WorkFlowy Single Pane Outliner

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 2, 2012 at 08:58 PM

Workflowy is nice, but I personally found Checkvist much better both for task management and collaborating. I think Workflowy’s prominence has to do with it being heavily marketed to people unused to outlining as if it were something revolutionary.

I concur with our self-limitation but I don’t think it has to do with a specific type of program, more with our overwhelm with unneeded features. The fact that there’s an extra pane doesn’t mean that we have to use it. When I first tested UltraRecall it had no less than 5 panes open by default and I couldn’t even imagine what I would do with them; then I switched all but two (tree and notes) off and starting building my info around those; at the end I added the rest of the panes and more, docked and in tabs so that they didn’t get in the way, and the result is indeed useful.

I recently purchased Natara Bonsai for a specific use; I had tried it ages ago but found it too noisy. Then I followed Dr Andus’ excellent advice http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4193/0/natara-bonsai—still-a-top-notch-outliner and simplified its layout and things fell right into place.