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workflowy is the best list and mostly underappreciated app.
workflowy.com is a great product. I wish there'd be more development on it though. It seems to me the product has become stale and the devs just sit back and collect revenue.
A little more on subject, and I am totally failing to find a good todo list app. I am not sure what I really want but something like - can extract todos from my code - can be very very context aware (location, time, am I in code base or out on street or on a phone call?) To be fair that last one is the list problem - it's an Embodiment of intelligence - a list is a marker for a agent, that jogs my memory at one point…
We encountered this “orthagonality” in the early days of SFDevLabs while trying to build a list-based site for navigating the Internet. Our approach to list creation was bookmarking, yet the more we build for the individual, the more we built a siloed product and strayed away from the potential of network effects, which was objective in the first place! (whoops) I’m still fairly-well convinced that list-based sites a…
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/pearltrees-brings-new-editi...
GitHub turned out to be a pretty decent place for collaborating on various lists. I mean, the list of awesome lists[0] is currently the 23rd most starred GitHub project. I'm using GitHub both as a collaborative tool for creating lists and as my own tool for creating lists (as an example, a list of books I have read / am reading / planning on reading [1]). [0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [1] https://github…
Excel is also the Mother of all list-making apps. From Spolsky (May 2000): > When we were designing Excel 5.0, the first major release to use serious activity-based planning, we only had to watch about five customers using the product before we realized that an enormous number of people just use Excel to keep lists. They are not entering any formulas or doing any calculation at all! We hadn't even considered this bef…
I run a bookmarking site, which is an ecological niche in the world of lists. The pattern I've seen over the years is that a bookmarking site will arise, based on some fairly specific idea of what managing bookmarks should look like. As it catches on, the owners will discover that people have distinct and curious ways they like to manage their bookmarks. In an effort to grow the site, they will add features that try…
Just think of possibility if you were starting with the Yahoo! Directory, making it mobile friendly, location aware, and providing users the ability to favorite, specific entry, add to the directory, comment on entries and directories.
Majority of businesses today have online presence. Starting from scratch is difficult. Getting users to build a list from scratch is difficult. Offer them a pre-built list/entries based on location and let them refine it.
But then think about the lists which are a single person's hardwork or maybe a group of people being paid to do so. A list need not necessarily be objective and can also provide the curator's views. This can be good or bad dependent on breadth of the curators knowledge. Lists(like really well written articles) are often the result of extensive data analysis which is why lists like those provided by WSJ and WGSN[3] are paid/exclusive services.
[1]:https://github.com/wasabeef/awesome-android-ui [2]:https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios [3]:http://www.wgsn.com/en/
I can start a list on the phone while I'm out and about and continue when I get to a desktop machine. Nice way to organize different contexts/subjects.