any.do does not have lists of lists of lists of lists . . . . I use any.do, but sparingly. Mostly for shopping lists or short to-do lists.
I do a lot of project planning and design. It's hard for me to write this all out in paragraph form so I create lists with many sublists. Workflowy has a simple export feature to text. I give it to the PM and he can write functional specs from it or I give it to a dev to work off of.
I love Work Flowy and I'm glad to see offline available although I always thought it worked offline and just synced when reconnected. How did it behave before?
I would pay for a pro account if they had a better iOS experience. Right now their web app wrapper type app ain't cutting it, they need something native. That's pro-worthy.
We did this project in collaboration with Google, and they were great. We wouldn't have done it at all otherwise. But, I still do want to create a node-webkit app, because I think that's what users want, a normal app, not some weird hybrid thing.
Yeah, I looked at node-webkit as well. The reason I was thinking of going with Chrome was because it's easier to push updates and to receive payments instead of rolling my own. I went for PouchDB to sync my data which will probably give me a few issues with the Packaged Apps since it uses eval in some places but I'll deal with that later.
This was built as a Chrome Packaged App. There are some plusses and minuses with them. The fact that you have most of a desktop experience, with auto-updating, is really nice. The fact that there are some critical differences, that are confusing to the user. I wish Chrome wasn't trying to invent a new category of app :/
Workflowy is one of the most useful and interesting products created lately. I was honored to have had dinner with the founders a while back ago, and they are an awesome team and I really wish them the best.
I've found sometimes, especially when introducing Workflowy to non-English speakers, the UI is a bit hard to learn, but once I show them the basics they figure it out pretty quick. The daily email diff is also invaluable.
My tip to you guys: lower the number of free items per month to get more users to pay!
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For all those who don't know, workflowy is lists of lists of lists of lists. This is pretty much how I think.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.karelklima....
I do a lot of project planning and design. It's hard for me to write this all out in paragraph form so I create lists with many sublists. Workflowy has a simple export feature to text. I give it to the PM and he can write functional specs from it or I give it to a dev to work off of.
I would pay for a pro account if they had a better iOS experience. Right now their web app wrapper type app ain't cutting it, they need something native. That's pro-worthy.
The way to do a desktop app using web technologies that feels more "real" is with node-webkit: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
We did this project in collaboration with Google, and they were great. We wouldn't have done it at all otherwise. But, I still do want to create a node-webkit app, because I think that's what users want, a normal app, not some weird hybrid thing.
I've found sometimes, especially when introducing Workflowy to non-English speakers, the UI is a bit hard to learn, but once I show them the basics they figure it out pretty quick. The daily email diff is also invaluable.
My tip to you guys: lower the number of free items per month to get more users to pay!