I’ve been using workflowy for awhile now and it is now my notes system. Recently learned that you can organize notes as boards in workflowy – very neat! So this lets Workflowy function as a Kanban type tool (similar to Trello). One thing I still like better in Trello is the ability to include photos and screenshots in a card.
Update 2021-08-09 – Workflowy now has the ability to paste in images.
I really like the ability to paste images into workflowy. Makes it very handy for capturing reference notes and bits from datasheets on various bits of equipment I have laying around here.
One of the features I use a lot in Workflowy is the Ctrl-; keyboard shortcut to bring up the quick Jump to… search box. This makes it incredibly quick to find a note.
To get to Workflowy quickly, I map a keyboard shortcut in KDE to bring the Workflowy app to the foreground. The wmctrl app is what does the work.
So with Meta-Space, Ctrl-; and a few keystrokes I can quickly get to about any note.
Another powerful feature of workflowy is the mirror feature where a node can live in multiple places. This is very useful for organizing information and is also a feature of Simple IoT.
These stats popped up recently:
72,188 total bullets. That is an average of 37 bullets a day. I did purchase several books in WorkFlowy format that may account for a good bit of these. But still, this is a massive amount of personal information, and if I understand the architecture, the WorkFlowy app supports full offline support, so the entire dataset is stored locally. Searching is super fast. Syncing between devices is flawless and instant. It is an amazing tool. If you would like to try a free account, use the below code and get 100 extra monthly items (I have a paid account, so does not make any difference to me):
Workflowy Pro costs $49 year, or ~$4/mo.
