WorkFlowy Single Pane Outliner

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 3, 2012 at 01:19 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I find it very humorous that the developer claims that WorkFlowy is the first
>“organizational tool that lets you organize things the way you naturally think by
>breaking everything down into smaller pieces…” This is such an outlandish and
>demonstrably false lie that I wonder if the developer was ever a politician.

This is a classical mistake of cybernetics, whereby people who developed the computer thought they were modelling human thought, when in fact they have instrumentalised a very unnatural way of thinking, which in turn has been used as a model for human thought. I would like to see that person who thinks in a hierarchical folder structure and saves individual thoughts into separately labelled compartments in his or her brain, ready to be retrieved by global searches…