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Workflowy is a web-based task management app.

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WorkFlowy is a digital productivity tool designed to help individuals and teams organize, plan, and manage tasks and ideas. It utilizes a simple, yet powerful, interface that relies on an infinitely zoomable document system, allowing users to create nested lists that can be expanded or collapsed as needed. This flexibility makes it ideal for a variety of applications, from taking notes to project planning. WorkFlowy is available on web and mobile platforms, and it supports collaboration, allowing team members to share lists and work together in real-time. The tool also offers features such as tagging, search functionality, and offline access to enhance user productivity and efficiency.

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Fractal boards let you nest as much information as you want in a kanban board.

Use the @ to assign tasks to other team members.

Workflowy's nesting makes it easy to take notes and create outlines.

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Gaurav S.

Instructional design assistant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/10/2019

"One of simple and awesome tool to track your daily tasks progress"

5/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

I love its simplicity. You can enumerate your daily tasks and cross those once they are complete Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

They should provide more bullet points options for the basic plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Workflowy:

Try it if you are any other tool for daily task tracking. You will stick to it for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking daily tasks progress, prioritizing work. As it is so simple to track, I love the tool, it's very productive in comparison to other similar tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/26/2019

"Effective Way to Organize Your Thoughts"

4/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

Workflowy is simple and efficient. You can effectively organize and label meeting notes, brainstorm sessions, or research projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

It is a more rigid system than it should be. There is no way to embed links, and the sharing options aren't that useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Workflowy:

Use the free version for a while before considering an upgrade. It can be a little rigid, and the inability to stylize text can be frustrating. If it proves useful, then upgrade! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to house all of our notes in one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ali V.

Front Desk Supervisor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/15/2019

"An over-priced, but simple and easy-to-use productivity application"

4/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

It is simple! It has a very minimalist interface which makes it easy to use. You can just write about anything and then organise your ideas into a list with bullet points. You cannot change the font size, but you can choose from a group of fonts. You can also italicise, bolden, or underline a bullet point. You can also make nested lists that are easy to structure. You can even drag items up or down a list. You can also select multiple items at a time and perform a bulk action on them. Items are also very searchable. You can use hashtags to label items too. If you click a bullet point, a menu pops up that allows you to tag an item as complete, add a note to it, duplicate it, export it, or delete it. You can also point the mouse cursor on top of or before a bullet point--where the plus/minus sign appears--to expand or collapse a list. It also allows to share a list for collaborating on it with your colleagues. When a list grows too big, you can hide or archive 'completed' lists. These hidden/archived lists can be made visible again very easily--again, by one click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

Color formatting is not available. You cannot change the font size. Its IOS app is very buggy--they released it less than a year ago. My colleagues who use the Android app don't seem to be experiencing as many crashes and bugs as I do. Could be that its IOS app is much newer than its Android, which has been around for a few years.

If you use it for free, you can enter only one hundred bullet points. They have only one paid option in it fifty dollars per year! Fifty dollars to create lists and bullet points. Even though we are using the paid version, they have not been helpful with fixing our problems with the IOS apps. It continues to crash or not update the changes made on the IOS app. And the back-up feature is only available for Dropbox, not Google Drive--we use Google Drive at my workplace, not Dropbox.

Finally, you cannot resize the document window. This means that with huge lists you have to scrolling down or up for a while to get to the bullet point you want! Huge lists can easily become overwhelming. Resizing the document window, color formatting, pack-up to Google Drive, and changing font size are some of the features they need to add to be able to compete with similar web-based application softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Workflowy:

We did some research and found out that there are cheaper similar products out there on the market. If WorkFlowy fixes its IOS app bugs, lowers the price, and adds a few more useful features, I would highly recommend it. For now, I would recommend researching the market and purchasing a product from a competing company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organising almost anything in our department. From the new file and folder structure of our Google Team Drive, to our collaborative to-do list, to our meeting agendas, and so on.

Although it is fully text-based, it is very simple to use. Our office coordinator, administrative clerks, and project manager assistants have found it extremely useful. In addition to task-lists, I personally use it to streamline the flow of ideas the moment something comes to my mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samantha S.

Nutrition Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/10/2019

"Workflowy helps keep my brain organized"

4/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

I like the way it allows you to create thought clouds, and different "brain trees" if you will, easily and can be uploaded and backed up to the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

Occasionally I have trouble toggling back and forth between the different clouds, but overall it's good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Workflowy:

Workflowy is really great about updating their systems. They recently when through a big upgrade and upgraded all of their software, to be more user friendly. They also listen to feedback from customers which is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love using workflowy for brainstorming sessions. It allows you to brain dump very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/10/2019

"WorkFlowy Makes my Work Much Easier! "

5/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

i really like that I can create simple yet infinite lists. Also that I am able to share with my co-workers. Saves us a lot of time while being more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

The only two things that II dislike are that it seems a bit cluttered and the limitations for customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We work with different people and organizations for example homeless individuals, churches, other shelters, and different programs in the city. So we are constantly having to create different lists for example weekly church schedules, food lists, shelter lists. Then we have to share these with all other departments so this software makes that so much easier for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/19/2019

"What do I need this for???"

0/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

The dragging of bullets. I also like the bright colors the tools allow you to use. In the case of a shopping list, I already received this from a couple of stores I shopped at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

Everything else. I am a list maker from way back. I list my clothing. I list what I eat. I list what I need to buy. You get the idea. This app came across as a flowery version of a pen and paper. If I want to make my list pretty, I just use alternative colors of ink. I am sure I don't spend 5.00 a month to accomplish the same thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Photography

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/22/2019

"WorkFlowy is a great tool for almost anyone"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

WorkFlowy is very simple to use. It's organization is very unique and bare bones, which is great for users such as myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

Although I enjoy the organizational system of WorkFlowy, I feel like some settings that offer other organizational settings would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Workflowy:

WorkFlowy is very unique, but google drive or simply just the classic notebook and pen could work as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workflowy solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mainly use WorkFlowy as a virtual notebook in which I will organize all of my notes and ideas. It is great for staying organized when talking to clients in a meeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/9/2019

"Powerful tool for project organization "

4/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

The tutorials make it easy to get started, and it helps a lot with keeping track of documents and progress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

I would like to have the document potentially shareable and editable by multiple users, and give them access to the files on the same platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/5/2019

"Best life organizing tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Workflowy?

It's an infinite bullet list of lists within lists. For a list maker like me, this is a perfect tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workflowy?

because the scope of information you can store is basically infinite, it takes some getting used to navigating between lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.