Hi,

Can anyone recommend a list program that allows you to add entries in multiple columns and move them up down and across columns?

I am currently doing this with either a word document and single-row multi-column table, and with excel.

I would ideally like to be able to move entries with a keyboard shortcut (like alt+arrow-keys moves nodes in the tree structure in keynote)

What I am after is similar to Trello or similar Kanban boards, but is not for task management and I have found those programs/services too complex for my needs.

Many thanks
Brian

Hi Brian,

I think TreeSheets kann exactly do, what you need

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

And something more.

Best regards

Achim

Kanbanflow may be what you are after. There are many others, but it is dead simple and very easy to use.

--Ken

WorkFlowy has now a column view ("board") as well.

Dr Andus wrote:

WorkFlowy has now a column view ("board") as well.

a demo was just published today, if this helps:

https://beta.workflowy.com/post/fractal-boards/

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies.

I'll check all of these out, but TreeSheets, which I've already had a go on, is fantastic!

Dr Andus wrote:

>WorkFlowy has now a column view ("board") as well.
a demo was just published today, if this helps:
https://beta.workflowy.com/post/fractal-boards/

I never got on well with workflowy in the past, though I can see that it is very powerful. This looks like it brings it to another level!

Treesheets has a bit of a leaning curve hence not a huge take up, but the potential is nearly infinite and the numerous variety of visual templates one can create many exquisite and quite unique, plus numerous uses. Keyboard shortcuts galore, joy to behold for pro writers and natural born coders.

uvoutliner has column support

http://www.uvoutliner.com/tour/

Brian wrote:

I never got on well with workflowy in the past, though I can see that it
is very powerful. This looks like it brings it to another level!

Competition from Dynalist lit a fire under the Workflowy devs after years of poky development. But it's really improved a lot lately (with still work ahead of itself.) Farhad Manjoo at the NYTimes impressively has been using it since 2012, through the Dark Period for the service.

Workflowy’s “boards” are much more impressive than I realised. But after watching their video on “fractal boards” (the web page also has a demo Workflowy outline you can play with), I’ve realised just how powerful the whole concept is. You can mix outlines with boards, showing both simultaneously, and the result is a planning tool of considerable power. Also great for writers, incidentally!

There are a couple of things I would suggest, such as being able to embed outline items in other outlines/boards (oh dear, can’t remember what that’s called, offhand – not aliases, although similar idea – but I know it’s a common request of outliners). But Workflowy’s use of tags is already impressive.

The material on fractal boards is here: https://workflowy.com/post/fractal-boards/

Cheers,
Bill

MadaboutDana wrote:

There are a couple of things I would suggest, such as being able to
embed outline items in other outlines/boards (oh dear, cant
remember what that's called, offhand; not aliases, although
similar idea but I know it;s a common request of
outliners).

You're probably thinking of transclusion, which is at the heart of RoamResearch (who have just launched their paid-for version and offline version earlier this week).

Yes, it's strange WorkFlowy hasn't implemented it yet, as their items have had their unique URLs all along.

At the moment RoamResearch seems to be signing up a lot of users wanting transclusion (i.e. granularity of being able to remix bullet-point level content).

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Gingko (https://gingkoapp.com/ Its whole thing is horizontal outlining, meaning it's easy to edit from the keyboard to shuffle things around columns.

Alas, Gingko appears to be on the wane, whereas Workflowy is very much on the rise...