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WorkFlowy – free minimalist list webapp
First, let me describe the two main problems I have with todo/note taking software I’ve tried previously. Secondly I’ll show how WorkFlowy alleviates these problems.
TODO: fix these problems!
There have certainly been other TODO list applications that I have used in the past, but they usually suffer from at least one of the following problems:
- A
- A.1
- A.2
- A.2.i
- A.2.ii
- A.2.iii
WorkFlowy
With respect to #1, WorkFlowy is as barebones as you can get. There are no labels, tags, colors, due dates, etc. All you do is enter plain text. If you need all those bells and whistles, then WorkFlowy might not be for you. But if all you want is an online repository for your random thoughts, I have not found anything better.
Workflow is also excellent at managing deeply hierarchical information, as I described in number two. It supports the standard tab/shift+tab combo to indent/unindent items.

Indent text with the tab key
Here you see all the top level notes that I have.

After the chores node has been expanded
This is an extremely effective UI technique, as it allows you to create arbitrarily complex and nested hierarchies but focus on only a small piece of it at any one time. This allows you to switch between nested and essentially flat views of your data at will, simply by zooming into the relevant portion of the tree and by collapsing the children nodes whose detail you don’t care about.
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