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Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by mitjak »

frio wrote: post #9

I 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…

Coupled with vim or emacs, the iPhone, PlainText.app is nice, simple way to read and edit files on the go.

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by smokinn »

sandipagr wrote: post #22
citricsquid wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Definitely reproducible. Chrome on w7 crashed for me as well.

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by pavs »

moe wrote: post #27

I 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…

I have used Notational Velocity, I like it, but I absolutely love Taskpaper. I have used almost every single task-manager you could possible think of, but taskpaper for mac is the only one I found to be no-nonsense and intuitive.

Mac only. if you haven't tried it yet, you should try it. You will love it. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by astrofinch »

moe wrote: post #27

I 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…

When I switched to Linux, I found that Zim

http://zim-wiki.org/

came close enough to Notational Velocity for my purposes. The key feature both share is giving me the ability to very quickly jump to a note by typing its name in. (With Zim you do this by typing cntrl-j.) I'm reluctant to try any note manager that doesn't have that feature.

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by evlapix »

bigbang wrote: post #11

I 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.

I made a simple HTML page with a large font that said "You're working on XYZ" and set it to be my home page. Embarrassingly, I was very productive that week.

Even though I didn't keep up with updating the HTML to represent what I was working on, I became much more aware of my actions and their relations to my responsibilities since then.

I found it to be a valuable lesson.

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by theDoug »

citricsquid wrote: post #8
Swizec wrote: post #7

Earlier 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.

No worries now, the traffic shut his site down.

Re: Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

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Post by quanticle »

I guess I don't understand the analogy in the title. How is workflowy any more "distributed" than a to-do list? I mean, instead of carrying around my notebook of ideas and to-dos, I put it all on workflowy. It seems like I've traded one centralized system for another.

That's not to say that workflowy doesn't have advantages over a notebook, but the svn/git analogy is flawed in my opinion. Maybe if they'd compared other task management systems to cvs and workflowy to svn the version-control-system analogy would have fit better.

EDIT: Grammar.

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