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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 12, 2020 at 09:34 AM
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
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 12, 2020 at 07:15 PM
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).
Posted by jaslar
Jun 16, 2020 at 08:08 PM
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.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 17, 2020 at 11:50 AM
Alas, Gingko appears to be on the wane, whereas Workflowy is very much on the rise…