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Simple, flexible, powerful.
I’m an organizational development consultant who teaches time management to managers and executives at Fortune 500 and large private companies. I regularly test personal productivity tools so I can make recommendations to clients; if you are an individual contributor, or a specialist who does not delegate tasks frequently, I heartily recommend you try this app. In fact, after many years as a power user of OmniFocus, I have switched to WorkFlowy as my task management app.
I’m doing so because WorkFlowy is built around a simple outliner and #tags. You can get up and running in 5 minutes, be a power user within 24 hours — and (if that’s your thing), be running your fully configured, personalized GTD “implementation” a day or two later.Show lessStephen_Francis
Best to do list I've found after all these years
This to do list has literally saved my life. My favorite feature is being able to check if you wrote something down by just typing the word in the search box and everything with that word will come up and it's highlighted. Genius! Thank you so much! Don't know what I would do without this todo list xoxo
PS I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new duplicate option feature. Been waiting for this for soooo long. Please don’t get rid of it!!!Show lessIvanna22
Simple, Easy, and Powerful
This app is simple and easy yet can be used in an unlimited number of ways from preparing a grocery list to running a business. I own and operate a business. I use the app for just about everything; project tracking, meeting notes, call tracking, brain storming, product information, and much more. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. Keep up the good work guys. I look forward to seeing what you come up with next.Show lessAusJim115
Indispensable
Use it EVERY day- don’t know how I would get by without it. I have my whole life outlined under categories Time, Money, Self, & Things. Under Time, I keep a running 7 day To-Do list plus Upcoming dates and Shopping list. I print this out almost every day and keep it in my pocket. I make notes on it during the day; and then update & reprint the next morning. The mobile version is not as easy to use as the desktop version, but still worth having as a backup when you’re out.Show lessTrainkarr
Essential tool for me now
This has become such a great organization tool for me. I track my work and personal notes here. I use it for lists, brainstorming, projects and processes. I love that I can drag items or sections and also print or copy and paste into word or other apps when I want to share a section.
My favorite is my work folder where I can track my performance and goals for a year with sublists and notes. If I don’t accomplish the goal or project by year end, I just drag it into the next year’s list. All done? Cross it off. So simple, yet so beautifully practical. Thank you!Show lessjeanasalman
Great But Could Be Better
I love just about everything this app can do. I’ve been using it for over a month (for a book) and the only complaint I have is how difficult it is to move one bullet into another with the drag and drop feature. It’s very finicky and is more likely to make the bullet I select move above/below or as a sub-bullet for the bullet I want to move into. Doing once every and again it wouldn’t bother me but when I make a long list of things and want it to be in a category I already created its quite a hassle to move each bullet one by one. Overall fantastic app but hopefully the developers see this and consider improving this feature.Show lesspiglatina
Love it
Fantastic. Super-simple concept, executed really well. Hard to explain how “it just works,” but everyone I’ve shown it to gets it almost immediately.
I use it for things to do now, and later, and maybe someday. I use it to track books to read and movies to watch. I use it to share grocery lists with my wife. Anything, really: I get it out of my head so I can focus, knowing that details are always at hand when I’ll need them.
I had been using a premium version of Toodle-do and really liked it, but this seems to suit my brain better. Yes, you could do something like this on your own with Word or Excel. Yes, you could use ToodleDo or Remember The Milk or Apple's Notes or Stickies or whatever the new Apple ToDo list maker is. Yes, you could do this with physical Post-It notes or a Moleskine or a string on your finger.
There are lots of ways to organize ideas and lists of things that might become projects. Perhaps you'll find that it works for you too.Show lessCashew Gesundheit
Best Listmaking App Out There
I downloaded this app years ago. My brain thinks in bullet points, and I wanted an app that I could take notes with in the way my brain processes ideas. I remember searching for a long time, weeding through popular apps that didn’t satisfy me. Then one day I stumbled upon WorkFlowy. I loved it immediately for how simple and streamlined it is. It works perfectly for taking notes and making lists, and I love that it syncs over to the web version as well. I wish this app was more popular!Show lessnajacob73
Good idea in wrong hands
This app has been dormant for many years. People, including me, stuck with the app so that someday it will be up to the expectations. The blog posts, zen desk page has many requests unanswered and ignored. I will only talk about the mobile app below.
This is NOT a native iOS app so the user experience is not good. It’s hard to navigate, go in edit mode etc. You might as well just open this in Safari and you should be good, except if you care offline support
If you are a pro member then you are not getting money’s worth. For the same price or less you will get some great notetaking and todo apps. Themes on desktop are not available on mobile. Unfortunately Workflowy like outlining is not available anywhere except a few clones that don’t do a good job.
It took them few years just to add the ability to change Fonts, and then few months to introduce swipe completion/deletion.
The website on Safari may load faster than the app itself.
As you would find in most native apps, there are widgets and 3-D touch support. This app don’t.
The whole theme of Workflowy is using the tags. There is not auto suggestion on tags as you would find it on desktop. It makes really hard to add a tag and be consistent.
There is no share feature but I don’t use it. They are planning to add it.
Overall this app is good for quickly looking up something on the go.Show lessPunter2015
It Thinks Like I Think
I love WorkFlowy. It organizes my entire work and personal life, and it thinks the way I think. Sharing outlines with other people is one of the easiest ways to keep them organized when we collaborate. And it forces them to think the way I think, so everyone wins.
I was in the middle of sending this as three-stars, because an update this morning caused me some problems, but mere hours later, while I was writing, it updated and was already fixed.
Five stars for user experience and maintenance.Show lessMumberbur
