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Then hit enter and type something else, like “Shopping List”. You’ll be provided with a blank page with one bullet point. (Forgive me for not being able to show you the Help button, but WorkFlowy is wider than my blog screen.) If you ever need to access either the video or the cheat sheet, it’s as near as clicking “Help”. When you’ve soaked it all in, hit the close box in the upper right corner, which points helpfully to the “Help” menu. But don’t worry - everything is so intuitive, you won’t really need the cheat sheet. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be presented with a pop-up screen that shows the same introductory video to which I linked above, and a cheat sheet of commands and shortcuts. Sign up by providing your email address and creating a password. But if third grade Social Studies outlines (Roman Number I, capital letter A, numeral 1, lowercase letter a) is a bit overambitious for your cognitive framework, WorkFlowy bridges the gap between complexity and chaos. While mind-mapping is great for visual people, many of us think in words and outlines, in bullet points and lists. It lets you do everything you could do with a pad of paper, with all the features that we’ve come to love from word processing programs, like the ability to cut and paste to rearrange text. I’ve found what is, to Paper Doll, the Holy Grail of To Do lists.
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Yet WorkFlowy does not offer so many options that you’d likely forget the features exist, and nothing requires reading a manual to understand (although there is a nifty video to help you get things started). It lets you see what you want, hide what you don’t want to see (until you want to see it again), move items as necessary and more. It lets you create lists, sub-lists and sub-sub-lists. Not just for what it does do, but for what it does not. Over the last few weeks, I’ve put WorkFlowy through its paces during one of my busiest times of the year, and it has not disappointed.
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Readers, you know I don’t generally gush, but (at the risk of sounding like a late-night infomercial) thirty minutes after starting to use WorkFlowy, I was tweeting its merits to fellow professional organizers and the public at large. However, none of my research, back then or in recent months, had yielded a To Do list site or app that had the the paper-y ease of use I was seeking. To me, paper-based really means list-based.
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I’ve researched all of these (and am excited to investigate further, as my colleague Emily Wilska, of San Francisco’s The Organized Life will be presenting two jam-packed sessions on these systems at this week’s annual conference of the National Association of Professional Organizers. (Forster’s the one who came up with the various iterations of the AutoFocus system that went viral a few years ago and the new SuperFocus system, which I’ve yet to research.) Among the paper-based time management systems, there’s even The Pomodoro Technique, which creates a time-limited system for achieving goals and has something (obliquely) to do with tomatoes. I’ve reviewed all my old Getting Things Done notes from my readings of David Allen, and I’ve followed the teachings of Mark Forster, mostly second-hand via the blog of fellow Professional Organizer, Janine Adams of Peace of Mind Organizing.
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Eventually, there will be a Paper Doll series on paper-based time management systems. You can’t stay awake to write a blog post if your milk is warm, right?)Īs I’ve been examining newer To Do sites, apps and programs, I’ve clarified my vision of what I hope to present. (Of course, in the case of Remember the Milk, that’s a good thing. As much as I enjoyed testing to provide readers with a sense of what nouveau To Do-ness they offered, each site left me cold. It’s been almost three years, but I’ve been in no rush to revamp and revise.
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I thought that was an awfully odd little name, and figured I’d pull up the site, give it a glance and then save it in the bookmark folder I’m using to collect sites to update the information I provided the last time I talked with you about To Do lists and sites to help others with their To Dos. Recently, a few social networking pals on Twitter and Facebook posted about a new list-related site called WorkFlowy.