Infinitely expandable, and collapsible, (my favorite feature), I’m going to show you the best way to organize your ideas.
Workflowy is my favorite bill to pay every year.
My ShowIt subscription came through this week for the year and I was like -_______-, but when I got Workflowy in January I was like “all my ideas have been secured.”
As an avid notetaker, Workflowy has allowed me to save physical cubic feet worth of notes I’ve taken over the year.
It all lives in one app.
Ideas come to me quickly. I need to capture them, or they will fly away. Workflowy allows me to capture an idea quickly and save it forever, but organize it later.
The very first bullet point I keep on the best bullet list ever, is this:
I picture it as the current of a river.
No matter your project types, you can make it a bullet to organize all your ideas for that project, under one bullet point.
One bullet that you can shrink or expand with one click.
A few hashtags that I use to organize my bullets across different categories help me find certain types of content.
For example, I write about blogging books as a path to get a little footprint going online. I like books. I read books, I write about books, I like talking to bookish people about book things. Heck, I’m even giving writing books a go!
is one of the ways I can search through my notes for book-related bullets across a variety of topics.
Workflowy is simple and loads fast. I can never catch my ideas fast enough in a more robust project management system like Asana or ClickUp. I need somewhere simple to capture my fleeting thoughts as simply as possible.
The Current 〰️ 〰️〰️ // 〰️ 〰️〰️ bullet, at the very top of my bullet list allows me to capture anything at all. Whether it’s a joke, or a story that came up. a quote or a nostalgic reference, I can capture any idea immediately.
I work with workflowy mostly on my computer because I do very little work from my phone. But I can very easily access my Current 〰️ 〰️〰️ // 〰️ 〰️〰️ bullet on workflowy, even on my phone.
Links are ugly. Hide them in the hierarchy so that you can look at something clean.
Bullet Points are one of the best ways to break up a big block of text. But in a sea full of bullet points?
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You might want something that stands out.
You can use emojis, shapes, or strings of characters to break up the visual landscape of your workflowy work space.
As a writer, one of my categories under projects is writing.
There are many writing projects inside this one bullet under the project section.
As a Shopify Store Owner, I also have a Shopify Project bullet.
My New Years Resolution is “More DIY” and that a cool new Project bullet I could create. Thinking I’ll paint something? Build something? I kind of need a strong moss pole for Monster A, but I don’t really trust those small ones with the pointed dowel. Feels like it needs to be stronger. More secure.
Anyway, the entrepreneurial urge to tell you about my houseplants is strong.
Houseplants is a perfect bullet. For care instructions. Transplanting date. Pest control. Fertilizing sched. Stuff like that.
In my Writing bullet, I have a blogging bullet, obviously.
I don’t always need a date with my bullet points, but it is very simple to add to any.
Workflowy has a great feature where you can use natural language to add dates. For example, today I hear my partner say something I want to revisit later. I wrote it down in my workflowy, where I keep all of my notes, whether they are personal or business, and I wrote “today”, no quotes. Workflowy hit me with a pop up that says I can hit tab if I want to add today’s date. I did. It did. I can also say “next tuesday”, tomorrow, or just type any date.
It’s a very useful feature to help remember dates with ideas.
Not all ideas are golden. When you’re done with your ideas, archive them.
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