.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by jessep »

ptn wrote: post #48
middlegeek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would respectfully say just the opposite. In a 45 second video, they showed the product, I saw someone using it who already knew how to use it and I had no more commitment than clicking "play". In my book, they got it exactly right.

I live in a country with one of the slowest Internet connections out there, I'd really rather read a 2-line paragraph description than watch a 45-sec video. Besides, YouTube is blocked in most offices - like mine.

Point most definitely taken. We're going to put up a few descriptive paragraphs.

Re: WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

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Post by jessep »

jackowayed wrote: post #13

From the "How to Use WorkFlowy" box that you see after signing up: > Type like you would in a text editor. What percent of the population is comfortable with the term "text editor"?

Maybe we should use: "Type like you would in a word processor."
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