If I had several good points in mind with a post, I’d include them in the Workflowy bullets. Something about Bullets keeps my ideas workable. ![]() Because of the embedded bullet format, I stuck to structure. I started using Workflowy last year to jot down occasional blog post ideas that I didn’t have room to explore fully. It should be called “bullety” and not “workflowy.” A left-hand sidebar provides a notebook-style hierarchy if you’re into it, or you can just stick to the main document of bullets. The app creates an outline with limited hierarchy for those who either really get off on business writing or know that content ideas without structure are no ideas at all. It’s just bullets - a blank document in which bullets embed in more bullets, and each bullet can nest in its own document of bullets, more indefinitely than infinitely, until you can’t bullet anymore. Workflowy is not a blank page, and it’s not a traditional note-taking app. If you want to hire me to record Andy Rooney-style gripes about how predictive text does not work (therefore how come we put so much faith in predictive analytics), I'm available. When I am out of fresh ideas or my only thoughts are Andy Rooney–style gripes, I turn to my Workflowy and revisit some of my better ideas. It's my back pocket notebook, the one with the good stuff for days when my head is clear. I need one place to keep all the decent ideas that have survived several thought cycles, the ideas that stick with me long enough to turn into something meatier. ![]() Traditional notebooks don't help me much when I'm in an ideation or research phase (like I just migrated back to this month). The best ones introduce new ways of organizing information while keeping it simple: a blank page should always be an option. Note-taking apps have had a moment for the past couple of years, with tools like Notion, Craft and Roam taking over the establishment players of Evernote, OneNote, TextEdit and Keep. 69: "Foundations for a content-driven data strategy," alongside a review of cookie management tool Iubenda. This essay originally was published on January 14, 2021, with the email subject line CT No.
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