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Posted by Simon
Aug 11, 2021 at 11:34 AM
Is anyone still using workflowy as a main workhorse?
Posted by Gorski
Aug 11, 2021 at 06:48 PM
Simon wrote:
Is anyone still using workflowy as a main workhorse?
Yep. Why do you ask?
Posted by Simon
Aug 11, 2021 at 08:14 PM
Mark wrote:
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>Simon wrote:
>Is anyone still using workflowy as a main workhorse?
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>Yep. Why do you ask?
For all the fully featured Obsidian/Roam/Craft/Dynalist etc. I realise I miss the simplicity of what Workflowy was 5 years back when I last used it. I’m increasingly finding I need one place for all my text and have been reconsidering Workflowy, so I wanted to ask how it’s going. How does it work with a lot of text and how good is search?
To be honest the whole backlinks/forward links thing doesn’t really work for me. They may tell me that my mind works like that but in practice it doesn’t. My mind likes outlines!
Posted by Reder
Aug 12, 2021 at 04:19 AM
Simon wrote:
Is anyone still using workflowy as a main workhorse?
Yes. I keep coming back to use Workflowy after all those years.The latest one I tried is Obsidian.
I have to say that the introduction of Mirrors solved my main complain about Workflowy - a node can’t belong to multiple parents.
Of all the products, Workflowy still has the smoothest user experience. Everything is well thought through and there are some clever decisions that makes it both simple but powerful. I really like how it blends the side pane with starred pages and the whole document to make it easy to move things around. If one has a well structured front page, the categorization is shown on the side pane.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM
Simon wrote:
>been reconsidering Workflowy, so I wanted to ask how it’s going. How
>does it work with a lot of text and how good is search?
The pace of development has picked up in recent years, so it’s definitely an improved service from some years ago.
But Workflowy has always been good at the basics, such as speed or finding things.
If your WorkFlowy file is very big (such as mine, after many years of use), it will take a a few seconds to load the initial page after logging in the very first time in a browser, but after that in regular daily use it’s super fast.
So if you’re looking for a workhorse, you can’t go wrong with WorkFlowy. It’s good value for money.
I have moved on to RoamResearch as my daily information management system, but I continue to use WorkFlowy for some specific things, and it also continues to be my archive.