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Posted by Luhmann
Apr 22, 2016 at 02:17 AM
It is a shame that Workflowy seems to be dead in the water and all the blog posts are about hacks or unsupported third party kludges. But if you use workflowy on iOS you will want this app:
HandyFlowy Brings WorkFlowy’s Feature-Rich Desktop Goodness (and more) to iOS
—WorkFlowy Blog
http://blog.workflowy.com/2016/04/21/handyflowy-workflowy
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 22, 2016 at 12:01 PM
Luhmann wrote:
>It is a shame that Workflowy seems to be dead in the water
Not to me. I use it every day all day long and it’s very much working and alive.
True there haven’t been new features released for a while. But I’m personally pretty satisfied with what WorkFlowy is capable of doing as it is, so I don’t have a huge need for new features.
>and all the
>blog posts are about hacks or unsupported third party kludges.
Considering that this is a company run by two people AFAIK, I prefer if they spent their time on maintaining the service and developing new features, rather than with blogging.
As for the possibility for 3rd party app developers and script writers to come in and be able to extend the service by adding new functionalities, to me that’s a very positive thing rather than a problem.
Posted by tightbeam
Apr 22, 2016 at 12:48 PM
How is Workflowy “dead in the water”? It does what it’s supposed to do, and it’s enormously useful to lots of people (myself included) on a day-to-day basis.
There’s an unfortunate belief among some that development must be a perpetual process. Why bloat a perfectly good product for the sake of “development”? In its current state, Workflowy approaches perfection, for the objective it was designed to achieve, and I’d encourage the developers to tweak all they like but NOT to bolt on new “features” that will only encumber, not enhance.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 22, 2016 at 07:01 PM
A disclaimer appeared in the meantime on the WorkFlowy blog:
“DISCLAIMER: This is not an official recommendation from the WorkFlowy team. We do not make this app, and we do not officially support it. It may break at any time, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Frank, our volunteer blogger, really likes this app and helped contribute to it, so we’re letting him write about it here.”
One thing I’m wondering about is how safe (in terms of privacy) your WorkFlowy data is if you access it via a 3rd party app in iOS like HandFlowy. Would the provider of HandFlowy have access to user data at any point?
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 22, 2016 at 07:28 PM
I downloaded HandFlowy. It’s a mess. Tools menu is incomprehensible, and flies into view then disappear. One of the settings options is to hide settings—go figure. Seems the point of the app is to show ads and induce users to pay the $4.99 US premium to get rid of them—the usual annoying bait in a lot of iOS apps.