If you gave the items in your Workflowy outline some notes, those notes are imported into the Tinderbox notes as the note text. Note text from Workflowy is also imported as the note text of the corresponding Tinderbox notes. See below: The original Workflowy parent note becomes the parent container note in Tinderbox, holding the original Workflowy child notes. Within the OPML container note is another container note (let’s call this the parent container note), which correlates to the parent note from Workflowy within this parent container note are the child notes. Tinderbox creates a new container note with the OPML text as the note content (let’s call this the OPML container note). Open Tinderbox and paste the OPML text wherever you need it. When you paste the OPML text into Tinderbox, a top level note is created with the OPML text in the note. Select the choice “Export.” When the export dialog appears, select OPML, then just copy that text. Once your outline is ready to go, click on the bullet icon of the parent note. (I could just as easily create a tag called #Tinderbox that would achieve the same thing.) Select “Export” from the little drop down menu that appears when you click on the bullet icon at the start of the top level of the notes you want to export. I’ve set up a section of my outline that I call Tinderbox Drawer, where I can work on anything I want to import into Tinderbox. Of course you start by creating your notes in Workflowy. Create an outline for importing to Tinderbox.
#Workflowy import how to
Here’s how to do it: Workflowy is an adept, universally accessible outliner. I can build an outline, add notes to the individual entries, and then import them right into a Tinderbox document.
#Workflowy import android
Being cloud-based and with an iOS app (not sure if there is an Android app, but probably), Workflowy is available to me most times when Tinderbox is not. And I believe I’ve found my solution in Workflowy.
Tinderbox would be a perfect helper for this project, so I am back to needing a way to bring in work that I do on other devices.
Recently, I’ve started collecting research and notes for a book I want to write. So, for instance, a note titled “Note A,” might have note text that says, “This is an example of note text in Note A,” The content of those notes I am calling note text. In this article, I will refer to any single item, whether in Workflowy or Tinderbox, as a note. Consequently, I end up dumping stuff into Evernote, which is terrific for keeping data sync’d across devices, but which does almost nothing for me in terms of analysis and visualization.Ī note on nomenclature: It can become confusing writing about two different applications that may use different nomenclature.
#Workflowy import windows
I spend eight hours a day on my office Windows PC, and am frequently on the go with just my iPad with which to collect and write notes. But I do not use Tinderbox as much as I would like for the simple reason that I can only run it on my MacBooks. The mind-bogglingly versatile and powerful “ tool for notes” is unsurpassed for helping me make sense of complex data (complex to me, child’s play to others perhaps).
If you’re reading this blog post, you undoubtedly know that Tinderbox is one of my favorite pieces of software.