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Do Way, Way More in WorkFlowy - Frank Degenaar's book
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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 24, 2015 at 05:44 PM
yosemite wrote:
>I used to be a workflowy “expert” ... until I read this book. Now I’m
>just a power user I suppose.
You got off lightly ;-) After Frank’s book I feel more like a basic/lower intermediate user…
frank.dg wrote:
>Let me know if there’s anything I
>can expand on from the book.
Frank, welcome to the forum!
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.
Posted by frank.dg
Oct 25, 2015 at 01:59 PM
All of what Dr. Andus said… plus… tinker with WorkFlowy and get comfortable moving around. Use their keyboard shortcuts until it’s second nature… then you’ll even develop workflows of your own and share with others :-)
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 25, 2015 at 10:27 PM
hansolo wrote:
>I didn’t know one could
>combine Markdown into Workflowy, or that one could have links to another
>part of the document.
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.
Now I’m trying to decide if I’ve overdone it and if I should only colour in my tags, which is yet another option. But it’s easy enough to switch on and off styles and extensions in Chrome.
Posted by frank.dg
Oct 26, 2015 at 01:17 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>But it’s easy enough to switch
>on and off styles and extensions in Chrome.
Yep… no matter how much you change things up, there’s always the off switch :-)... or if you happen to switch to mobile device it’s back to the way things were before. I say there’s nothing to lose.