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Highly recommend Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/). Its core idea is just recursive lists. Everything is a list, and every bullet can be expanded to become a top-level list. I've found this to be the most natural way for me to organize information, and there is a satisfying symmetry to it.

The developers are also clearly careful when adding new features, since they always compose well with existing functionality and create a multiplier effect on productivity.



+1. I've been using it for the best part of a decade. I've tried other things but always come back to workflowy.

It was kinda stagnant for years, but in the past year or so there's been a lot of new features.

In think it's a YC company too, so the developers are probably here...


I suspect the new features starting to come into Workflowy last year is due to Roam Research which came out about then, and has largely been at best a slight improvement over Workflowy.

I do use Roam personally, but they were very hamfisted with their monetisation effort early on, which left a bad taste in my my mouth. If I were starting today, I would use Workflowy and be paying them instead. From what I can see, it is the more carefully built product.


Mirroring + templates is a gamechanger. Being able to create boards is also really nice; whoever realized that lists are isomorphic to boards is a genius. You can switch between the two seamlessly without ever being afraid of losing information or causing unintended side effects!

Just waiting for it to support reminders, at which point I feel like I could use it for everything.


Been using it for about a decade too. Syntax highlighting, quick capture and mobile reminders are still on my wishlist, but so far it's still better than all other competitors for me.




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