A recent Stuff article on a product called Workflowy caught my eye - It seems I'm not the only one disenchanted with all existing computer software that try to help organise my life.
The problem with all of them is that they are way less flexible and more cumbersome to use than a ballpoint and a blank page of A4 paper, my favourite thinking / organising / recording tool.
I've even gone to the lengths of creating my own mini-CMS (I call it Scrit) which allows me to record anything on my own website with a simple double-click on any page, and it is simple to create new pages and link to them, in a wiki-like fashion (Wiki is even easier, but at the cost of creating its own language). I have found it profoundly useful - but Workflowy could be even better.
The reason that Workflowy interested me so much is that I had come to the same conclusion as its creator - that life is really just a hierarchy of lists! Just a few minutes with Workflowy convinces me that this could indeed be the killer organiser app.
What do you think?
Have to say I love the slogan "workflowy organize your brain". Makes it sound like something I need.
ReplyDeleteIf only I could have an app to actually organize my brain.