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Haha. I'm a WorkFlowy founder. A few people have thought this because it is so positive, but it really isn't. The author just contacted me on Twitter saying, "I'm gonna write a story about you, cause I love your product" and then called and did an interview. I guess he really just likes it.


I am a free user of WorkFlowy and I absolutely love it for the work I do on it. I don't use it for the list or a to-do, I use it to take and organize notes for the certification I intend to complete. Although I know that I can use the bullets in MS Word or anywhere but I love how smooth and time-saving it is in Workflowy.


As a pro WorkFlowy user, I understand where he is coming from. I've often wondered what you could do improve the product but I haven't been able to think of anything (yet).


Ha, thanks (I work on it). Both for the comment and for upgrading to pro. There's still like a bajillion things we can do to improve it. A few big features, but a bajillion smaller usability improvements that add up to a really big deal.


My first development job was on MORE, shortly after Dave Winer sold it to Symantec, and your product comes as close as anything I've seen to the feel of that product. As I'm sure you know, it had a fanatical following.

Even though I probably won't be able to use it for my day job, I'll buy a license and toast your future development!


:) Thanks so much. Yeah, it's really interesting that after the golden era of outliners, none of them still exist in a big way.


Could you add some simple formatting (markdown)?


I wish I could use it but the company I work for doesn't like us putting our data in external providers' servers. You should make a downloadable version that uses the browser's own backing store, or something. I'd pay for it! (I know this is probably not a high priority request.)


Just curious- was Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus in any way an influence on WorkFlowy?


I ask because the propositions in the Tractatus are organized exactly like lists are in WorkFlowy.




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