jessep

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by jessep 15y ago
Hi, I'm one of the founders of WorkFlowy. Pumped to see this on HN, thanks for posting @lostbit! This is just the beginning of collaboration in WorkFlowy. It's a really big area of interest for us. We're using it to manage all our own work
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by jessep 15y ago
Hi there :) I'm one of the guys who made WorkFlowy. I assume you're referring to the claim at the beginning to the video that WorkFlowy mimics the way your brain naturally works? If so, I think you're taking that too literally. All we meant
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by jessep 16y ago
You can treat the notes like a simple document. I have lots of leaf nodes that are like big documents, once you get into them they're basically just like a big plain text doc. (I am co-founder of WorkFlowy)
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by jessep 16y ago
This is a sweet post. In an ideal world, work would be infused with joy rather than stress.
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by jessep 16y ago
Our users are saying that they use it for work and pretty much everything. Also, we allow easy exporting of your whole list, so you're not going to lose all your data.
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by jessep 16y ago
Hi Chris. We have simple export working now and we're working on regular, automated exports of your whole document.
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by jessep 16y ago
Oh, I guess I think of every item in WorkFlowy as a list. So I should have said, "certain number of items".
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by jessep 16y ago
Hrm, good point.
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by jessep 16y ago
As a business, I think we'll follow the lead of dropbox and evernote. Some variety of: 1) You get a lot for free. 2) If you need even more (or just love us) you can pay us (My hunch is we'll also have an easy to find "I need a lot of space
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by jessep 16y ago
Totally :) I think a simple progress bar getting people up to, say 1000 items might do it. Any other ideas?
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by jessep 16y ago
Yeah, everything's going to be text editable. The twitter #hashtag model is what we'll probably follow. So if you type, say, "!" it might pull up a date picker and then when you choose the date it'll insert it in the text like !2010-10-24 (
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by jessep 16y ago
Yeah, we've realized that our tagline sucks. We're going to change it to "Organize your brain." What do you think?
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by jessep 16y ago
Sounds like either super discreet (tiny) thumbnails that you can expand by clicking or a setting to determine embedding would be good.
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by jessep 16y ago
So, we decided on "Organize your brain." Simple but also seems to get the point across.
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by jessep 16y ago
Just to clarify, you wouldn't want to upload stuff to WorkFlowy, right? You'd basically just want to link to it from another location?
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by jessep 16y ago
:) Yeah, we've heard that feedback loud and clear. We're going to put up some more descriptive text as soon as traffic dies down. We don't want to mess something up while people are still signing up like crazy. We're getting amazing convers
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by jessep 16y ago
You're in FX 3.? It doesn't work in 3.5, but should work in 3.6 and higher.
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by jessep 16y ago
Hi Chris! Thanks so much for the support :) Search, linking and mobile are all high on our list of things to get done soon. Mobile is definitely the hardest problem so could take the longest, but we're definitely getting on it!
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by jessep 16y ago
Hi durga. Your last question is interesting, because in WorkFlowy there's not really a difference between a list and an item in a list, because both can have infinite items underneath them. It does seem to confuse people, though, so we're g
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by jessep 16y ago
Nice. Yeah, attachments & embeds are going to be cool. So, sounds like for you just linking to an image plus previewing it in the display will be enough? Sounds like you wouldn't want us to let you upload the image to our site, right?
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by jessep 16y ago
Dropbox.com is pretty much a blank page with a video in the middle and a massive signup button. At the bottom there are links to the blog and whatnot. Is that what you mean? We technically don't have a blog or any additional info yet, so we
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by jessep 16y ago
Yeah, that's a good idea. We messed around with that, but didn't quite get it right. People got too engrossed in that and never really got around to creating their own stuff. The jury is out on it, though. We're definitely not happy with ou
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by jessep 16y ago
One bit of data: seems like we've had a conversion rate approaching 50%, so we're definitely doing well.
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by jessep 16y ago
Nice, thanks for the positive feedback! I hope it continues to be helpful.
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by jessep 16y ago
We had embeddable media implemented but took it out because the UI wasn't right yet. We need to figure that out, but I think it is definitely important enough to work on.
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by jessep 16y ago
Thanks, thats really useful feedback. Nice to know the main thing that persuaded you. I wonder if we could capture that in images/text somehow too, for the people who keep saying they don't want to watch a video.
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by jessep 16y ago
We'll put this stuff online and put more descriptive text. Thanks for the feedback. Conversions are really good, btw, so something's working. Regarding your specific questions: 1) "Is it online only?" You can currently edit offline and when
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by jessep 16y ago
Yeah, lots of this is right on. Dates: need to do it. Taggin/Labeling and filtering is super key and one of the next big things we're going to work on. Regarding monetization, we're thinking that we're going to have a premium option above a
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by jessep 16y ago
Most people don't know what an outliner is, so that's why we decided not to use it. We're really approaching it as text editor designed for lists, even though that ends up being an outliner. For tech people, you're definitely right. For mos
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by jessep 16y ago
Mobile support is high on our list. Yeah, we think it'll be pretty powerful for project management once it has collaboration, tagging and search.

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