That’s why I use WorkFlowy more and more as the central repository for my creative writing. Nothing! But thanks to WorkFlowy’s hierarchical, zoomable document structure, you get lots more. The content you enter into WorkFlowy can be exported as formatted text, plain text, or OPML, so whatever you put into WorkFlowy can be easily transferred to Word or OpenOffice Writer. WorkFlowy is a text editor with some basic formatting (bold, italics, underline) built in. And I can adjust it or change it outright, any time I want, as easily as dragging and dropping. I have over four hundred (and counting) individual items in my WorkFlowy, all organized in a hierarchical, tagged system that makes sense to me. One of the problems I always run into with more structured organizational systems is that none of them work exactly the way I want to work. That’s one of the best things about WorkFlowy: its simplicity and flexibility allow you to use it in a way that best suits you. WorkFlowy is the encrypted Omega-Level mutant test-tube offspring of a text editor, a to-do list, a notebook, and yes, an outliner and word processor. is that where they got the name.? From Simplicity… Everything and Anything
Viewing on a small screen? Click the image for a larger version.Īny item can be moved anywhere in the document, either up / down or indented / outdented.Īdditionally, WorkFlowy employs tags (#todo, for example) and asperands for example) to categorize items and notes, and has functionality to mark items as “completed” (and hide or display completed items at will).Įvery parent item can be collapsed to hide all its child items, and every item can be “zoomed in” on to be the only one on the screen.įinally, thanks to a variety of intuitive keyboard shortcuts, to use WorkFlowy all you have to do… is type. Notes are content associated with an individual item. These can be nested, which is why WorkFlowy most readily resembles an outliner. In fact, in just a bit I’ll show how I use it for outlining fiction.īut don’t sell WorkFlowy short - or limit its benefit to you - by thinking WorkFlowy is just, or even primarily, an outliner. And sure, you can create document outlines in WorkFlowy, and it’s really, really good at that. It might be tempting to call WorkFlowy an outliner (a text editor used to create documents with a hierarchical tree structure for planning / organizing) and leave it at that. Your multitudes! Organized however you’d like, and accessible on pretty much any device, anywhere.
I bet the fine folks at WorkFlowy spent a lot of time refining that description, for WorkFlowy is one of those deceptively simple tools that appears rather plain at first glance… but in fact, contains multitudes. WorkFlowy describes itself as “a zoomable document that provides unprecedented flexibility in organizing your ideas.”
Of all the tools in my virtual kit bag, few help me be healthy, productive, and creative as well, or as frequently, as WorkFlowy. The mission of Scribtotum is to share what I’m learning in my quest to live a healthy, productive, successful creative writing life.
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