I haven't heard anything about Workflowy in last fews months, and it seems their blog not updated since August. That makes me a trifle nervous.

Is there any news, a word from the developers?

Thanks.

Daly

No, I haven't heard anything either. But your post did prompt me to go into my setting and choose the backup to Dropbox option, just in case!

Daly de Gagne wrote:

I haven't heard anything about Workflowy in last fews months, and it
seems their blog not updated since August. That makes me a trifle
nervous.

Is there any news, a word from the developers?

It's not entirely out of character for them to go silent on the blog for a while:

"Why no blogging from WorkFlowy? Babies!"

http://blog.workflowy.com/2014/03/21/why-no-blogging-from-workflowy-babies/

Workflowy is a foundation of my productivity setup, as of today. I suspect many other people are in the same situation.
There is a very comforting feeling to know you have a simple, very easy to use plain text outliner that can be accessed from anywhere.
The fact that every node is, in and of itself, a new document (that is, a bookmarkable URL), and has very sleek visual and transition animations, is a bonus.
It works with raw/pure text, so it is really universal. You paste raw text on it and you export plain text out of it too. VeEEEery straigtforward.
Great keyboard shortcut support, e.g., a simple ESC goes to search/filter mode, a new hit ESC returns to the editor.
Also, URL links are automatically created . So, i use chrome extensions to export lists of tabs to it and use it as my tab session manager, availiable from anywhere

Answering the question, according to a topic on Quora, they are just fine. http://www.quora.com/How-is-WorkFlowy-doing-as-of-September-2014
In my experience it is a very focused app, steadily being updated and fine tuned. It has GREAT UI and User Experience.
I urge that anyone interested on productivity apps take a look in Workflowy and see if it fits on your Workflow.

I like the tool, too, and find myself spending more time in it for many of the reasons you say: easy to use, easy to fly around, easy to add and rearrange things, etc. I bought the annual subscription, and will no doubt renew.

I spent much of today doing research for a "chapter" I'm writing, though (an essay for an American publishing reference work, actually), and saw some of the limitations. I had to look at a lot of pdf journal articles. Cutting and pasting citations and quotes was a little clunky and required a lot of cleanup. So it probably isn't the best tool for that. ConnectedText is probably better (based on what I read here - I haven't really used it). While I like Worfklowy's speed and cleanliness, it really didn't seem to be optimized for that use. Dr. Andus's workflow probably would have worked better, but not for a single project, probably. Too much ramp-up time!

Tomorrow I'll be doing the writing to start plugging the quotes into my outline - and that might be a little clunky, too. I suspect I'll wind up with an editor (WriteDown, maybe, just to put it through its paces) in one window, and Workflowy in the other, side by side. Both of these are Chrome apps, which is interesting, too (because I'm bouncing around various devices, mainly). But somehow I can't see using Workflowy for the drafting and final edit. It doesn't give me the word count, I can't easily consult citations AND write. And not only do I not have two big monitors side by side, I usually use a laptop or tablet screen.

I've noticed that almost everybody on this forum winds up stringing together five to ten apps to accommodate their workflow. That's probably just the way it goes. We all have our own wrinkles and needs. Speaking for myself, I can't imagine how I could balance my fondness for minimal user interfaces with a longing for a one-stop shop for research, pattern-recognition and writing.

Nonetheless, Workflowy seems to have found its way into my core tool chest.

Btw, if someone haven't joined Workflowy yet, and wants to have extra (double) quota for items on the free plan, please do so via this link -> https://workflowy.com/invite/3b434be.lnx

You get double free items and i get 250 free items too.

Yes, it seems they are still working on the (great) product. They are a very small team, so they don't blog much.

They just posted a news item to their blog, reporting "You can now paste hierarchical lists from either Microsoft Word, or from a plain text editor, and WorkFlowy will maintain the hierarchy of the text."
http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/01/19/workflowy-feature-import-outlines-from-microsoft-word-and-plain-text/

They're on a roll: Expand While in Search Mode
http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/01/20/workflowy-feature-expand-while-in-search-mode/

And yet another, Workflowy Is For Thinking, http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/01/27/workflowy-is-for-thinking/ in which they link to an animated post by a Workflowy user that some might find helpful:
http://blog.sojourner.co/resources/apps/gtd/2015/01/26/workflowy-to-the-rescue/

Shoot, that first URL captured the following comma. It should be http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/01/27/workflowy-is-for-thinking/

It isn't easy to learn anything about Workflowy. No matter what page you land on at their website you only get a login form. No other links on any page until after you log in, apparently.

I know that many sing their praises, but the way they handle their website isn't very encouraging. At least not enough to make me want to go through anything further to find out.

Jim

I agree. Workflowy site is too minimalistic, and not as helpful as it could be with more - words!

As a user of Workflowy there's times I want to see the site, and not see my outline. There's not an obvious easy way of doing that.

Nonetheless an amazing product which comes the closest to the outlining ideal (the 2 exceptions being lack of columns & ability to have more than 1 window open).

Daly

J-Mac wrote:

It isn't easy to learn anything about Workflowy. No matter what page you
land on at their website you only get a login form. No other links on
any page until after you log in, apparently.

I know that many sing their praises, but the way they handle their
website isn't very encouraging. At least not enough to make me want to
go through anything further to find out.

Jim

& ability to have more than 1 window open

Can't you just open two or more browser tabs with different views of the outline or two or more browser windows and display them side-by-side?

Mark wrote:

> & ability to have more than 1 window open

Can't you just open two or more browser tabs with different views of the
outline or two or more browser windows and display them side-by-side?

If you're using Firefox, the Tile Tabs ad-on is fantastic for this. You can split the Firefox window and can have multiple panes with different sections of the WorkFlowy outline installed. Very easy to deploy: just right-click in FF and choose where you want the split window to be displayed (left, right, up, down and more):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/

Paulo Diniz wrote:

Btw, if someone haven't joined Workflowy yet, and wants to have extra
(double) quota for items on the free plan, please do so via this link ->
https://workflowy.com/invite/3b434be.lnx

You get double free items and i get 250 free items too.

Thanks for the referral. Now we both get an extra 250 items. :)

--Ken

While describing the speed of WorkFlowy's development as 'snail's pace' would be unfair to snails, there have been a few improvements recently, though none of these are revolutionary:

"WorkFlowy Has A Fancy New Left Bar"
https://blog.workflowy.com/2019/12/30/workflowy-has-a-fancy-new-left-bar/

"Dates in WorkFlowy: Try it out"
https://blog.workflowy.com/2019/12/30/dates-in-workflowy-try-it-out/

Wow! Those are two big features! I'm digging in... so far I love the "search helper" the most...

yosemite wrote:

Wow! Those are two big features! I'm digging in... so far I love the
"search helper" the most...

Initially I didn't think much of it (as Dynalist is miles ahead with their File Pane), but the new left bar in WF is becoming useful for setting up "starred" items as bookmarks for quick access.

Now they just need to add a tag pane finally...

As for the date feature, I prefer Dynalist's implementation still.

More Workflowy news.

I recently noticed it has added Kanban-style boards, allowing you to take vertical lists and display them horizontally. Haven't seen an official announcement though maybe I missed it somewhere. Nice, clean implementation, as is typical of Workflowy.

And the founder says Roam Research-like backlinks will be added "soon."

https://twitter.com/jessep/status/1257126823713886210

Oh, and to do checkboxes.

https://twitter.com/jessep/status/1257341545491181571

To quote the founder:

We've recently built all the infrastructure needed to build these kinds of little features, and we'll start rolling them out.

And images:

https://twitter.com/jessep/status/1121452244933672962

And hyperlinks:

https://twitter.com/badboyboyce/status/1251585613675016192

OK. I'll shut up now. Just amused by the discovery of this since this thread began when there was a dearth of news about new developments.

Hot damn, that kanban feature is seriously cool! Love it!

Mark wrote:

More Workflowy news.

I recently noticed it has added Kanban-style boards, allowing you to
take vertical lists and display them horizontally. Haven't seen an
official announcement though maybe I missed it somewhere. Nice, clean
implementation, as is typical of Workflowy.

And the founder says Roam Research-like backlinks will be added "soon."

https://twitter.com/jessep/status/1257126823713886210

Actually, the kanban feature really IS cool, not least because it remembers the setting for a specific node, and you can easily collapse (fold) sub-nodes in their respective columns. Hot damn!

Wow! That’s totally revolutionised the usefulness of Workflowy! Wow!

What you can’t yet do, alas, is easily drag and drop cards between columns. That slightly diminishes the kanban-like efficiency, but it’s still a great step forward.