I hope it isn’t considered a waste of valuable forum space to say this, but I wanted to extend my congratulations and thanks to the team for the increasing sophistication and usefulness of the app while maintaining its simplicity. The chief competition for me has been Notion. The two things that decided the case for me were the ability to write in “paragraph” mode (“notes” on items never really did the trick for me) and the implementation of boards. It is SO easy to set up a board to track a project, and to change it back and forth to other formats, that I’m now relying on Workflowy almost exclusively for all my organization and prewriting tasks. The one app it hasn’t replaced yet is ToDoist, because I haven’t been able to figure out how to structure the nested to-dos AND have recurring tasks that reset the due date to a certain number of days or weeks later when marked complete.
About simplicity, I love the ability to switch off the new stuff, keeping the app as simple as I want it to be, by switching on only the features I really need. This is classy, and a killer for me!
Couldn’t agree more. Each update has been carefully considered before release to make sure it’s truly useful without adding complexity. For recurring tasks I have a single list of recurring tasks in my PARA system with an entry such as Weekly Water the chilli plant every Sunday Sun, Sep 20 (where Sun, Sep 20 is a date). It then shows up in my found dates and, rather than completing it I move the date forward. For projects I mirror either the whole project, or the next action to today (just key /mitt and hit Enter) Having come from every app and system under the sun I have found my home with Workflowy.
I’ll have to explore some of those options. I’ve encountered them in announcements and such but haven’t felt brave enough to try any of them. It took me till last month to start using boards.