Do Way, Way More in WorkFlowy - Frank Degenaar's book

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 24, 2015 at 06:25 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I’d be interested in hearing more ... on your own setup for academic work. >and am wondering how best to use
>Workflowy for managing deadlines, exam dates, and notes.

Hi Daly, concerning the time-sensitive task management aspect, I would recommend reading the PRIORITIZE YOUR BRAIN - TASK MANAGEMENT chapter in Frank’s book. I’m still digesting the implications of his book, so whatever I’ve been doing on WorkFlowy is very likely to change now.

What I do can’t really be called a ‘setup’ or a ‘system,’ while Frank offers some pretty sophisticated solutions, such as Kanban calendar and the like.

As WorkFlowy doesn’t have reminders, I still use Google Calendar for deadlines and exam dates and such.

I’ve been using WorkFlowy in an extremely basic way: I manually push the most urgent and important tasks to the very top of the list, so the top of my WorkFlowy would be a short list of tasks or projects ordered according to due date and importance.

I still add a date tag to time-sensitive tasks or notes that need a date stamp like this: @24_Oct_2015 but I haven’t really integrated them into my workflow as Frank does.

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I also want to begin a knowledge base reflecting my recent and growing
>interest in genocide.

This is an interesting issue. As you may know, I use ConnectedText for my knowledge base, more or less implementing a Zettelkasten system. But recently it occurred to me that WorkFlowy could also be used as a Zettelkasten (though without some of the extra functionality that CT offers).

Christian Tietze came up with a list of criteria for what features a Zettelkasten software needs (http://zettelkasten.de/posts/baseline-zettelkasten-software-reviews/), and looking at those criteria, WorkFlowy meets most if not all of them.

Check Christian’s use of NValt for his Zettelkasten: this could be emulated in WorkFlowy fairly well:

http://zettelkasten.de/posts/nvalt-zettelkasten-implementation/

>Concurrently, I am moving ahead (finally) with a book based on my
>experiences as a chaplain and therapist. Again, I am wondering how
>best to use Workflowy.

Again, check Frank’s chapter PUBLISH YOUR BRAIN (2) - A BOOK-WRITING WORKFLOW. He wrote his book in WorkFlowy, and illustrates the process throughout.