![]() ![]() Or if you’re on Mac OS, the same price can net you the most popular and feature rich outliner of them all – OmniOutliner. The Workflowy Pro cost of $49 per year could provide much more features (including web-clippings, and multi-media, images and checklists with reminders) in Evernote – most of which come free anyway. I know a lot of techy gurus really like the minimalist approach of Workflowy for list making.īut many writers I know can brainstorm outlines very quickly, and the freenium limitations of only 500 per month could feasibly halt any full-on brainstorming outlining session. Link: Workflowy Is it Helpful for Writers? Export (forced to all) in formatted, plain text or OPML – from the export screen you must copy and paste manually.Powerful search with additional operators, and tagging with # and Markdown support.Zoom in to main lists – opens on a new page.Collapsable branches of lists supporting deep levels or hierarchy.iOS apps – these work offline also, and synchronise when back online.Google chrome app for offline desktop access.Premium Workflowy Pro users ($49 p.a.) get themes, different fonts, more storage and lists, Dropbox backup and some collaboration features. ![]() (You can get 250 more if you recommend the app to friends). Free webapp service, with list limitations of 500 list items per month.For the sake of this post, I’ve also setup my own Workflowy to show you a typical use for it, showing lists for my writing, home, school and sport aspects.Įach item in a list in Workflowy can be “completed” off, and tagged with # or symbols to make filtering and search powerfully successful. You can outline to a certain extent (see my final review notes below). Never-the-less, for a free webapp service with off-line capabilities, Workflowy may well be extremely useful for some writers. But that also makes it very quick to add more and more items. Starred lists will appear as boxed items at the bottom or the webpage when shown.īeing a visual-orientated person I also prefer brainstorming in a more visual way – like, say, with mindmaps or free-form text and multi-media apps like Scapple, or MagicalPadHD. Although there is now a method for saving the important lists by starring them. You can “zoom in”, as they call it, to view only one of those lists on a page, but that home page list – in my opinion – can look very large and unwieldy.īeing a project-orientated person I miss having defined projects on a front page, I miss the separation. With a later UI change, Workflowy changed to holding all lists within a master list, and an even more minimalist look (which many people love). The app used to provide multiple lists – you could create multiple target projects and go into them from a front screen, then add multiple layers of lists as outlines within. Workflowy lost me as a fan (and lost me some important lists) when it changed front-end format. And also, with a good iPhone and iPad app which looks pretty much identical to the browser webapp. ![]() It began to get popular when an offline app came out – built on top of Google Chrome. Some fans even suggest it as an alternative to note-takers like Evernote.įormat-wise, Workflowy began as a webapp – a simple little multi-level list-maker. Workflowy markets itself as an “organisation” list-making app nowadays. If you don’t get on with the Workflowy format, in Week 34 I’ll be profiling some alternatives. Workflowy – or any outliner – is a bit like vegemite in that respect – you either love it or hate it, there appears no middle-ground. Some other reviewers have loved it, others hated it. For week 33 of the #52Tech series, Workflowy is highlighted.įirstoff – I’m not a huge fan of Workflowy anymore. ![]()
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