boards! (turn on, test, upvote/comment this beta feature)
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this is a post to show user's approval of the boards feature.
personally I'm already happy enough with the current implementation of boards. just can't wait for a boards hotkey, context menu, desktop app and mobile app appearance.
you're welcome to upvote if you also like boards, maybe devs won't ditch 'em and will finish bit sooner
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I just love the boards view and the embedded optionality!
I still mainly use the bullet view for 99.9% of WF, but I always wanted to have a view like that for presentations or for some other specific use cases.
I think different visualizations schemes in WF (mind map, table view etc) is a great step forward in the right direction and I am really thankful that the current roadmap has incorporated that!
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thank you - the beta version is VERY nice and I am going to begin using it for real!
It took me a minute to figure out the user interface (the mechanism for switching between bullet/board is in a different place depending on whether you are *in* the item or not). That adds a cognitive step (if I am outside the board, look left; if I am inside the board, look right).
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Thanks @rawybtz!
Column width adjustment is going to be implemented starting with search mode :-). While one would ordinarily zoom into a particular list/ card within a board to expand things... this is an issue in search mode... because zooming in takes you away from your primary intent... seeing a list of results.
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I went straight to check out boards as soon as I saw the feature had been implemented in beta. I used to use hackish add-ons to create columns for this purpose, and this will be much better.
(Testing on Ubuntu 18.04, on Firefox 72.0.2 and Chromium 80.0.3987.163.)
I can’t figure out how to add new columns from within Board view without using the outline on the left (which I almost never use). But I can learn to work around that.
ill absolutely use this!
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Hello everyone!
I really like the feature because it allows me to quickly switch the workflow in the following way:
- Use bullets when you want to put everything from your head to the white list of paper
- Use board when you want to see the week overview
It is very interesting experience and I am also waiting for the hotkeys.
Also want to add one more thing: @Frank, if you will introduce "Note Mode" I will through all my other apps for short notes, todo list, etc. By "Note Mode" I understand the simple list of paper where you can right a note, aka diary or something else.
Workflowy team, thanks again for your great product.
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Also want to show my appreciation for the recent development work on WF. Enjoying the board concept, there's a lot here that I can use.
I did want to mention a couple of ideas that may be helpful for others as well, now that I'm playing with it some:
(1) Board columns should persist when sorting by a tag. In the notes section of the parent node, I create a "menu" of tags to sort items in my board. So, imagine a Projects board with columns for Inbox, Started, Pending, Completed. I will have a list of tags at the top (since it's in the notes section of the parent Projects) and can easily click to sort out only the projects that fit the tag (work, personal, etc). However, at current, if I do not have a project under ever column that meets that tag, the column disappears completely. This keeps me from being able to drag to the column once a project moves stages. When in board view, the top level columns should somehow persist when you search for a tag, so the full functionality of the board is still available.
(2) Sorting by date (or other factors). I'm sure others have mentioned this already. If I could sort those projects mentioned above by date to reorder them, or by urgency (perhaps tags?), that would really add to the organizational power of the board feature. I don't want to lose the ability to manually reorder them, so I'm not suggesting it changes in a way that removes the ability to do so. But the option to quickly reorder by date that just shuffles them around and then they're free to move again would be swell. -
If I am not mistaken Keelan is talking about the filtering @Frank.
I just tried it out with a three-column board, and only one holds an item tagged with #example. Filter the view, and the other two columns do indeed disappear ( standard behaviour of WF in list view ) -- hence you can't drag the tagged item to the "next" stage ;-)
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Thanks @Stefano!
Indeed I understood the request... but mistakenly assumed it had been implemented... got my wires crossed. What it was is that I saw this as a backlogged item for boards to implement in the team's internal shared list, already having been logged without my intervention :-).
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