Workflowy reminds me of google tasks. Simple tasks easily indented.
Right. The advantage of Google tasks over Workflowy in my opinion, is that Google tasks works on mobile devices.
Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
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Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh, this question gets posted every time something from my blog appears on HN. It's a live-chat tool for websites that I'm testing for a friend and his startup. Honestly it's proving pretty useless with the kind of traffic I'm getting (high churn), but on websites with videos or long posts it's pretty awesome.
Well it crashed my browser (Chrome 6 on W7) and caused me to not read your post, might want to rethink it as it ruins any attempt at using your site.
same here. crashed chrome on w7 (an extra data point)
Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#23I just noticed workflowy has an export tool at the bottom of the page. Pretty slick.
Yep, that's nice. I'd also like to be able to import from gTasks.
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#24I switched my homepage to Workflowy when I saw it first here on HN and it has been a great boost to my productivity since. Maybe nothing specific to Workflowy itself, but just the fact of having a todo list as homepage.
that is such a good idea. Just made my list as my homepage. Let's see how it works out for me. I use W7 Sticky Notes which comes very handy for boosting productivity too.
Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#25I have been using Workflowy for about 2 weeks now and have a 2 week history of things I have done, didn't get completed and meeting notes. I love that I can keep all of this in one place without worrying too much about formatting.
I like the look of it (and the intuitive way it functions) - but (even though my fear maybe irrational) I'm slightly worried about becoming dependent on a tool that might not be around in the future.
EDIT: actually, with an export function - there's not so much to lose.
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#26I am absolutely loving this site. I am not normally a list person but I am going to try. If they ever add collaboration then I will be all over this.
Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#27I keep trying new tools when they come out, but find myself always snapping back to Notational Velocity.
Workflowy reminds me of OmniOutliner, they share a very similar, hierarchical approach. Sadly they also share similar problems; a GUI that's too slow for my fingers and too complex for my little brain.
The GUI-complexity stems from the enforced hierarchy. Indenting stuff seems nice at first, and makes it look tidy. But after a while I'd find myself constantly futzing with the indentation in the futile attempt to structure what doesn't want to be structured.
And finally workflowy has the added drawback of living inside the browser - which is not nearly as close to my fingertips as a native app.
For me NV is ultimately the better approach. I can not praise it highly enough. Think: "full-text search for your brain". Try it out if you haven't yet.
Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#28I was in the same boat with regards to TODOs, and I asked myself, given how well steeped we are in technology nowadays - surely this is a solved problem? Turns out, it is. emacs' org-mode does pretty much the exact same thing WorkFlowy does, only it's tied into all the other niceties of emacs (and to admit that is saying something, I was a vim user). Plus, thanks to Dropbox, and MobileOrg for iPhones and Android, you…
I like the idea of this, but there's not an Android version of MobileOrg at the moment - so I'll hold off trying it for a while.
Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
#29I've been working on a similar project, but I've been moving away from the tree structure lately because I found it too rigid. I don't think all my ideas fit into a tree.
It's a top-down approach. The question is, can your ideas be subdivided into small(er) tasks?
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#30What's embedded on this guy's blog? It's using a massive % of cpu.
Heh, this question gets posted every time something from my blog appears on HN. It's a live-chat tool for websites that I'm testing for a friend and his startup. Honestly it's proving pretty useless with the kind of traffic I'm getting (high churn), but on websites with videos or long posts it's pretty awesome.
same on chromium/ubuntu
somethings gotta be wrong with that plugin