Your top 3 tools?

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 22, 2013 at 09:46 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>Okay, I’m gonna take a look at Checkvist to see what I’m missing :)

I did check out Checkvist, and while it is definitely more mature and more feature-rich than WorkFlowy, I still prefer the latter. And not only do I prefer it: I got properly hooked on it. My search for a task manager has ended and I stopped using my other to-do apps (Reminders on iOS, MLO on the PC, and Project Outline in ConnectedText) altogether.

Pros: one-click hoisting; iOS clients that sync automatically; text-only interface; breadcrumb-trail; speed of use and operation; everything can be part of one overall list, which can be navigated like a single desktop-wiki project. The list adapts to the size of the browser (word wrap).

Cons: it still lacks a lot of features that people might expect (check-boxes, calendar, ability to attach files, highlighting in different colours etc.), but strangely I don’t miss any of them.

A neat trick for ConnectedText users with smartphones/tablets: if you open WorkFlowy in CT’s internal browser on the PC, you can dock it as if it was CT’s own outliner (this is where the word wrap comes in), so you can have an outliner/task manager in CT which is in constant sync with your mobile devices.

The Checkvist list for instance doesn’t word-wrap, so you’d need to scroll horizontally, which is not efficient. The CT integration is not 100%, as occasionally extra lines are inserted and the cursor jumps to the second line, but it’s nothing critical and hopefully it will improve in the future.