![]() ![]() One of the many great things about Workflowy is that there are apps for Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Linux so you have most of the platforms covered which is great. Why? I want to be able to see the crazy stuff that comes out of my brain in my own filesystem and not depend on someone else's app to access my notes, data, and not-so-deep thoughts. Yes, I know, clouds cost money to run but I want local first. I suppose if it's where I was to store my entire memory, then maybe that's OK but a lot of people cannot afford that amount. It's USD 4.99 a month or 49.99 a year which is a bit much for me. Workflowy comes with 5 fonts and you can add more if you upgrade, i.e. Now I see the light and, just like her Dynalist and Obsidian suggestions over the years, it reminds me how freakin' wise she is! When Janet shared a Workflowy link with our family 10+ years ago, I didn't quite get the concept. For a new user, you could also be confused if you're moving from a text-writing app. Once I remembered how outlining works, it was a better experience and result. Instead and unknowingly, I created outdented bullets which, in outlining lingo, are separate nodes. having something shiny to look at.īecause I'm not an outliner guy, I used headings # and did not enter my notes under the headings. The UI is primarily light grey which is likely intentional to get you focused on writing vs. When you launch the app at first you will not be blown away. I liked the Windows desktop app better than the Android app but the Android one is quite good. Workflowy is a powerful and freemium Web-based outliner wrapped in an Android app, at least that's how it feels. Now back out of that rabbit hole and let me tell you about the actual app! Other investors include Precursor Ventures where Workflowy is one of their 390 investments and UP2398 run by 3 ex-eBay folks including Billionaire Pierre Morad Omidyar who founded eBay, Alex Poon, and Randy Ching. They had four investors including Y-Combinator where they started plus Will Smith (not the one you're thinking of) from Octave which also invested in another big note-taking app Notion and 27 other companies. Why? If that's where you're keeping your personal notes, it's good to know who is protecting them and keeping them safe from bad actors/actresses! Now that we know who started Workflowy, let's see who else owns it. What's interesting is Mike's LinkedIn profile shows that he studies focused in graphics design and then he built a completely text-based editor. and Mike in 2005 with a Masters in Comp Sci. Both graduated from Stanford, Jesse in 2003 with a BS in Product Design and Mechanical Eng. Workflowy was started in 2010 by Jesse Patel who seems to be there still 13 years later and Michael (Mike) Turitzin who sold most of his part and is now a Software Engineer at Figma. I highly recommend watching that video, not now, after you read this! :) Back then the app was called Work Flowy and somehow was renamed to Work flowy, so less emphasis on flow? I kid! Looking back at my old emails, the first time I heard of it was in Scott Hansleman's 2012 talk " It's not what you read, it's what you ignore". This week's app is Worflowy which my sister Janet started using back in 2016 mostly for work but then also with her family and our families. Your brain will want to edit or add something to an existing part.Welcome Ricardo from no-fixed address, Esther from New York, Reginald from Florida and Captain Nemo (!) from Italy. Now you may be wondering how to do that in practice.īecause when you have a whole page of text, even structured with an outline, your attention will be drawn to other parts of your writing. It is a very focused session on a particular and small aspect of your project. It is the source of procrastination.Īlso, you don’t lose time thinking about what to write. This part of your brain hates effort that doesn’t bring immediate rewards. You don’t feel overwhelmed because the effort is so small that your survival brain won’t be triggered and send you to eat chocolate or watch TV (or both!). ![]() The best is that it builds up very naturally. Nano-writing + compound interest = long-form quality content. You will end up with a full draft before you know it. Your nano creative/writing sessions will compound over the day and the week. The idea that you may not have exploited so far is to break it down into atomic/nano chunks. This should already be what you do, so nothing new here. Meaning that you need to write a detailed outline (we’ll see later how crucial this word is). You take your creative project or at least its written part (thus the script for a video or screenplay), and you break it down into small parts. ![]()
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