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Workflowy is what I have been using for almost a decade. I think the reason it works so well is because it is simple. Anti features are so powerful in an app li

Workflowy is what I have been using for almost a decade. I think the reason it works so well is because it is simple. Anti features are so powerful in an app like this otherwise you can spend all your time tweaking and coming up with the perfect system.

nmca 4y ago
Also my go-to. Very useful for travel, projects etc. Recursive lists fit my brain well & the search is good enough!
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
  It also feels like a niche, esoteric app nowadays, so when the hordes go to notion, we can stay over here.
mandmandam 4y ago
I liked Workflowy a lot, but the idea of paying $60 a year for drop down lists inspires a deep, deep revulsion. I wouldn't even pay that for the full app to own for life.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
  It's $49 annually. If you use it for everything, it is totally worth it.
  - mandmandam 4y ago
    It's little triangles that fold your list. I know how handy it is. But I think about the simplicity of it, and it offends me to pay so much for the ability to do something which I feel ought to be a standard thing. $49 is nothing to most here. It's doable for me. But there are countries - many - where that's a month's median wage. $49 for a blockbuster game - sure. It's optional, there were hundreds of thousands of hours of work put into it, etc. Little foldy triangles costing the same, and you don't even own the software? Nah.
    - ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
      I get what you are saying, but they have a team too and are working on the software fulltime.
pbowyer 4y ago
Have they added any way to have multiple root nodes? After using Workflowy for a decade on and off my tree is cluttered with notes and I want to start afresh but not lose them all. Keeping 1500+ nodes hanging around also slows the app down.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
  They have multiple root nodes with parent_id null. I usually prune my tree every few years. But 1500 nodes should be pretty OK.

nmca 4y ago

Also my go-to. Very useful for travel, projects etc. Recursive lists fit my brain well & the search is good enough!

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
It also feels like a niche, esoteric app nowadays, so when the hordes go to notion, we can stay over here.

mandmandam 4y ago

I liked Workflowy a lot, but the idea of paying $60 a year for drop down lists inspires a deep, deep revulsion. I wouldn't even pay that for the full app to own for life.

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
It's $49 annually. If you use it for everything, it is totally worth it.
- mandmandam 4y ago
  It's little triangles that fold your list. I know how handy it is. But I think about the simplicity of it, and it offends me to pay so much for the ability to do something which I feel ought to be a standard thing. $49 is nothing to most here. It's doable for me. But there are countries - many - where that's a month's median wage. $49 for a blockbuster game - sure. It's optional, there were hundreds of thousands of hours of work put into it, etc. Little foldy triangles costing the same, and you don't even own the software? Nah.
  - ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
    I get what you are saying, but they have a team too and are working on the software fulltime.

pbowyer 4y ago

Have they added any way to have multiple root nodes? After using Workflowy for a decade on and off my tree is cluttered with notes and I want to start afresh but not lose them all. Keeping 1500+ nodes hanging around also slows the app down.

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
They have multiple root nodes with parent_id null. I usually prune my tree every few years. But 1500 nodes should be pretty OK.