Workflowy Reviews

Summary: I love it - I can’t recommend it highly enough. All my work is really well organised now. So easy to use.

Positive: So easy to use- so intuitive.
I can make notes for all aspects of my life in one place and it all makes sense and is easy to navigate.

Negative: There’s nothing I don’t like about it - it’s revolutionised my studies.

Summary: For me, the by-far better user interface in an outliner is Bike, but Bike is macOS only and single-user only. I use Bike for my own writing, but I switch to Workflowy for collaborative outlining.

Positive: I write in outlines, so I needed Workflowy.
Also, I value sharing the doc, including with co-authors in China, where Google Docs is blocked.
I like being able to include images.
I like Dropbox backups.
I like mirrors.

Negative: No customisable keyboard shortcuts.
The text jumps around illogically when deleting items.

Summary: I really like how simple this app is. Sure, you can't do much organizing with it, but it's good for quickly jotting information down while on the go. I see it as something where temporary information goes, everything that needs to be transferred somewhere else but I can't access in the moment. I wish it had more themes, but it looks nice and clean as is.

Positive: You can jot down notes quickly with some organization level to it. You can have nested bullet points, collapsible text, some minor formatting, and multiple lists. Connecting information to dates can be done, but you have to turn that on in your settings. There is a dark mode in the paid version. You can strike through notes to show they've been addressed, but keep them there if you still need to record the information somewhere else before deleting them.

Negative: It's really, really simple. You won't be doing any complex organization in this and if you don't like plain white or black, it could be hard on the eyes. It pretty much only serves as a scratchpad and not much else.

Summary: It's very useful and I'd probably keep using it for half the cost. The price might have been easier to swallow if the company hadn't worked so hard to hide it. I was especially annoyed that there was no indication that my collaborator would have to also pay until after I'd already paid. I strongly suspect there are other good alternatives out there, possibly even free ones, and I will be looking for them and hopefully switching to one soon.

Positive: The software is good and fairly flexible, able to be used for a ton of different applications like lists, design, data storage, and more. Work transitions well between multiple devices and interfaces.
I like how easy it is to compartmentalize various aspects of your work and share some areas but not others.

Negative: The pricing is extremely hidden. As near as I can tell, you can't find out how much it costs until you do the free trial first. Then, if you pay for a month they don't tell you that your collaborators have to pay as well to work on the document you already paid for. It's also a bit expensive for what it is, which is probably why they're not upfront about the pricing.
The controls can take a while to get used to and some of the interface isn't intuitive. You may have to look up some tutorials to do what you want.
Despite many features like lists, kanban boards, tags, and more, there doesn't appear to be any way to insert a table into your data. This feels like a major oversight.