moo.do - new service in the workflowy / checkvist space

Posted by jaslar
Nov 26, 2014 at 04:17 PM

Thank you for posting here. And thank you for developing such an intriguing and useful product.

I tried Moo.do yesterday for quite a while, both on my iPad 2 and my Nexus 7. There are many things to like. As you might expect from the folks here, I’m an outlining fan, so dove right into that. On both platforms, it worked well, and I didn’t need bullets to make sense of it.

I liked the ease of adding dates and contacts. I liked the agenda view. The controls for prioritizing and cleaning things up came clear pretty quickly. I like the ease of searching.

As a standalone tool across multiple platforms, this is very good - an elegant UI, good functions, and kind of fun to play with. I could easily see adopting it as a dashboard for llife.

But I have a couple of questions and observations.

First, and excuse me if I just missed this, but how (on the platforms I mentioned), do I copy or export text? For instance, the outliner worked so well I quickly put together a draft of something I’d like to flesh out in a word processor. But I couldn’t find a way to select, copy and paste. Nor, come to think of it, was I able to paste a URL next to a to do item. A lot of the folks here move data across several apps.

Second, the Google sign in made me think I would see some of the dates on my Google calendar. I suspect that Google integration adds a whole other layer of complexity to your work, but that would certainly increase its value, too. (I do like the ability to quickly pop into an email, though.)

Too, I’ve noticed that leaving the program to do something else then coming back forces Moo.do (on the Android version, anyhow) to reload - a bit of an annoyance.

Finally, what’s your business plan with this. How will you make money?

At any rate, the software is interesting enough to keep me at it for several hours. Well done!