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An Indispensable part of my workflow
WorkFlowy is a program I have left and returned to a couple of times. Now, again, I am using the app daily. That says I can’t replace the app though I have been enticed with more complex or structured to do apps as enough for my work. WorkFlowy’s ease of use, availability across devices, flexible tags, and speed captures ideas and details in a way that fills a creative and thought gap that the other more structured organizational apps do not. When I return to WorkFlowy after trying other apps says that I can’t replace it with fancier or more expensive options. It is working well. Now I have leaned into WorkFlowy strengths and doing that has helped me to settle on the other pieces I need for structure more easily and to stop hopping around. The recent update has been excellent. I like the program and the developers’ responsiveness. Great job. Easy to recommend.Show lessJDB4
Using Workflowy daily for years
Like so many others, I have tried all the different productivity apps, but I always come back to Workflowy. It is powerful in its simplicity. Over the years I have cobbled together my own system loosely based on the bullet journal approach that Amir Abdol described. For me, Workflowy has become a project management tool, a to do list manager, a diary/journal and a general note taking tool all in one. And all of that backed up daily as a single, future-proof text file on Dropbox. Close to perfection. Thanks Jesse and team!Show lessHPET26
My life says thank you
Love the update! Though I have not thoroughly gobbled up the changes yet- but happy to see such pleasing interface pop. Where there were once bare bones are slightly larger fonts of bare bony bones.
It gets a little tricky when I made new entries today: This iphone 7 9 11 or whatever triple X has trouble zooming. It could be the WorkFlowy app refuses to zoom out since the update. Either way, the lack of pinching zoom is rough. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. Everything else is yay for this artist who mostly needs quick, immediate outline writing while the thought is hot hot hot. Bombastic WorkFlowy! Ok, huge fan despite my nonsense. Thank you!Show lessDemonTears
Need to spend more time on their app
It’s a great service online but on the phone it’s terrible with no improvements in sight:
1) It’s not a native app. It’s a webpage app and responds like one. Some apps manage to hide it by doing little tricks but this app really needs to be native to perform at least like every other basic text editor
2) Still no iPhoneX support. As of months ago every other app on my phone has support for the iPhoneX but WorkFlowy still has stupid black bars cutting off a good quarter of the screen
3) it’s a webpage in as a fake app. Yes I’m repeating #1 but this is a big problem. It performs like you’re typing into a webpage with all the lag you’d get from a non-native appShow lessJeevan-2K
It's a glorified bookmark
I'm not sure what others see in this. It's a bookmark to their site - and it looks like it offers offline support. Ok cool ... offline support … pretty much the only reason to use this.
I don't see a reason to rate it higher than this because you can't initiate sharing from the app for a list - if you can their support hasn't gotten back to me on it when I asked them last week.
The bar that is on the top of the screen also interrupts your view when you scroll. It resets itself once you are done scrolling, but it's an annoyance I'd rather not see.
Room for improvement on the app, regardless of how nice the actual service is.
Ideas for your improvements?
1> No shake to undo - maybe add a confirmation, in addition to that particular capability...
2> Sharing options via the app - not having it is limiting since you have to use the web app to perform those operations..
3> Fix the top banner
Odd as it sounds, it seems like everyone writing these 5 star reviews are impeding on the progress of making the iOS app any better than its current state. I don't understand how people are giving 5-star ratings to an app that's essentially an offline-capable bookmark and nothing more.
You devs got creative with making a nice web app; please get creative with making a better iOS app.Show lessorgitnized
Platform is 5 stars. App execution is 4.5
I have never used a productivity app longer than WorkFlowy. I used to change apps all the time, as my interest in one waned, is find the next shiny thing. But I've used WorkFlowy for years now, and it has been my one single source of truth for over a year. It's amazing. The iPhone app has some limited functionality, but it is still mostly what I need (hence the high but not perfect rating). I strongly recommend trying WorkFlowy. Start with the web app and then get the mobile app if you like it.Show lessG2459ht
The good the bad and the ugly
I've been using Workflowy for about 5 years and I pay the subscription fee every year. I use this app as a first step in the writing process and not for tasks.
Functionally, it's great. Simple and fast to capture ideas. You can easily move sections around (on web platform) and the export function is decent. It's cross platform since it resides on web.
The bad: As a paying customer I expected more attention to improving the features and customizations. Why do you not support markup? Why can't I selectively change font color, size or imbed images? Why can't I change background color?
The ugly: This app has been left untouched for a long, long while. What the heck?! One annoying part of the functionality is the floating bar that always pops up over the words I'm trying to type. It would be nice to 3D touch on a bullet point and have to option to indent or de indent or move it etc. The app lacks severely the same functionality as the web app.
At $50 bucks a year, and no sign of development, im kinda wondering if it's worth it. Hopefully we start seeing some action from the developer. I know from reading the reviews that some of us like to actually support the developer of good apps with our cash, but we also want to see continuous improvement and functionality.Show lessCoolcakephoto
It's what it needs to be
I am a subscriber and active user of the full version for Windows. So far I have found the iOS version to be a good balance between usability and familiarity.
I can, in a comfortable and natural way, access the common features I need to use. While a lot of users feel that it is missing some of the power user features of the desktop version, I prefer that over the somewhat awkward Rube Goldberg approach taken by HandyFlowy, the iOS clone that has the power-features, but in a package with a ton of hieroglyphic buttons.
With iOS, you don't have all the same controls that you have in the Windows environment. I'm certainly open to a full feared version in iOS, but perfect one that preserves the elegant simplicity where the functionality isn't in your face, but rather hidden in the keyboard commands.Show less5BPM
Pure gold
This tool is pure genius! It's the best thing I found to dump all ideas into "paper", for organizing, planning, writing etc.
True, iOS app may not have all features that web app has (functionality you get when you go to their website on a computer), but it's getting there, and it's one of the most useful / productive tools I've ran into in my search, try's my dozens of approaches and apps.
1 hint: go to their blog & look @ the ideas there for using this app. They also have a big community of users who post ideas and "shared lists". Enjoy!Show lessTomeqq
My first negative review after 4+ years of iPad apps
Rarely have I been as disappointed with an app as I am with this counter productive and ill-designed waste of one's productive efforts.
This stems less from the overall quality of other free apps and more from the confusingly absent ability to simply cut and paste ones work (let alone export into another word document or app) after completing it on the WorkFlowy iPad app.
This is my first experience with an app actually hindering my ability to use it productively. In brief: one cannot export nor select and copy text after working on an outline or project. It's worth noting that although the app was free, I downloaded three other similar apps at the same time that while rated lower, still possessed the very basic feature of allowing the user to transport his/her work to another app, document, or outline.Show lessDrJosephDD
