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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 miketuritzin »

ABrandt wrote: post #63
k7d wrote: post #53

So here's something very similar i launched recently http://www.knowcase.com (works on ipad & mobile too)

Interesting side note: I watched the workflowy video in the article, thought "meh". Then I came back to HN to read the comments, and clicked on your app. Tried the demo, got intimidated by the interface and left. Came back to HN to read more comments, decided to check out workflowy's site afterall. A simple sign up, validation from Matt Cutts, and the fact that its a YC company persuaded me to give it a try. tl;dr -…

Interesting. As one of the founders, it's good to hear the psychology at work here.

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

MrNibbles wrote: post #131

Well, i love it. Its a great way to organise my endless daily mind jottings. I have made it into a quick little desktop (fluid) app with some minor css changes to help it blend in a bit Heres a screenshot: http://www.webnibbles.co.uk/dropbox/workFlowyFluid.jpg If you are interested in running this standalone (OS-X) you can get the app here: http://www.webnibbles.co.uk/dropbox/WorkFlowy.app.zip Or you can get fluid fr…

Awesome, man! We'll have to get on that ourselves.

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

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Post by naner »

miketuritzin wrote: post #179
naner wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I hope you guys do well, it just seems like a risky area to get into.

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

kubaf wrote: post #54
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.

Sweet. Collaboration is coming soon.

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

zyfo wrote: post #167

Very smooth experience. Love the "What if your whole life could fit on a piece of paper?" tagline. Great job! Key points for keeping it relevant: - Mobile - Offline access - Export/print Small nitpick: Deleting an empty item shouldn't bring up the undo delete bar.

Thanks! All of this stuff is coming in some form in the near future.

As a side-note, there is "unofficial" offline access right now. All of your edits are batched up when you edit offline and will be synced with the server when you reconnect. You just can't close your browser window/tab until you reconnect.

The undelete bar thing is already fixed and will be pushed out soon.

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

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Post by miketuritzin »

djtumolo wrote: post #170

arrrrgh. i just back buttoned to the article, and went forward to try and find my list again, and its gone. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do today.

Hmmm, that's odd. Your changes are synced to the server every 5 seconds, and you should be notified if you have unsaved changes when you try to leave the page.

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

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Post by chime »

greendestiny wrote: post #89

I've been using http://bulletxt.zetabee.com it appears to be the same thing, but many times nicer and more polished.

Thanks for the props. It's nowhere close to being finished either. I still have tons of half-implemented features.

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

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Post by jessep »

thebooktocome wrote: post #172
jessep wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Oh, I guess I think of every item in WorkFlowy as a list. So I should have said, "certain number of items".

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

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Post by lostbit »

Exporting would be nice so that one can save the list 'snapshot'. This way we could use it to report our tasks/projects every week. My boss is using Word. It's just not efficient...

Tables are very common on my lists. Maybe you can add support for simple tables to Workflowy too.

Another suggestion: several users accessing the same Workflowy.

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

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Post by terrym »

jessep wrote: post #149
terrym wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No problem, glad it was helpful! The best thing for people who don't want to watch a video might be just some screenshots of the different states of the list: compacted, expanded 1-2 levels, and fully expanded with accompanying text explaining how the product works. Another quick suggestion: "A better way to think" doesn't really convey what your product does, maybe something like: "Map your workflow to your brain, n…

Yeah, we've realized that our tagline sucks. We're going to change it to "Organize your brain." What do you think?

That works. I think the key is having a solid introductory paragraph that explains what the product is, the tagline can only say so much.
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