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If Workflowy does exactly and everything you want, then sure, use that. If there are times though when you wish it did something a little different or a little
by jbotz 6y ago
If Workflowy does exactly and everything you want, then sure, use that. If there are times though when you wish it did something a little different or a little more or integrated better with some other tools you use then, well, with emacs and org mode you could scratch that itch with probably just a few dozen lines of elisp code.
Or if you later find some other tool that suits you better it may not be possible to move all your data to the other system, or at least prohibitively hard. With org mode, you can probably whip up an extension that mimics that other tool, or else just port you data.
The attraction of org mode is that it it's probably close to the simplest, most primitive way of solving that problem it solves, while also being one of the most easily extensible and customizable (because, emacs).
- spekcular 6y agoBut, Workflowly literally does exactly and everything I want. It exports plain text, so my data is always portable. It's great. I don't want primitive, I want convenient and easy to use. I don't want to have to think about how I'm taking notes or write in lisp or "rice" anything. Also, Emacs is ugly and doesn't sync with my phone. I'm sure I could fix both of those things with sufficient effort, but again, I want to put forth effort solving actual problems, not remaking my Workflowy setup. This entire topic is microcosm of goofy command line/unix fetishism. If you want primitive, get a paper notebook. One page per day. That works well, too (seriously).