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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 haploid »

jessep wrote: post #55
joeljkp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why would anyone using a demo page be under the illusion that they would be able to save their data? To wit: It's a demo page.

I agree with the above sentiment that not offering a means of trying the product out before registering is a blocker for many, many people( myself included ).

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

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Post by chrisgoodrich »

Maro wrote: post #19

Is this a good space to compete in? There are zillions of sites like it, it's really easy to duplicate, and hard to make money off of? Nevertheless, best of luck to you.

I used to pay $10/month for Backpack by 37s. I'd gladly pay that $10 for this.

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

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Post by chrisgoodrich »

palish wrote: post #94

Very nice! I really want to attach screenshots to items. I'm going to use Workflowy while programming... whenever I notice a small tsak (such as refactoring a hack, reformatting some code, etc), then I'll add it as a Workflowy item. But rather than type out an item description, it would be way easier for me to simply screenshot the code. (I do alt-printscreen, paste into MSPaint, save to dropbox, copy public link.) O…

I'd +1 this feature request. Although, I would rather not see these show up in-line but instead be a link for download.

Or possibly better yet, let me browse and attach things from DropBox.

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

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Post by chrisgoodrich »

jessep wrote: post #70
eof wrote: post #38

Tasks need to have dates I think for this thing to be both a brain organizer and a productivity tool, which I think is ultimately what it is going to have to be to be successful (and it is names workflowy). I have used mindmaps before, which is basically the same idea with a different interface. I'd like each node to have a "due by" or "do on" date, and maybe a simple color coding.. just a way to arbitrary label thin…

Yeah, lots of this is right on. Dates: need to do it. Taggin/Labeling and filtering is super key and one of the next big things we're going to work on. Regarding monetization, we're thinking that we're going to have a premium option above a certain number of lists/items. We're, of course, going to grandfather in early users.

I hope that you don't sacrifice the simplicity here. Instead of actual fields or clickable options for setting tags and due dates, let me type them in and then display them as needed.

something like: look into alternatives for GTD due 12/1/2010 [work, gtd]

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

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Post by moshezadka »

Two notes I did not see below:

* For a site that launched a few days after FireSheep was announced, and that wants me to put in (somewhat) private data, I think that at least having an SSL option is necessary.

* Re: demo page: Is it really that hard to save it tied to a temporary cookie, and copy all the data on the backend to a permanent account if a user signs up? I would not even call that a "demo page": just have the editor widget be right there on the front page, letting the user play with it (keeping the video to the side).

I understand the value of launching quickly, but adding a Gmail auth/Facebook connect option, adding an SSL option and adding better "try-before-I-have-to-give-you-my-email-address" are all things I would consider a must.

[Edit: fixed formatting.]

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

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Post by eof »

chrisgoodrich wrote: post #106
jessep wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, lots of this is right on. Dates: need to do it. Taggin/Labeling and filtering is super key and one of the next big things we're going to work on. Regarding monetization, we're thinking that we're going to have a premium option above a certain number of lists/items. We're, of course, going to grandfather in early users.

I hope that you don't sacrifice the simplicity here. Instead of actual fields or clickable options for setting tags and due dates, let me type them in and then display them as needed. something like: look into alternatives for GTD due 12/1/2010 [work, gtd]

Taking syntax like that is definitely cool. I was thinking though of just being able to hover a node and get teensy widgets

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

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Post by binomial »

jessep wrote: post #59
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."

How about "Just type in anything you want"
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