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Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 21, 2022 at 11:54 PM
Dormouse wrote:
>Can’t you just type ‘now’ then tab? I find that’s as fast as anything,
>and can do it whenever and wherever you want.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it’s not really the same thing. This solution would require a mental and physical effort to add a date and time stamp manually to every single bullet point, which would make WorkFlowy unusable, as it would visually overwhelm and pollute the content.
Dynalist has a really elegant solution for this, and the date and time stamp for the creation of every bullet point is preserved and displayed alongside the last modified date and time stamp when you hover over the bullet. It’s there if you need it, without interfering with the content.
I don’t really understand why WorkFlowy doesn’t think it’s important to preserve the time stamp of the creation of a note. It’s an essential parameter of any note.
The lack of it prevents you from conducting certain types of analyses of your historical data and essentially it’s a form of data loss. If you accidentally modify a bullet point, you lost the date and time of its creation (unless I’m missing something).
Posted by satis
May 18, 2022 at 09:55 AM
“5 new features that make Workflowy an even better note-taking tool”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90752330/five-new-features-workflowy
Posted by ndodge
Jun 12, 2022 at 09:31 PM
Wow, I haven’t been on this forum or perused new tools in a while. I’ve posted a couple times, years ago, about essentially having mini outlines in different table cells. I wasn’t thrilled with any suggested options. Boards, like in Workflowy, I think are just what I am looking for.
I have these boards:
Disciplines (stuff I should do every day, week, month, quarter, year)
Weekly—stuff going on weekly on certain days (sub items for mon, tue, etc with lists under each item)
Events - one-off upcoming events, by month
Projects - larger ongoing stuff
Tasks - one-off things I should do that won’t take too much time
This week - quick and dirty scratch pad for the current week)
Today - quick and dirty scratch pad for today).
I whipped all this up in a few minutes, pretty naturally, because it’s exactly what I wanted. I tried doing all this in one vertical list but it just didn’t jive with my brian. These boards do. I can collapse / expand / zoom in at so many different levels and move / rearrange pretty easily too. I think I will try moving a bunch of stuff from some kind of disorganized Dynalist lists that turned into more like dumping grounds.