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No discussion of Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/ https://workflowy.com/)? It is, in my opinion, by far the best note-taking app I have used. You can search, r
by discardable_dan 5y ago
No discussion of Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/ https://workflowy.com/)? It is, in my opinion, by far the best note-taking app I have used. You can search, reorganize, and freely move content as you take it, and also after. You can nest a whole campaign of D&D notes next to your favorite recipes, and it feels natural due to their focus level model. More importantly, it's absolutely dead simple, and it "gets out of the way."
The author dances around the two main properties that all good note-taking methods have:
1. It's easy to add new notes
2. It's easy to look through old notes to find what you want
Pencil and paper, or bound journals, do the former very easily. The latter is much harder, unless you start some indexing system (such as a bullet journal solution). This suggests searching and tagging are ideal, which digital is good for. But, and I cannot stress this enough, (1) is more important than (2). It is not impossible to find information in hand-written notes, just harder. But the exact moment it becomes hard to take new notes, the solution fails because you won't use it. And I believe Workflowy does all of this, with quick nesting, easy extension, and even quick reorganization. And you can quickly drop into "just let me write some notes," then go back and organize later (even splitting your notes up into subcomponents, if you want).
- thesephist 5y agoOP here. There are a lot that I left out -- Workflowy of course, but also Notational Velocity and its cousins (nvAlt, nvUltra) are another favorite of mine. I guess I mostly mentioned the ones that were top of mind / in the zeitgeist in my work. But you can extrapolate this philosophy to other apps like Workflowy for sure.
- senectus1 5y agooh wow. workflowy is a amazing. I need to dump onenote for this i think
- cehrlich 5y agoAs a long-time paying Workflowy user, it’s great but it also has some persisting frustrating issues and I think it’s not for everyone. Two of the biggest issues: * no easy way to insert code snippets * because the desktop app is just a web view, it’s not possible to open more than one window. Which means that for some poweruser stuff you have to open multiple browser Windows of the web version.
- mackrevinack 5y agoi found workflowy a few years ago, within the space of a weekend i moved everything from onenote, todoist and some evernote stuff into workflowy. i liked it that much! im using dyanlist now which is similar enough, just more options, but i can't see myself moving away from outliners ever again
- VladimirGolovin 5y agoWorkflowy is fantastic for keeping project journals, which are my form of incremental note taking. It's great at "behaving like memory" and documenting "a story of how I arrived at the ideas". Currently, however, I'm drifting away from the journal format to a Zettelkasten, which I keep in Obsidian, a plain-text / markdown desktop app. I guess I could keep my Zettelkasten in Workflowy, but I rather like the dedicated desktop app approach for it.
- mackrevinack 5y ago> freely move content as you take it, and also after workflowy is great but dynalist has a leg up here with its 'move' feature. it allows you to write a note anywhere and then search for another note to move it to. its useful when I'm in a completely different context, like if I'm in my todo list section and i want to write down a idea in my programming section, i don't have to go to that location and then back