Discreetly Manage Unlimited Writing Notes with Workflowy
As a guerrilla writer, I had a problem.
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As a guerrilla writer, I had a problem storing, sorting, and accessing the extensive notes for my various novels. If, without warning, inspiration struck, I found myself reaching for spare bits of paper and shoving them into my pockets until I could put them in a little box at home.
I still have my little box -- but now I also have Workflowy.
Accessible on my phone and the web, Workflowy allows me to create bulleted lists that may expand infinitely inward. I can plot bits of text within scenes within chapters within sections within "Plot" within the novel within "Writing Notes" within however many more modifiers I need, and I can view a single bullet at a time or all the bullets at once.
It's entirely searchable, entirely taggable, and entirely discreet -- especially if you also use it to track your professional to-dos, just a click away.
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Excellent! Thanks for that. May the radar never track you.
I'm glad someone is getting their work out there online. I'm just not sure why I would want to replace my other note taking software with this.
As with anything, the benefit of Workflowy depends entirely on your needs (and in your case, what the other note software is already providing). For me, Workflowy just jives with how my brain works. It allows me to burrow deeper and deeper and add sub-points/notes to everything. I have trouble with Evernote, for example, because I'm always trying to create notebooks inside my notebooks (before remembering that I can't).
And I'd say I haven't necessarily "replaced" any of my previous note-taking systems. I still scribble things on paper when necessary; I still go on tangents in Google Drive; I still use Excel to keep track of timelines and ages and things. Workflowy has been effective for plotting more than anything else -- and since I can tag the characters' names, it's made it incredibly easy to look at every single thing I've decided about a character all at the same time, if needed.