Calendar, Agenda, Dates... Something please ! :)
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In-app calendar / dates
Reminders
Integration with Google Calendar
Sorting by dates
Checking past tasks...
Many more!
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Official comment
We implemented a first version of this that allows you to add and search for dates in Workflowy. There is still a lot to do to make this better, and we need to do it. But at least we've done something.
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I tagged on to this feature request but I want to be clear about what I'm advocating, because I'm not generally in favor of integrations (or anything complicated).
I think it would be great to have the option to choose a date for a node. With the press of a hotkey or the click of a tiny icon, a simple date chooser would pop up. No start date, due date, or reminders -- just let us decide what we want the date to mean, with searchable single dates and ranges.
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I am a new Workflowy user and have been using the tool for about a month. I have used virtually every other major task manager available on Windows, Mac and Web. Generally, I have stuck with a tool for a year or two and then moved on to the next best thing. While I initially thought I really needed reminders or due dates, I've found that for those tasks that really have a hard deadline I just tag with @due, followed by the hard due date.
Every day, before moving to @today, I search for @due and glance through the list. If the list becomes too long, I can always add the date to the search, e.g. @due 5/18/18 and only those things due today appear.
This seems easier than the convoluted workarounds that I see in use by others. I'm trying to keep workflowy as simple as possible as I've been there on the very complex setups I've used in OmniFocus and other applications, and I'm just ready for simple right now. J
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A native date/calendar system would be ideal. But I think this needs to accompanied with a robust API. Would love to see it work by itself and have notifications in the mobile app. On the flip side, I would like to see integration with an API for this. So those that want to can have IFTTT and Google calendar integration, but not be the core function of a date/calendar system.
My current work around on iPhone is to have WorkFlowy in safari saved as a bookmark on the home screen. That way I just open it, go to the task and have Siri make a reminder for me on a specific date and time.
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I'm using desktop WF and moving between it and Omnifocus. There is a minimum feature set which would persuade me to migrate my OF data to WF, including
- dates
- reminders
- flat search display
- recurring tasks
there are numerous features in OmniFocus which are very handy, but there is a tradeoff in not being able to use WorkFlowy for both content and action items, and workarounds in WorkFlowy would then become more attractive.
I realise the browser version of WF offers much more functionality (thanks Frank D), but I use WF offline also.
So.... yes please, more explicit todo organiser features please!
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I'd argue against dates and calendar integrations. Workflowy is great as a general writing-thinking-outlining tool, and I think these should be developed before. I don't want to say that these features should never be implemented, but I think things like tag list, better navigation should come first.
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Dates and Reminders are a "we just need to do it" in the 2018 roadmap. When is this actually going to happen?
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Please no!
This is not what Workflowy is about.
Sure use some tag syntax for dates - and when API is available use that to get tags/ item and put it in some other Calendar/Reminder app
Why on earth would you want to try and replicate all the features of a Calendar/Reminder/Date picker in workflowy? You’d be out of your mind. Insane.
Stick to lists manipulation features. Keep it as simple as possible. It works great!
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Good idea, John.
Allow me to add one step of complication :)
If you search by @due 5/18/18, you're actually searching on two different terms, so any instances of "5/18/18" that are not tagged with @due will come up as well.
For me, dates are more than when things are due, so I use the term 'date.' I can create a tag like this:
'#date' and that will bring up all instances of use. I can then get granular by adding this:
#date2018-5-18
The hyphens won't break the tag (slashes or periods do). The benefit of this is now I can filter by everything this year by searching: #date2018, or everything this month by searching: #date2018-5
Now to add just one more step of complication:
I can use two different text expander shortcuts. One that will always write the tag for today's date, and one that will start the tag but not finish it: '#date2018-' so that I can use it as a future date picker without having to type out the same string of characters every time.
Thanks for helping me to find a (mostly) uncomplicated solution!
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+1 for dates that are searchable, but somehow simple to do.
I'm also trying to come up with a good way to handle recurring tasks, haven't figured one out yet.
I *love* the simplicity of workflowy. I've been wanting a to-do list where I can indent to as many levels as I want, expand and collapse, not a lot of graphics around it so that many things on my list can be viewed at once. Workflowy is exactly what I've been looking for, and it is so streamlined and clever. Hoping dates and recurring tasks can be implemented in the same simple and clever way.
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I dont see this as a big issue. I use the general tag system of yearmonthweek so... @1810wk1 @1810wk2 etc. then flag 4-5 things each Monday as #priority. I also don't then need to type out a year in advance, just as I go.
But I use Outlook for email and find that (or Google etc) is a much better place for day specific, recurring tasks and then simply link to the WF Note. Those already have a rich set of features, reminders etc built in. Adding that level of complexity into Workflowy begins to degrade the core appeal which is the Simplicity.
I can appreciate having a single place to organize your tasks and activities but I suspect working with email is ALREADY something we all do several times a day anyway so...
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Respectfully, I disagree—I think the analogy with Blackberry's keyboard is misplaced.
A physical keyboard is either there or not there, and all users have to experience one or the other. By contrast, dates in Workflowy would be optional; those who prefer the existing simplicity could simply not use that feature, while those who would love to be able to attach a date to an item and sort by date, or at least just see an item's timestamp, could do so.
So I think it's more of a question of priorities. For me, it would be extremely useful to have a rich semantics for dates and times that's integrated with the rest of Workflowy's features, and perhaps integrated with external services like Google calendar, etc.
For the time being, I'm just prepending items with the date (e.g., “2019-01-25 Do this thing”). The tag system can also be used as a workaround (“#2019-01-25 Now it's clickable”). But sorting by date is still missing.
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Thanks, Christopher. I too have items that use the date alone as I start most of my list items with the creation date, i.e. 5/11/18: However, I haven't seen an occasion when a search for @due 5/11/18 brings up anything but those items that have the tag followed by the date specified. I have many other list items with 5/11/18 without @due and they are not displayed.
If I just search for the date, I will receive those items with the date alone and those with @due, but that doesn't interfere in my workflow. Now I'm puzzled as to why this works for me. J
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For me the essential of date implementation is that I can write it on Android keyboard (using US gboard). "^" character is not common to have and looking for it in special symbols is significant productivity killer. I have abandoned checkvist for this.
! % are examples what would work for me.
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I'm starting to fear that the answer is never.
Workflowy got where it is because of a group of passionate folks, and I think what made those folks passionate is the utter simplicity of the product.
I think the developers are walking a super difficult line between trying to appeal to larger, feature-wanting audience without alienating the folks that got them here.
I can't help wonder if it's like Blackberry in the late 2000s: the vocal minority who truly loved the product hated the thought of ditching the keyboard, so the company held onto it way too long. They kept their loving fans but failed to make something that appealed to the mass market.
I think unless and until Workflowy becomes willing to alienate their biggest fans in the pursuit of growing the company, feature releases will be few and far between.
I'm not in a position to criticize them. It's their product.
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