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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 1, 2015 at 07:45 PM
Dr Andus, thank you kindly for your response. I apologize for taking so long to acknowledge it.
I bought Frank’s book, and found it helpful, especially the info re Stylish. I like a simple layout, but am also partial to colour, and a darker type for notes.
Zettlekasten has a lovely logic to it. I am not finding the programs dedicated to it quite to my liking. However, utilizing it in Workflowy seems like a natural solution. Now that I am part of the university I can access electronically and without charge all the journals I desire, both for my actual courses and my personal interests. I often prefer to take notes longhand while reading, and then enter them on the computer. It aids retention for my ageing brain through utilizing different neurological pathways and repetition.
Again, thank you for your help!
Daly
Dr Andus wrote:
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.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 6, 2015 at 11:56 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>What I didn’t know was that you can have colour in WorkFlowy. The last
>few days I’ve been going crazy colour-coding my main projects and tasks
>and then organising them into groups by colour.
Here is a cool new style for WorkFlowy (using Stylish browser add-on):
Zen Colour Labels
https://userstyles.org/styles/120974/workflowy-zen-colour-labels
Yet another way to go crazy with colours in WorkFlowy…
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2015 at 07:15 PM
hansolo wrote:
>I didn’t know one could
>combine Markdown into Workflowy
Here is an interesting post from Frank on how to preview Markdown in WorkFlowy:
http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/12/17/markdown-preview/
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 15, 2016 at 12:29 AM
Frank is giving away his chapter on how to use the Stylish extension with WorkFlowy for free, if anyone is interested:
http://blog.workflowy.com/2016/01/14/lifelogging-tag-count/
The blog post is interesting for other reasons as well, such as how to use WorkFlowy for date and time logging visually (using colours and graphs), such as for the “Don’t Break the Chain” method.
I have to admit this is far beyond my own WorkFlowy skills or patience levels to even try to implement such a system in WorkFlowy, but it looks impressive nonetheless.
One key benefit of WorkFlowy being a web-based service is the ability for users to develop browser extensions and styles and add functionality to it that maybe its inventors themselves had never imagined.