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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 zumda »

I love the simplicity of the application! Easy to use and no complicated system to learn (which isn't the case for all the GTD apps out there...)

But there are two things I would love to see: Add an easy way to append things to the Goals list. So I could add parts of a project to my week list, and when I break it down into single tasks I could easily add the subtasks to the today list. They would have to be linked to the original item of course.

And what would also be nice (but may be outside the scope) is a way to ad recurring tasks (for example refactoring every Friday), so I don't have to remember to add it all the time to the today list.

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

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Post by thebooktocome »

jessep wrote: post #74
shasta wrote: post #4

Four testimonial quotes, a short fluffy video, and a sign up box? That's your launch website? You're kidding, right? Is it online only? Is it free? Forever or for a trial? ...

We'll put this stuff online and put more descriptive text. Thanks for the feedback. Conversions are really good, btw, so something's working. Regarding your specific questions: 1) "Is it online only?" You can currently edit offline and when you go back online it'll sync your changes. Don't close your browser window, though, cause it'll lose the changes. That'll be fixed soon thanks to html 5 caching. 2 & 3) "Is it fr…

"free forever up to a certain number of lists allowed"

Er, I love your product and use it, but how does that model even make sense? Couldn't I get around it by having everything in a single root list?

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

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Post by palish »

jessep wrote: post #148
chrisgoodrich wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd agree that a URL link is good for now, but I'd vote against any inline embedding. I think this will complicate your UI. I think the link should browse to a new page in workflowy that is sub to the item to which it is attached and embed the image or video there.

Sounds like either super discreet (tiny) thumbnails that you can expand by clicking or a setting to determine embedding would be good.

That would be awesome!

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

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Post by mrbogle »

This is awesome. I have something similar as a project on the back burner because I haven't been able to find anything really simple and generic like this. I was trying to solve simple creation of lists and the zoom in feature is exactly what I was looking for. Nice work.

Now for a tiny feature request. I like to make sections with ample white space between them. When I have an empty bullet, can you hide the bullet? Similar to what gmail tasks does.

And I want simple formatting. Textile? Markdown? Is this supported already? I just want to make junk bold and italicized. :)

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

naner wrote: post #79
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 don't mean to be cynical but honestly to me this space is an analog to self-help books. Todo/notes/productivity apps probably can hook people for a few weeks but beyond that I imagine most people won't put forth the effort to keep up with it.

Point taken, but a big aim of ours (I'm one of the founders) is to help people do what they're already doing in a better way. I was creating tons of Google Docs full of lists before I started using WorkFlowy. They were pretty unmanageable, but they were the best thing I had at the time.

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

hartror wrote: post #127

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…

Cool, glad you like it. We're definitely adding search and tagging in the near future. We want tagging to be a first order tool for navigation just as descending the hierarchy is now.
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