My favorite feature of Workflowy is that it sends me a daily summary of whatâs changed in my Workflowy, i.e. sends me all new and changed lines in an email.
I would love to see Dynalist support this.
The reason I love this feature is that I use Workflowy (1) to figure out what tasks I need to get done, and (2) to let my assistant know what those tasks are. Every day, Workflowy automatically emails me any lines I add or change, which Gmail automatically forwards to my assistant. That way, my assistant is always apprised of any new tasks Iâve added list.
If youâre really asking about GTD apps then Nirvana does this (in account options you can choose on which days you want your daily plan to be sent to you), and I know about others too, but forgot the names. But those are apps specifically for time/project management, I never saw this in applications similar to WF/DL - but itâs definitely a nice feature.
For what itâs worth, I looked into trying to find other apps that do this, or even find a way to get Dropbox or Github to send me a daily list of changed lines⌠I didnât get very far, though Iâm sure itâs possible. But thatâs why I eventually settled on Workflowy.
But Workflowy doesnât support deadline dates like Dynalist doesâŚ
It got me curious why this feature is not very often seen in other productivity apps, given it has been proven useful to many. I guess many apps have an event log (like Dropbox) so they assume that if you donât need a daily summary email.
I like the daily e-mail summary idea as well. I use it on Workflowy with a filter in GMail to tag the incoming mails. That way if I search for something in GMail I automatically get all the Workflowy entries using the same keyword, even if they are completed.
Our company has recently started working with Dynalist. We use it mainly for a ToDo/Backlog way, where we all add in items and assign them to each other.
It would be great to have a feature where updates or specific tags can have the changes emailed. So items with @name which have been added, and which have been âcompletedâ, could be emailed daily/weekly.
To this day email searches surface those change log emails from the time I was using WorkFlowy, and it just makes for a very handy, more immediate way to find something back in time.
That is really cool thing that Workflowy has. To me, personally, daily updates are too much, Iâll prefer to choose the pace I want: daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly.
Main use cases I see for that:
Revise my own changes to be sure, there are no mistakes. Yes, I like to keep everything in perfect condition.
Revise changes that were done by others in shared docs (or items, when will be implemented). I most likely that will be first time I notice any changes by other, because manual tracking of Version History is very unlikely.
Be ready with all upcoming dates.
Hope this helps.
Ready to vote for this feature in Trello.
Erica,
Version history works well.
Would it be possible to create a notification bubble or format the text on lists that have changes, and let that formatting disappear once the user opens it?
This little act would inform the user changes were made, and if they are curious they can go to Version History to see the record.