There is one app I continually find myself recommending for a variety of reasons. I find it to be the best way to organize thoughts.
The workflowy app is the best way I know how to organize thoughts with ADHD. Something I struggle with.
Step 1: Get Workflowy
Step 2: Create a Current List
Step 3: Organize Thoughts Periodically
All at once –>> Collapse (cmnd + up arrow)
With individual intention –>> Collapse each hierarchical bullet one by one. Slower, but you touch base with your thoughts again.
Move To is very helpful.
Click the 3 dots that appear next to the arrow when you hover.
Select Move To
Type the beginning of the bullet name.
Hit Enter to send the. bullet away from the temporary Current 〰️ 〰️〰️ // 〰️ 〰️〰️ space to its new home.
I organize when my anxiety is up. One thing I love about organizing my thoughts with workflowy is that it helps to ease my mind. Sorting items is a soothing way to chill out.
Step 4: Create Bullets when you need them
Some bullets you’ll want to keep in their original form, and also move to somewhere new. For example. I have entered my desk notes to workflowy and some of those include accounting notes. for exammple, a Chart of accounts.
I like to keep these notes in two places. First, I want the note to live under the bullet point of where the note originated. Which is from a business class I took years ago. The second place is where I need them today, under the Admin project of my current small business.
I can duplicate, mirror, or backlink this note. In this case, I’m going to duplicate and move this bullet to where I need it, but backlinking could make sense also. I wouldn’t mirror in this case, because I want the original bullet to remain the same and the new bullet to change.
This blurb will be about mirrors in Workflowy.
It’s a good idea to use mirrors when you want to have the same bullet in two places without any differences. You want to edit from either location.
Mirrors are not always appropriate. When you want one note archived, the original, to remain in it’s original packaging so you can refer to how it used to be, you would not want to mirror.
This blurb will be about backlinks in Workflowy
You’ll want the magic of backlinks when you want to link one bullet to another, even if you move them around.
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