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moo.do - new service in the workflowy / checkvist space
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 29, 2014 at 01:54 PM
I had a similar experience on Mac and moved back to Safari from Chrome, after experimenting with the nice (but not quite nice enough) Opera.
But I’ve now moved back to Chrome, because the latest 64-bit version is much lighter on resources, and actually much more stable and less resource-intensive than the latest versions of Safari. It’s the (range and depth of) extensions that make it so desirable.
Posted by yosemite
May 18, 2015 at 06:01 PM
And now there’s another service similar to these called quire.io heavily geared to task management and not as much freeform outlining. Well, apparently it’s been around a year or so but it’s new to me. I’ve tried it a few times and it’s got potential, but in comparison to workflowy there’s some major annoyances. For example, it can’t seem to find tags from its universal search box at the top. And with its filter bar, you can’t filter for two tags (A and B). These kinds of things are rock-bottom basic for me, but others may find it interesting.
Meanwhile moo.do continues to develop and it’s pretty nice. Especially for those in the Google ecosystem.
Checkvist also has made numerous major improvements in the last year. Kir has posted here about some of them, such as markdown and multiple-item selection. Both of work pretty well in my testing. But for me checkvist is still too slow and hit-or-miss. Every time I see a new feature added, I test it again, and sometimes it’s pretty quick, but sometimes it’s just slow or spontaneously reloads, taking several seconds. I don’t know, I’m sure it works great for some, and it does have an awesome feature set, so I recommend you check it out if you haven’t already.
I continue to use and rely on workflowy. I recently started using it in conjunction with TileTabs (Firefox) and it is tremendous. Thank you to Dr Andus for the tip here:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/22346
With TileTabs and some custom css I got from userstyles, I have four or more tiles in Firefox, each showing different views of my workflowy outline. One is the full thing for navigation perspective, one is a search on #now or #today, one is whatever I’m working on at the moment, and the last one or more are for quick drill downs to various areas I want to look at temporarily.
The key thing here is that workflowy can have all these views be independent - each can be zoomed in on any branch of the outline, and each can have its own search terms in effect. Moo.do can do this too, but checkvist doesn’t seem to be able to.
Posted by yosemite
Jun 28, 2015 at 08:17 PM
And now there’s another
omniflow.io
I have just started testing it, it seems fast and very similar to workflowy (which is good!). Doesn’t have clickable #tags and @tags but they’re working on it.
Some discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/38twac/omniflow_let_your_ideas_flow/
And a roadmap with voting: https://trello.com/b/z0HxDPNo/omniflow-roadmap
Posted by jaslar
Jul 5, 2015 at 06:44 PM
Thanks, Yosemite. I signed up and played with it. I’m still CRIMPing around for a light single-pane outliner for writing.The key difference between this and Workflowy is that it uses files: a document pane on the left. As a writer, that works just fine for me. It could be a great addition to the toolchest.
I like Omniflow’s simple and intuitive commands, implementation of hoist, search, and spellcheck. It lacks word count (don’t they realize that with word count, software reviewers will say “now HERE’S somebody who solves a problem?”), and export options are limited to one includes-all-files zip folder. I couldn’t get import to work at all. But it’s possible to select all and paste text - which includes modest markup (no footnotes). The files, of course, sit on someone else’s server, or at least I think they do.
Promising, though.
Posted by jaslar
Jul 6, 2015 at 12:03 AM
Update: the export and import options for Omniflow are really backup options: one creates a zip file of your work, and the other restores it. But I sent them some detailed feedback and got immediate and thoughtful response.
I do have to say how much I appreciate the good work of good programmers. This past month I spent about $50 on programs I don’t even really use much these days, but I truly do value the work they represent.