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WORKFLOWY VS SOFTWARE

Despite all kinds of productivity and task management apps out there, I noticed that most of the executives I know end up just writing everything as a list in some note. That makes outliners perfect for task lists. Modern outliners provide additional features, such as allowing you to zoom on specific items and add tagging and filtering to enable a second dynamic hierarchy in addition to the core static one. You can also expand and collapse certain nodes along with their children to focus on what you need at the moment. I noticed that any meeting notes I write in them immediately become better as I a) ensure that any bullet item covers one thought or an action item b) related notes are attached together.īut outlining isn’t just about writing in bullet points, you could do that in a Google Doc. Outliners can digest both notes and tasks at the same time.

Real life is often too messy to accurately separate quick notes from tasks.

And if you were to look at people’s outlines – they are dramatically different. Ordinary task managers impose a specific workflow: some have projects, some have areas, some have priority tags.

Outliners are great for task management because they let you build what you need at any particular moment.

Outliners are great for note-taking because they incentivize you to structure your notes.

Paradoxically, they’re also extremely flexible. Outliners impose a very strict hierarchical structure that shapes everything you write.

Examples include apps like emacs org-mode, Workflowy, Dynalist, OmniOutliner, Little Outliner, and Roam Research. Certain apps add their own flare to this workflow but similar at their core. Your notes can be very detailed, yet organized for a casual reader to get a quick overview. In outliners the bullet item is the atomic unit of information. Yes, it’s also an outliner.Īn outliner is a text editor that organizes information in a hierarchy, allowing users to control the level of detail and to reorganize according to the structure (source).

WORKFLOWY VS SOFTWARE

Outliners are a very curious category of software products that have been mostly used by a small number of geeks but recently captured more attention with the launch of Roam Research.

Most people don’t know what outliners actually are.

There are two extremely tragic aspects of the reactions: Recently John Gruber asked on Twitter if anyone is aware of a good native outliner app for Apple platforms. About Me Subscribe y_molodtsov The Evolution of Outliners COO and Partner MA Family where we run communications for tech startups and VC firms.