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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 jessep »

chrisgoodrich wrote: post #75

Woah. I get a very 37signals-esque feel from this. You know, the feeling when you've found something really awesome that could really help out your daily organization? I used to use backpack from 37signals, but ended up favoring my Moleskine. I signed-up for WorkFlowy and created 5 lists and I think I could use this on a daily basis. Simple and to the point. Help me remember the random things that go through my head…

Hi Chris! Thanks so much for the support :)

Search, linking and mobile are all high on our list of things to get done soon. Mobile is definitely the hardest problem so could take the longest, but we're definitely getting on it!

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

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Post by jessep »

glenw wrote: post #87

Their website probably got a lot hits from the curious today, since it was a hacker news front page story. I wonder how many potential users, like me, that they lost forever because because of the register-before-we-explain anti-pattern. And no, I will not unblock a video until after I am interested.

:) Yeah, we've heard that feedback loud and clear. We're going to put up some more descriptive text as soon as traffic dies down. We don't want to mess something up while people are still signing up like crazy.

We're getting amazing conversion rates, though, so most people don't have a problem watching the video.

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

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Post by jessep »

chrisgoodrich wrote: post #105
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.

Just to clarify, you wouldn't want to upload stuff to WorkFlowy, right? You'd basically just want to link to it from another location?

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

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Post by citizenkeys »

There's an ongoing argument about the viability of my WikiTorrents.org idea over here: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1871068

This WorkFlowy thing is basically an incredibly general version of my WikiTorrents.org idea and it's also YC-funded.

The TechCrunch article quotes the founders: "Almost everything you create on Google docs is a list."

So there.

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

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Post by hartror »

This looks fantastic, with some obvious advantages over other todo list apps.

A couple of obvious todos I would like to see done before I can use it. Firstly a search throwing up a list of notes that match (browser text search is okay for this but doesn't give me a nice easy to read list).

Secondly and this one is more important, the ability to cross reference lists, for example what do I need to do today for all my projects? Search could provide a stopgap using hash tags ala twitter for tagging notes or marking dates in the interim but a formal method would probably be more convenient especially for mainstream users.

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

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Post by guelo »

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.

If you live in such a country do you expect free internet services to target you? At my startup a country with horrible internet is a country I do not care about, sorry but there's just too many other people to target and other things to worry about. The sense of entitlement to free services also bugs me.
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