While it might seem strange to say that a text-based tool can help you take notes more efficiently (especially when you’ll always be typing at the same rate), it’s because you can break down blocks into bullets, move sections around and make notes inside notes.Īs well as indented bullets and dragging text around, you can use tags to create a to-do list out of your notes. For people like me (messy handwriting, disorganized, thoroughly useless at taking notes), WorkFlowy resonates with my thought process, which is why I say that even if you’re usually poor at taking notes, it can help. How WorkFlowy helps you take better notesĪs Erica Heinz says, it feels like ‘the deep folds of your brain’. Share lists, list items, sublists, etc… Collaborate with others showing as much or as little of the list as you choose.The keyboard shortcuts turn you into some kind of note-taking samurai.It has breadcrumbs for jumping around quickly.Tag a list item with # to index it in search.You can create rough notes in one take, then zoom into each point to expand it.Why is it the best at what it does? There’s a few reasons.
WorkFlowy is… the most underwhelming app you’ll ever see.Īt first glance it seems like Microsoft Word stuck in bullet mode, but after a bit of learning you’ll see it’s (probably) the best outliner, the best to-do list and the best note-taking app you could imagine. Instead, now I use WorkFlowy to take and edit notes. With this method, I’d need to listen to the recording at least twice to get my notes. When I was done writing and listening, I’d usually be left with a big mess of text that needs organizing, which would take more time still to go through and fix. Lately, I’ve got instructions introducing me to new projects via video or voice recording, which I’d try to summarize in bullets, expand on and create to-do list items from the notes. They’re clunky and don’t work in harmony with my erratic train of thought at a meeting, lecture or presentation. Lots of text editors, like Word or Evernote, feel too ‘formal’ for proper note taking.
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