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I use WorkFlowy for packing lists and trip itineraries. It's fast and has infinite list nesting, item completion, # tags and @ tags, powerful search and collaborative sharing. It's free too.
I had trouble with this, so I use Workflowy. I started with the outline described here and then tweaked things to my liking. Doing things this way makes it easier to plan meals, shop, follow recipes, and keep track of recipe tweaks. It takes some effort upfront to add in meals that you regularly make, but I just started writing down meals as I went and soon I had a database of meals I could pick. I found that if I asked myself, "What do you want to eat this week?" I had no goddamn idea. But if I had a list of meals I could make, choosing was much simpler. Check it out.
Every day write ten "what if's". Do not give a lot of thought to them, just write them off the top of your head.
- What if a maniac became the president?
- What if a duck billed platypus was the answer to all of our problems?
- What if a man and woman swapped bodies, except for the penis and vagina?
- What if the music literally stopped?
- What if the rain started to produce music as it fell?
- etc.
Keep all these "what-if's" in a file. I use org-mode so I can move my ideas up and down easily. Every day I review the first ten ideas and move the ideas I really like up, and then ideas that don't stick get sent to the bottom of the file. I add notes to any idea that I really like.
Your next script may not have anything to do with these ideas, but it really helps to get the creative juices flowing so you look for good stories.
Example of org-mode for outlines. Workflowy is another good tool for outlines.
> I’m confident that if I admitted that I no longer believed, divorce would be the result.
I'm so sorry.
If you wouldn't feel comfortable having something announced in sacrament meeting, then don't tell the bishop. Actually it would be easier to keep it a secret by slipping it into the announcements, than it would after injecting it into the gossip mill via the local divinely picked gossip king. Seriously the only secrets bishops keep are the LDS Church's.
I don't think you can keep up the deception indefinitely. You need to prepare for the inevitable challenge.
Have documentation without bullshit.
Just write your thought down and detail later. Make it fast and painless, in and out.
If you are a designer have a personal journal. What I use is workflowy (50 referrals,they should give me a medal) and just write whatever pops in my head and its easy to go into more detail and organize later.
As for what to write in it. EVERYTHING. Projects, concepts, mechanics, dreams, worlds, stories, game analysis, experimental findings from prototypes, other tests, bugs, debugging, methodologies, combat logs,
simulations, player feedback. Everything related to games and game design.
Everything that can be written, write.
You have no idea how great a boost in your creativity is to have everything written down.
Check the AH to see what you can afford. Desert Fires and Mossy Pools are 25-30s and Nui's Novas and Kraken's Mights are 80-90s on my server and I make enough gold to use them off cooldown when I want to. Large health cooldown in 90 seconds, large mana is 45s, small pots are both 9 seconds.
Spellbooks are insane because you can get them under 1.5g and Unstoppable force gives you 86 more DPS to ranged (even though the tooltip doesn't say so), magic, and meelee. Brick wall decreases damage taken. These are very important.
Drinks increase your max mana and health. Tangy Soda and Tangy Liquor are the highest rank of each and go for about 80s on my server. Again you can look at lower ranks if you can't afford these.
Ancient Library Relics and Kingdom's heart are magical and physical defense pots. They can be expensive at around 4g. There are three ranks of defense pots.
Food increases one stat and rank 4s (ribs) cost about 1.5g. Savory = Str, Roast = Int, Smoked = Spirit, Kebab = Agi.
There are a bunch more like runes, regen foods, elixirs, candies, tonics, etc. Google found me this: https://workflowy.com/s/3brKyUHZRQ#
Nothing special really, I use workflowy to manage my tasks, ideas and so on. I haven't found a need for anything more complicated. Personally, I think the simpler the tool, the more likely you are to continue to use it and keep it up-to-date.
The free version is limited to a certain number of transactions per month (250, which is pretty damn high). But you can use this referral link if you want double that.
There's workflowy. I've never used it myself, but it seems like a great tool.
My team usually have discussions on the design for the game, then save the whole conversation log as well as a summary. We also take notes for planned features/mechanics, and make design documents outlining the entire game, usually as powerpoints. We store all this information in our dropbox so we can easily access and add to it.
For the more immediate plans I used to use a whiteboard, but found that I liked using a little pocket notebook better. This way I can carry it around and take notes whenever I'm inspired. I use the whiteboard/notebook for outlining the technical details of how I plan to implement specific features in the near future, as well as anything else that pops into my head that I want to not forget.
I've also been experiencing a lot of issues recently and began transitioning to Apple Notes. I'm also looking into the potential of Workflowy (a simple bullet point note-taking software which I love using).
I read the Foundation series and enjoyed it a lot. That said, I find Asimov's sexism quite off-putting. Maybe just the sexism of the time?
Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Hanish' series is excellent. I've read some of them multiple times. The Left Hand of Darkness for example, is spectacular.
I've been reading a lot of Iain M. Banks' 'Culture' novels. They are long, like, really long. Often contain some horribly traumatic events, which I could do without. But the world-building is amazing. The Culture is a post-scarcity anarchic society. Their ships are sentient, and choose their own often silly names. Novels in this series I can recommend (in the order i read them): State of the Art, Excession, Matter, Use of Weapons
I've been building a list of movies, TV, books etc that i like. with tags. click on the dot for "books".
I keep a tab open all the time and write any time I have a thought.
It's also much easier to detail things as you want and reorganize stuff. It's very low maintenance.
Yeah that's just one kind. Google "trigger lists" and you find a bunch. I've been using one for over a decade, I can't find which one it was. I use <strong>Workflowy</strong> to keep it available from wherever I am. It's a fantastic (and free) application. I recommend putting your Trigger List on there.
I find Workflowy to be helpful for organizing my goals and breaking them down. It doesn't look like much at first, but I'd recommend the OP giving it a try. It's an infinite, hierarchical to-do list.
Thanks for being receptive! Know that your feelings and frustration are valid here. Having ADHD does not make indefinite financial support grow on trees. It may just be that you and your daughter have a common enemy, rather than starting to feel like one anothers enemies here.
If it helps, I keep a list of my favorite articles about ADHD, with a particular focus on ADHD in women and in "high performing" individuals, two groups where it's often missed. I wonder if any of these would resonate with her. In any case, best of luck.
FOUND IT - the link itself must've changed I guess. Anyways, here's to some solid studying:
>How do you categorize them?
Workflowy is my go to app. It really helps me organize all my thoughts in an easy way.
>Why did you start this hobby?
I have always been interested in the little interesting bits about the world. I just never decided to write them down until like two years ago.
>Are they organised by country or by interestingness?
Both. I have like 12,000 unsorted facts I have to go through still but everything is organized by country. Within each country I have them organized by what might be actually interesting to other people and what is kind of meh.
>Where do you get your facts from?
I get them from everywhere. I usually spend a couple of hours reading or listening to podcasts or watching videos everyday and just collecting all the interesting things I find.
>Is this something you do everyday?
Yeah, and it takes up tons of my time. I take meticulous records of the amount of time it takes me to do things and I've spent over 150,000 minutes on this hobby in the past year.
>How many do you think you'll do before you finish?
I honestly have no idea. My personal goal is to get 100 really great facts about every country. But there are some countries where that would be incredibly hard. For instance, I have between 200-400 facts for the bigger countries like France and Germany but less than 10 for the smaller ones like Sao Tome and Principe and St Vincent.
I subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds. I read a lot of news articles from the BBC and al-Jazeera and Reuters and the New York Times. I read travel books. I just finished reading the whole lonely planet book about Afghanistan the other day.
Stephen King says to be a decent writer you need to read/write 4-6 hours a day. I usually get 3-5 hours a day before my brain stops working.
I also use Workflowy to document everything.
Time to recommend Workflowy and get more for my bazzilion free space.
I tend to be messy. Whenever I have a thought i just make another bullet point and then detail as necessary.
I always have it on standby and write the thoughts in about 5 seconds and move on.
Sometimes I do some revising and move things about and detail some more. That's it.
To me it has become painless and actually fun. No contriving myself with bullshit while I'm writing my thoughts.
If you want a slice on how it looks here is a link. It's messy and not really understandable by anyone other then me. But its your brain that wrote it and its context. It sure beats memory.
What kind of productivity tools do y'all use? I am in love love with Workflowy. Its basically an online infinite bulleted list. And its great for data capture.
On any given day I'm at one of six different computers, and having workflowy set up as a default tab on Firefox allows me to research something at my desk in my office, hit the lab, bring up a pdf link to a paper, prep stuff, hit a different lab for synthesis, and check prep parameters by my phone. There are probably eighty five different other ways of doing stuff like this, but it works really well for me.
Other than that Dropbox saved my life when I was finishing up my grad work.
Hope everyone's Friday and weekend will kick ass!
I use a combination of tools:
Lights: (link)
It's a technique/spreadsheet template developed by Sebastian Marshall. Basically you create a list of things you want to do everyday and flag it with done/not-done.
It probably sound very simplistic but it gives daily life a game like quality. Every "done" is a little win and every week you can design a new level and try to beat your past self.
Workflowy: (link)
A simple online tool that allows you to create lists. Again very simple but the flexibility makes it easy to fit it inside your own way of work.
I have different lists for Daily Todos, Task Backlog, Sideprojects, Gift ideas etc
Other:
I use the standard Apple calendar for events I'm attending and the Reminders app for errands.
For financial planning I use a simple Excel spreadsheet. I'm a college student so that is enough for me.
Here you go.
Specialize! You have no idea how important knowing about the games in your intended genre is. Learn from the past! Knowing your genre is the start!
Have a Game Design Journal, write your thoughts down easy and fast. Don't bother with game design documents this is something personal for you. You can use Workflowy or other note keeping app and always have it open. If you don't write your thoughts down you might lose them forever!
In addition find about games that have:
Good Economics: Patrician 3, The Guild, Cultures/Northland, X3.
Good Strategic AI Battles and Unit Design: Starsector, Total War.
Good Combat: Dark Souls, Skyrim with mods, Mount and Blade.
Good Faction Design: Dominions, Sovereignty crown of kings, HoMM.
Note this examples are just what I have come up with at the top of my head, you should actively seek more.(In fact other users could suggest more)
This is important to get a feel for what the AI can do and how to setup AI correctly. RTS design is very important in many types of games.
I use workflowy and have about 1200 "nodes" (not all distinct ideas obviously) in my research ideas subtree. It's indispensable for me, and could only be improved by allowing LaTeX formatting.
Not anywhere close imo. It's ATH was 9USD, like last year, and gas fees are typically about 0.01-0.02USD. If you would like to check it out, here is a partial list here. I say partial because it hasn't been updated in a bit. For auto compounding check out Aliens Farm and SpaceFarm, they both have some interesting stuff.
Ok I've made a first take at a nested hierarchical list. This is meant to help me sort/arrange/choose cards to meet my design goals.
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Here's a link to the Non-Editable version. And here's an Editable version - this community is smart and has a lot more knowledge than I do. If you see a way it could be better, please improve it!
Because there's so much overlap, I decided to break it down into 3 large sorting / tagging categories:
Function (What it does): Provides resources, interaction, changes the game.
Synergies (What it cares about): GY Matters, Spells matter, etc.
Type (What it is): Card type, Effect type (Duration, symmetry, etc), Archetype type (Aggro, Control, Midrange, etc)
I think OP is asking something like workflowy.com and others products in the market.
It is a very useful feature to have.
Personally, I returned to Bear from Workflowy because Markdown seems to be not in their intentions.
But from what is know from Panda, the Bear team is focusing on headers only, like with Gmail and Xcode or Microsoft Visual Code.
I can be wrong but haven't seen any commitment from Bear about folding lists, but would ask u/tedwardbear to confirm.
I have recently switched to using WorkFlowy: https://workflowy.com/
It’s extremely simple, and thus take some discipline, but that’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Also helps that it has iPad, iPhone and Desktop apps and syncs and is freemium.
feel free to collect a list here until you find a better place
https://workflowy.com/s/covidfree_houston/4ky3P7ePcBcqqJ0K
I was considering setting up /r/houstononline for the transition to being at home specifically for houston.
eta: we went ahead and made the sub.
This is so true!
A strong article brief can turn a good writer into a great one.
Usually I include instructions explaining who will be reading the article, content guidelines and the language style.
Something else I've learned is that on the first few rounds, you have to be willing to read and edit the content (usually best in Google Docs). If your writer knows you won't make any changes, they'll naturally slack off. Plus revisions help writers understand your style of writing.
Also, if you're not already using it then I'd recommend checking out WorkFlowy.
This will help you structure a detailed list of contents and topics to cover, and you can include headlines for the H2, H3, H4 sections etc.
If you need an article brief template, PM me :)
Thought I'd reply to you with the same comment as above.
Workflowy is my go to app for note-taking. It really helps me organize all my thoughts in an easy way.
I'm using workflowy, which is perfect for this. It's really minimalistic, nests and sorts tasks better than other apps. Keyboard shortcuts are good too.
They charge if you go more than 500 items a month, so I just use it to store my daily routines checklists. If you use my referral link, you get an extra 250 free monthly items: https://workflowy.com/invite/fc6cd0b.lnx
Great news. We created a fix for that. If you join our WorkFlowy Alpha Group (which we will be promoting on our blog and here in the subreddit very soon) you can test it out: https://workflowy.com/features/alpha
Also hello to this subreddit! This is Lee, a new WorkFlowy employee who is very excited to be helping out!
Late to the party.
I'm compiling notes and stuff about the characters I play, strider included, in an organized workflowy.
https://workflowy.com/s/Csjb.0QkSlooy4b
It's still pretty early but my goal is to have a really comprehensive and informative end result.
I use Workflowy everyday to keep track of my lists. Really helps me get things organized.
That's a referral link by the way. Not to help me, but you instead. You get extra space if you get the free version with that. I already subscribe to the paid service and get unlimited space so it doesn't really benefit me.
> Scrivener
I'm not saying it's as feature rich as Scrivener, but have you looked at Workflowy? I find it to be the perfect outliner / organizer and it's dead simple to use. I imagine you could use it and Google Docs together in a pretty potent combination.
cc: /u/hey0o0o
Nice! That kind of organization and problem solving would be a balm to my soul. I'll give it a shot myself.
Ever heard of workflowy? It's a pc/mobile platform that's perfect for those kind of frameworks. I use it all the time to organize my thoughts, plans, and lists. https://workflowy.com/
Just write it and get it out of your system.
Inspiration is precious which is why you want to write as fast and painlessly as possible. Which is why you need a journal. Once you have nothing more to write you can get back to work.
But you should have a work ethic, procrastination is not the same thing as inspiration.
I personally use workflowy as a journal. As its easy to just write and then detail and sort later.
Yesterday Did all my goals, was really sucsessful day. Did everything and more!
Researching some self help articals about planning and live's vision-philosophy. Really need to focus on that. So for my new online journaling practise I think I am going to use Workflowy insted of Trello, because it gets really cluttered after a while.
Today
- ~~morning routine (30 min workout, meditation, organizing, breakfast)~~ success
- work planning 6 pomodoro
- learning habits
- drawing habits
- tour around a town with friend
Seconded. GTD took a while to become second nature, but it's absolutely worth it if you want to make sure you never drop the ball. I practice it via Gmail, Google Calendar and Workflowy.
I understand the dilemma, but often feel like it directly translates to conflicting order-of-operations. I have urgent vs important tasks. I need to fill out healthcare enrollment forms, but I also need to get work done.
I also struggle with juggling all the little tasks that pile up. Oh, remember to get a haircut tonight, and grab groceries, and balance the budget, and don't forget to call mom later to ask about christmas details, and that email that just came in ...
... I've used a couple technology tools to offload my brain, and then practice monotasking. Doing 1 thing at a time, instead of trying to do 10. You have to trust your tools though, it won't work unless you do:
iOS (maybe android?) Alarmed -- timed/location reminders and all the settings you could wish for.
http://Brain.fm -- when I need to sit and program something, the "intense" focus session is like a brain masseuse.
http://workflowy.com (ref) Is a super list maker. Give yourself 10 minutes a day to just off-load everything in your brain, it doesn't matter if it's work-home-personal-etc, get it out of your brain.
Organize and prioritize it. Eisenhower matrix is helpful/technical (Urgent Vs. Important).
Clearly define 'action items' something that you can act on. "Work out" is super-vague, and ADHD brain will weasel out either by calling it vague, or postponing it for later. Set an alarm to complete an action. "Walk 15 minutes at 6pm", "25 push ups at 7pm"
Start over every day. ADHD requires novelty, requires new, requires success. Every day means a new todo list. Copy your old list, and scratch off items as you move it into a new one. The old list becomes void and empty (and your brain won't linger), and the new list becomes interesting and new.
Lastly, always start the morning with protein. 20g minimum. It'll be an anchor that'll keep your head tethered and give you a starting good momentum.
Hey guys so I've been running the timeline, keeping track of everything that's happened since the beginning of the plot on Thursday morning. I'm working on making it so you guys can see the list/timeline I've been building without the permission to edit it (sorry) but this thread is where you all get to share your favorite moments and what you consider significant/not crazy enough to be part of the timeline. Lots of plotpoints I automatically consider canon as they happen, but I tend to miss a lot as a moderator and a character on Blue Team (so Red and Neutral parties, PLEASE submit important points from your sides).
I'll try not to leave out anything too awesome and important.
EDIT: Here's a sample of what we're working towards. FYI, when it's time to post the whole thing, the link will lead to a page with every day of every episode, and you can hide/open whichever days/episodes you want. It'll all be on one page, under one link.
Workflowy is pretty simple, but might work for you. I can't remember if it's free, but I believe there is a free or trial version.
It creates nested lists, so you'd start with millennium as your first tier (1000, 2000, 3000), or century (1800, 1900, 2000), and then expand it down getting more and more granular as you go.
Kind of like this:
- 1800
- 1800...1809
- 1801
- January
- 01
- The dragon "T'lc'on'y'mae" is finally slain.
+ The wedding of Bryn Tardis and Tionemit Haskel.
...
+ 1802
...
+ 1810...1819
+ 1820...1829
...
+ 1900
+ 2000
Or you could do it by region, character, etc. Lots of flexibility in how you implement the tree structure.
If it's just a plain tree structure you want to create you could use workflowy or moo.do. Both allow the creation of hierarchical text lists with various features for entries like due dates/reminders (moo.do), tags(both) and notes(workflowy).
If you're looking for a mindmapper, I personally love xmind for windows.
not OP, but I'm also interested and maybe some of my experiences can help as well. I just downloaded 30/30 which seems like a fantastic app to supplement your workroutine and to individualize your pomodoros, I just tried it and it does most of what I want it to do. I also heavily use www.workflowy.com to organize my medium and long-term goals and do a task of daily stuff.
It's also super motivating to keep all your done tasks in a list on workflowy to keep yourself motivated long-term, here's a look at part of my list showing some how I keep some of my hobbyist coder stuff organized and organize my chores as well as part of my (really really long) "Done" list, which I keep for motivations sake. the @ and # at the bottom are tags which are useful to link the lists not only laterally but also horizontally across different sublists.
And if you want to sign up with my referral link you get more items per month (500 instead of 250). https://workflowy.com/invite/1f535e4d.emlx
I have enough referrals already, but it makes it immediately a bit more useable because I usually use up about 200-300 items per month and 250 might be a bit too little for some people. So if you don't use my referral that's totally cool, I just wanted to offer it because it gives otehrs a bit more items to start with.
A long time ago, before the interwebs, I used handwritten lists with ABC organization. I'd make list of everything I wanted to do in the near future, and then prioritize them by A (must be done tomorrow), B (must be done soon), and C (optional). As time passed, Bs moved up to A priority, C up to B (or broken into tasks), etc.
I tried GTD using iCal for a while, found it lacking for me personally. I liked the tactile experience and this was still before 24/7 connectivity and access from phones etc. So I used the 43 folder system. It was clunky, because I still found it easier to record and track birthdays and appointments via computer.
Now I use WorkFlowy. It's still not perfect, but it's working for now.
As I mentioned on several other conversation threads here over the past few months, I would recommend Workflowy as an alternative note-taking/project-managing software to Evernote and other more complicated larger systems out there.
It is a simple, but very efficient platform operating with a bullet point structure, works seamlessly on both Android and Apple devices and it’s fast loading. If your mind likes to compartmentalise notes digitally this way, this might make your life easier. It takes some time and adjusting to and transition from Evernote (which I loved but experiencing the same tiring issues like many of us complain about here daily). At this stage in my life and work, speed of access across all devices, faultless syncing and efficiency wins for me. Workflowy ticks these boxes.
I hope this helps.
I would like to recommend to you Workflowy as an alternative note-taking/project-managing software to Evernote and other more complication larger systems out there. It is a simple, but very efficient platform operating with a bullet point structure, work on both android, PC and Apple seamlessly and it’s fast loading. If your mind likes to compartmentalise notes digitally this way, this might make your life easier. It takes some time and adjusting to transition from Evernote (which I love but experiencing the same issues like many of us complain about daily). At this stage in my life and work, speed of access across all devices, faultless syncing and efficiency wins for me. Workflowy ticks these boxes.
Try Tezos, there is quite a large section of it dedicated to NFTs here. Also, the gas costs overall are insanely cheap in comparison to ETH, even at Layer 2
Plenty Defi, and Wrap protocol both have some farms. Also there are quite a few other farm listed here which I have not really had a chance to get into yet. Am also waiting for Aliens.farm to get their vaults in order to set up their autocompunding feature before I get into them
I also like Tezos blockchain for its low fees and low energy usage overall. Is an LPoS system so you can stake to a delegate and collect returns, there are a number of different projects you can see in the works as seen here. There are a few good farms giving good yield right now, with some more getting online soon. Best part of all its going for about 6 USD rn, and each approval costs about 0.01 USD, so far think I've used maybe 0.1Tezos for fees total.
Best of all imo, Coinbase has/had one of their educational Earn programs with Tezos awhile back, so I spent none of my own capital to get started there. So give it a shot if you can
Similar to dynalist is WorkFlowy which I find more elegant to use and with cool features like mirroring and kanban bird view. The free account does limit the amount of entries per month. Here’s a referral link that will get you more. https://workflowy.com/invite/1db17411.lnx
WorkFlowy is great and getting better with mirroring and back linking. I’ve used it for years.
Here’s a referral link if interested. I’ve maxed-out any benefit I would gain from you using it, but you should still get the extra 250 bullets per month I think.
Fellow chromebook user reporting in; also ex Zim. I feel you.
I can suggest:
- <strong>WORKFLOWY</strong>; which has "mirrors" (transclusion) and backlinks (in beta). Also a board view (really, columns) which are nest-able. It was superfast on a CB, but mirrors seem to slow it down. Also, the way they're testing backlinks doesn't quite fit how my mind works, so I'm waiting for development to slow before I jump back in.
- <strong>NIMBUS</strong>; which feels to me like a "notion-lite". It runs a lot faster than notion, has as-you-type "@" backlinking, plus the ability to create a new note from the "@" prompt on the fly. I've been able to replicate the sort of workflow I had on Zim with this, and it has a really useful Android app.
Good luck!
(ps - they both use that light ice blue colour that's so in right now...)
It's looks simple (and it is) but it is honestly brilliant. It also has both boards and bullet points depending on what you want to use, and a great tagging system for filtering stuff.
Put everything in there under different headers, and then use hash tags on everything to help you get better overviews. At the top of your workflowy put in all your tags with a description of each one (honestly, you'll forget what #appfiveopenlunch means in a few weeks).
Put absoluteley everything in there, no matter how crazy it is. Just make sure you have good headers and good hashtags. At the end of the month, go back and revisit each point and decide what still sounds good - delete everything that doesn't.
16 years now. Started with MindGenius and normal mindmap programs now just web base workflowy.com
Every few years they grow to big and I delete the lot. So many ways to type the shit in that will never get done.
It's not exactly a task app, but Workflowy can be used as one - it will let you break tasks down as you've described, expand/collapse or zoom in to focus on a specific level (these are its key features). There's a demo on the site.
Here's my list of Resources for (Ex-)Mormon Couples. I hope you both like it.
Click/tap on the #StarHere tag. In my opinion the crown jewel is the audio collection. You should also click on the #ComingOut tag.
Let me know if you see a possible improvement. I haven't gotten a lot of feedback so far.
>DIY - Add Time Control and Wifi Monitoring to Siemens Versicharge EVSE
For some reason my high level hardware and code detail post isn't showing up. Must be getting caught in some kind of filter. Here is a link to the text with all of the details and links to the code: https://workflowy.com/s/diy-add-time-control/wN1JpWBdphLysqrF
You're talking about two different tools there. I used Amazon Storywriter numerous times to write shorts when I was at someone else's computer. I even imported a feature script to work on. I appreciate its simplicity and its ability to export an fdx into my Final Draft or Highland 2 to finish at home.
The usefulness of Story Builder will be based on how much outlining you do and how you want your ideas presented and laid out. I used it to try and outline a script once but I don't like that type of beats board interface, period. I use [workflowy](https://workflowy.com/) for my outlining. It's free to use for a bunch of notes and elegant in its simplicity.
Workflowy might be a good tool for this. It’s the opposite of most systems, in that it doesn’t impose any particular system or structure on you. Think of it as an outliner, like a bullet list in MS Word, on steroids. You can zoom into bullets, tag items, and search/filter, and when you combine those, it’s really powerful.
Each client becomes a bullet/sub-list, and then you have a list of tasks for that client, or a project is just a sub-list under that client. You can tag tasks and then search for tags which makes it really simple to cut through the forrest and identify specifically what you need to work on now.
During a review you can tag stuff in whatever way fits your work. I tag stuff by day, by top priority for each client, by amount of time required, and so forth.
Then I can zoom in to narrow focus to a client or group of clients, then search for items tagged “thu call” for phone calls you need to make on Thursday, or “fri top” for all top priorities for al clients to be worked on Friday, or if I only have a short time before a meeting I can quickly find tasks that will take 15 minutes or less.
It’s a bit minimalist, not for everyone or every type of work, but it can be really effective if it fits your brain.
I store mine on Process Street (not necessarily b/c it's good, but mostly b/c it's the first thing I found hehe)
And here are my checklists:
Morning
- Stretches Completed
- House Plant Checked
- Timer Started
- Email Checked
- Daily Questions Checked (to refresh them in my mind)
- Tasks Checked
- Timer Stopped
Night
- Room Cleaned (stuff picked up)
- Timer Started
- Gratitude Filled Out
- Daily Questions Filled Out (Scrum 1, 3, 5, 8, or 13 obvs)
- ToDo List Filled In (in my bujo)
- Completed Tasks Removed (from workflowy)
- Inbox Sorted (GTD-esc not email)
- Each Active Project Individually Opened and Next Actions Flagged (workflowy again)
- Weather for Tomorrow Checked (I can't do anything when it's hot lol)
- Next Actions for Tomorrow Chosen and Written Down
- Timer Stopped
Try workflowy. Very flexible. Changes on one device seen instantaneously on another. Can share part or all of the list. PM me if I can help with how to conceptually apply it to your needs. Works on Mac, PC, tablets, phones and web.
I really wanted to read this, but I found the sentences nearly impenetrable. Eventually I copied the whole thing into Workflowy and structured it that way:
Here are all of my reviews/checklists (though I prefer the term "Check in").
Morning Check In: (~5 min)
- Stretches Completed
- Plants Watered
- Timer Started
- Email Checked
- Daily Questions Checked (these are the Triggers active questions and I like to remind myself in the morning)
- Daily Tasks Checked (so I know what's coming up for the day)
- Timer Stopped
Nightly Check In: (5-10 min)
- Room Cleaned
- Timer Started
- Gratitude Filled Out
- Daily Questions Filled Out
- Completed Tasks Removed (I use workflowy for tasks)
- Inbox Sorted (tasks inbox not email)
- Each Active Project Individually Opened & Next Actions Flagged
- Quick Actions Taking <= 2 Min Completed (newly added tasks that just take a minute - I believe this is GTD)
- Next Actions Chosen & Written Down (transfer to bullet journal)
- Timer Stopped
Weekly Check In: (~15 min)
- Weekly Spread Foundation Completed (for bullet journal)
- Weekly Callendar Filled In (this is another part of my bullet journal, lets me easily see apointments and such)
- Toggl Hours Checked
- Daily Questions File Examined (so I can make changes/review)
- Weekly Focus Written (I find writing one daily question down in my bullet journal to work on that week helps me improve more rapidly than focusing on all of them)
I also have Monthly Waypoints and Seasonal Reviews but they're mostly just asking myself questions like "how did we do this month?" and "what would have helped us do better?" and aren't very interesting.
I use Workflowy. It has similar bullet points and much easier to manipulate, move things around or detail later.
(Although you would be limited by the monthly limit, if you want you can give me a shared link and I can try porting your entire wikia there, maybe it works??)
What I do in workflowy is just write ideas down so that I never forget them, a good trick in mind is to add details, examples and definitions to help you remember after you revisit them.
When working on a game project and things stagnate I usually just start a new page while leaving the old as is. It's great to start "fresh" and will help you understand what is really important about your project while taking a different perspective. Think of it as a mutated version of the game.
It works because when you start out your understanding and assumptions are murky compared to later and they will limit you in hidden ways the later development, if you start fresh you will have much more knowledge to work with and you are going to write the important parts first.
You can get part of the way there using the "OR" search operator:
Books OR American OR "Author 1"
Regarding the feature request, I understand its appeal for some, but I'd bet it would be annoying to others. In addition to OR, a space in search is AND. Perhaps a 3rd search operator could be invented? Maybe?
Books / American / "Author 1"
Here's mine: https://workflowy.com/s/C9at.VgB43H8TId
It's a daily list template, grouped by week, for all 365 days of 2018.
I use a tag called "#thisweek" that I update each week, to drill into this week more easily throughout the day.
This is an unfortunate limitation of the mobile apps which are need of attention... rumor is they will be getting it sooner than later :)
Here are 2 options: * Install the HandyFlowy app which has a proper delete button. * Before HandyFlowy, I used to tag the bullet with '#d' and then complete it. I always have completed hidden, so it disappears. Then on the desktop I star this search and use it to delete the items later.
Awesome, thanks! This is what I was thinking. Or if you (or /u/workflowypal) want to make a new thread that is the official list of things you want to work on and we can vote, feel free. And, is there a alpha reddit sub, or you mean just the alpha page?
As far as my $0.02, * First thing I think of using the current app is when you're scrolling down a long list and some bullets are really long (have a lot of text), I inadvertently bring up the keyboard to edit a long bullet since I have to tap on it twice to scroll past it. Minor thing, but that's literally the first thing I think of when I think of using the mobile app. * Tag autocomplete would be awesome * The expand/collapse buttons are pretty tiny, and, again, sometimes difficult to tap on long bullets.
> Personally I'm a big advocate for using developer wikis instead of a traditional design docs because of the way you can just cross reference and organize information better than a 100 page PDF. That might be overkill depending on the size of your mod though.
Dammit why do I keep having to recommend workflowy. I already have 111 referrals, I am like a walking advertisement.
Its even easier to organize then a wiki. You can keep a tab open and add your thoughts on fast and detail and organize later.
For game designers a journal is the most important things to have.
Write everything down, your thoughts, your ideas, document what works and especially what doesn't.
It's important to be fast and flexible with it and not be boggled down in anything.
I recommend something like workflowy because its easy to keep a tab open, write your thoughts fast and detail and organize later.
Charts, spreadsheets, drawings and so on are fine to add but they are a pain to set up immediately. Text is your biggest friend here. You don't want to miss your inspiration and you always want to note concepts you find on the internet like in articles or videos.
Outside of game design, obviously you should use information you find to organize just like you use it for game design. You should already be doing this for game design so there is no additional cost.
Found it: Workflowy. Also OmniOutliner looks similar. Also Outlinely.
I was just writing a comment about workflowy, as : /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels asked for systems & tools.
I replaced many parts of my GTD system (the 'Inbox' and 'Ideas before they are Projects' parts) with WorkFlowy. It's super simple... Collapsible bulleted lists... it's basically just a huge map of my mind.
It has apps for many devices, including iOS, but is also just a web-app through a browser, so works with any device that has a browser.
Also: Happy cake day!
I recommend Journals instead of GDD. Things like Workflowy.
You want to write as fast as possible and always keep things on hand.
Everything that is not your thought and impedes you is wasted time.
As for your plan, its not so much backwards as it is necessary to survive as an Indie.
What I would recommend is to do some programming livestreams when you are learning programming. It does not have to be about your game ideas, just simple challenges you try to test yourself.
Also I hope you know about Handmade Hero.
Also in addendum to your YouTube stuff, join game development forums and be active.
Things like /r/gamedev, /r/devblog, TIGSource, rpgcodex. Find whatever community for your niche.
Also from year 1 you have to start looking for the project you should tackle.
For TV I use SickBeard and CouchPotato for movies. I have a Plex install to make it all look pretty and track watch status.
For music I generally rip albums and process my trance radioshows/livesets by hand. I use Snap2html to generate an nice little html file of my music folders which I can pass onto people when required. I have a batch file which updates the html files and runs everytime I boot my machine. I use workflowy to keep track of music I want.
For my optical media backups I use Virtual Volumes View.
Get a Journal. Your memory is shit and if you keep writing down your thoughts fast you will start to get lots thoughts popping up all the time.
I recommend Workflowy for this. It's super fast to write and you can always keep a tab open, it's easy to edit and go more in depth and restructure things.
Also you don't have to analyze things yourself, in fact you are going to do a poor job.
r/VideoGameAnalysis/ is absolutely great, r/gamedesign/ is sometimes good, specialized niches like r/roguelikes/ or r/MMORPG/ can have very interesting topics, as well as specialized forums like tigs or rpgcodex. Games with unique/niche gameplay tend to have very interesting discussions on forums: Crowfall and EQ:N before it has interesting discussions on economics and crafting, Mount and Blade, Darkest Dungeon, Crusader Kings,Dominions, X series probably likewise.
Let's Plays are your friend. What you are especially looking for is expert players that challenge the higher difficulty and explain well what is going on or those that make guides to games. In fact look for expert players wherever they are as they generally say interesting stuff even if its just comments.
I don't recommend to be all over the place like me. If you want action rpg combat go check MMOs with action combat, Dark Souls series, all type of MOBAs, true Rougelikes as well as go into the more tactical jrpg side.
Diablo I find tends to do a poor job outside of the loot treadmill and the ever scaling difficulty. You can get all you need by looking up some tutorials and checking the wiki. No need to waste your time. Always try to find the meat of the game.
Workflowy is a pretty nice list app.
It's got a simple and intuitive interface, allowing list items and sublists to be created, nested, collapsed, and shared easily, without trying to be more than it is (a list).
- Go to every class.
- Talk to people, especially people on your course (sometimes teachers too)
- Make a budget over your money, how much you can spend on everything.
- Write everything down. I use Workflowy, its basicly a bulletpoint sheed. (referral link for people who want to look into this)
- Join groups.
- DO YOUR HOMEWORK/preparations for your classes.
- Remember to eat in the morning.
- Join a gym.
- Don't go drinking every weekend. (Sometimes is fine)
Good Luck!
I use Workflowy.com.
Started about 6 years ago when I did a yearly to do list. Now I do monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily lists. It really just depends upon how productive I need to be. I'm very pragmatic, everything I do is typically solution to a problem, or that's how I think about it.
Things that might be one there are usually work related, but I will put personal thing on there if they need to: write this thing, send this notification to these people, extract this from that, and so on.
Abilities and Skills system
https://workflowy.com/#/ffd27334feb9?q=%23Abilities_and_Skills%2B
Splits Skills into things your roll on and special atributes/powers(will update as it is fleshed out info needed)
Templates are completely useless.
What you should always get as is the core idea and mechanics of the game not mindless checking boxes.
I recommend Workflowy(god I have so much referrals) as you can continuously refine and detail ideas.
I guess there is a few ways to analyze your game like the rusky design, the book of lenses as well as some other stuff but it depends on having the right tool for the job and is in no ways universal.
Instead of cutting ideas that don't work its better to understand why they don't work.
You can always understand why or why not a idea works so when you try things you will never lose information, you will always gain it.
This is one thing that some designers don't realize.
Nah... brute-force contra inimigos afinados precisamente para explorar as nossas fraquezas é uma estratégia suicida. Força de vontade funciona para quem apenas sofre de preguiça e/ou procrastinação moderada. Mas dado o ambiente que temos hoje, como descrevi acima, e quando se fala em procrastinadores crónicos, a estratégia mais racional é usar métodos específicos para reforçar a nossa força de vontade (tal como um lutador usa armaduras ou armas).
No caso da procrastinação, existem várias técnicas, baseadas no conhecimento de como o cérebro funciona e no aproveitamento de mecanismos que estão ao nosso dispor, como os hábitos. Para não fazer wall of text, deixo-te o link da recolha que fiz há uns tempos (notas hierárquicas, com fontes / links onde apropriado). Um dia talvez eu conclua essa pesquisa e escreva um livro :)
Como alguém que já investigou bastante sobre este tópico, fiquei surpreso com o artigo, que é bem fundamentado e evita a armchair psychology que é costume quando se lê sobre isto nos media. Para quem quiser explorar um pouco mais o tópico, um bom ponto de partida é o post "Why Procrastinators Procrastinate", do blog Wait But Why.
OOC (out of character): Welcome! Sorry I didn't approve you as a submitter immediately. If you wanna read up on all the crazy shit that's happened in the past two weeks, I manage a timeline of all the important events I know about. If you ever need to find this timeline again in the future, it's in the sidebar.
Also nice to have another female character! However beware, many male characters are horny fuckers and you'll probably end up dating some crazy dude like Williams (ask /u/thatbookchick how that went) or a Tucker-inspired character of sorts. So if your character is trying to stay single, well, good luck dealing with those guys.
If you have any questions, ask me or any of the mods!
Yeah that's what I'm working towards. Actually might as well show you what it'll look like: https://workflowy.com/s/RBgsxj2BOf
That's the link to look at Day 1 of Episode 1. It has a bunch of the main events of the day in there.
It's workflowy! (https://workflowy.com/) I use it so much that it's kind of become my secondary brain, so I have it open all the time on my computer and on my phone when I'm out.
I have my task lists, my calendar, project organisation, references, sketches of ideas and numerous other things in it, couldn't recommend enough! :)
I'm always trying new stuff, but recently began using workflowy after someone's suggestion on here.
I use it to journal stuff throughout the day. I also use it to create todo lists, and keep track of small projects.
I use workflowy for notetaking and task lists. Simple, keyboard navigable, just enough structure to be useful, good across devices.
You're right though, it's a tough space.
Workflowy (Non-invitational link) only allows you to create 250 items (bullet points) per month unless you get others to sign up (like you are trying to with your link). Not sure how many people you've gotten to sign up with your invite link, but for new users that is pretty low.
I use workflowy.
Where you write them does not really matter.
It is all about flexibility. Yes you can have a place where you put ideas relevant to your game and call that a "game design doc" .
But those ideas are not something required,just because you put it down on paper does not mean you must implement it into code. They are a sea of possibilities that can live or die in your project.
However no idea is useless, even if it doesn't work in your project there might be another game, another structure where it can really shine. You can move it around your projects and little by little add insights into it about how it works or why it doesn't in various configurations.
This is why I recommend to design multiple games in parallel,it will help you think in multiple angles and cross pollinate between projects. Even in thinking of variants of games that changes things fundamentally.
The moment you take a idea that doesn't work in a game and see how it would work in another is the moment where you become a good designer. It will help in the design of all your games since you would have a better idea of how things fit.
EDIT: I'll give you an example on how I work here.
Trello looks god awful for a mental mapper and design tool.
My workflowy account needs more blood(well not really since I am full of referrals but I am still recommending).
Todoist is good. I think Workflowy sounds better for you if you don't care about typical app features. It's really flexible and simple, you can indent forever, tag, make long lists, etc. One of the founders said his list has over 20k items on it.
Sort of hard to explain, but here's a demo. If you like it, you can get double the space (500 items/month) with my invite. They limit you to 250 per month if you don't want to pay.
Here is an example on how I throw random thoughts and detail them further to get an idea on how I use it for design.
https://workflowy.com/s/52b0nWcfzc
It's not really readable by anyone else.
Didn't read the part about explaining it to other people but you can use it as that with a bit of effort.
This is best used however for game design brainstorming and keeping everything on track.
>how do you stick it all together?
This is not what you should do.
What you should do is throw any idea you have at it.
Sure you can structure things more better into variants but always keep things lying about.
I use Workflowy to throw anything and everything out there and detail the ideas as I go. I use multiple variants while still keeping old stuff. If I see something doesn't work I don't delete the idea, instead I detail why it doesn't work.
You should always play fast and loose with any GDD and the more you can get information without being locked into content the more options you will have.
If you do it this way it will also server as a patterns library that you can remix.
Try https://workflowy.com or similar tools - break it down into chunks, then sub chunks, etc.
Start on the first one, feel free to switch around a bit if it doesn't feel right. I often end up writing the middle of a document before the start and end.
Use your secret power - focus on a small detail (even if it's just one graph or one line of text). Fix it and move to the next. the bigger bits take care of themselves.
Yup, I was converted a few weeks ago. Before that, I was going a bunch of texts files on Dropbox. It really was a groundbreaking change once I figured out the "unlimited sheet" organisation of WorkFlowy. They got mobile app, I used the android one atm.
It is helping me a lot for the app that I am developing, having the ability to take structured note everywhere is pretty cool.
If you didn't register yet and want to try, you can use this link, it will give you (and me) more space for outlining.
Welcome oldtimer! Here's an outline of some tips and things that a friend and I put together as we were first learning the game: https://workflowy.com/s/P9qgyhwpXf
Funny how obvious most of those things are to me now. Particularly, I was really frustrated with docking before I figured out that orientation matters.
Fly strong and safe-ish!
Suppose you want to make a note to yourself to check a certain figure. With the Emmet plugin, press ctrl+shift+g and type "verify", and it will wrap the selected text in a <verify> tag. Then you can easily do a search later to show all the parts of your document you need to verify.
When you've got verification, hit ctrl+shift+a to select text between tags. Then change the text and hit ctrl+shift+; to remove the tag.
This is only limited by your imagination, and I'm still working it out. You could do an <improve> tag, a <combine> tag, etc.
If you're interested, here are my current notes on ST: