Organize with WorkFlowy

For the past year or so I've been keeping track of all the great lesson ideas I come across in a GoogleDoc.  A 20 page, terribly hard to wade through, mishmash of ideas with absolutely no order whatsoever.  And I was happy.  It might take me a while to find something, but I knew it was in there, and I would locate it eventually.  Then a colleague happened to mention a great site called WorkFlowy.  Marketed mainly as a To-Do list, I initially wrote WorkFlowy off (I usually just use PostIts).  But as I struggled to find what I was looking for in my GoogleDoc of death, it struck me that WorkFlowy might be the perfect place to save ideas - not just things to accomplish.

The nice thing about WorkFlowy is that it allows you to create collapsible lists.  So instead of going through 20 pages of notes, I can condense into categories and collapse lists.  After copying my GoogleDoc into WorkFlowy and working with it for an hour or two yesterday, I now have this:

It's super easy to move entries around, place them somewhere else in the heirarchy, or link them to other entries.  WorkFlowy has a super simple system of Tags and Filters that easily allow you to categorize your entries.  Also, and this is a whole text search so you can move to the entry you're looking for super fast.  You can easily share entries, and assign work with the @name tag.

I like this program because it's simple.  There's no learning curve, just start a list and figure things out as you go.  There aren't a lot of bells and whistles with WorkFlowy, but that's okay.  It does what I want it to and it's extrememly intuitive.  I do find myself wishing that I also had a calendar that I could pull up next to my worklist to copy entries to, but I think that I'm just wishing WorkFlowy could morph into the perfect lesson planner.  Hmmm, I wonder if WorkFlowy takes requests...