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{
  "title": "Guides and workflows",
  "intro": "Workflowy is endlessly flexible and fits how you want to work. Here's how other people use it.",
  "description": "Explore practical Workflowy guides for task management, note taking, productivity systems, collaboration, and more."
}
---

Workflowy is a blank canvas. It doesn't have separate apps for tasks, notes, and projects. It has one structure that can become any of those things depending on how you use it.

Most people start with a simple list and find it spreading from there.

# Common workflows

- [Note taking basics](/help/note-taking-basics). Capture ideas and organize information with the outline method.
- [To-do lists](/help/to-do-list). Get more from a simple system for capturing and completing tasks.
- [Task management basics](/help/task-management-basics). Define clear tasks, break down projects, and organize work around outcomes.
- [Meeting note basics](/help/meeting-notes). Prepare agendas, capture useful notes, and turn decisions into action items.
- [Building a template library](/help/building-a-template-library). Reuse structures and standardize processes you repeat.
- [Checklists](/help/checklist). Create reliable, repeatable processes and reduce missed steps.

# Productivity systems

- [Find your productivity system](/help/find-your-productivity-system). Compare different approaches and choose one that fits how you work.
- [Build a second brain](/help/build-a-second-brain). Capture, organize, distill, and express the information that matters to you.
- [Bullet Journal](/help/bullet-journal). Track tasks, events, and notes with daily, monthly, and future logs.
- [PARA Method](/help/para-method). Organize information into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives.
- [PARA system yearly review](/help/para-system-yearly-review). Refresh your PARA system as your goals and responsibilities change.
- [Getting Things Done](/help/getting-things-done). Capture commitments and decide what to do next without relying on memory.
- [GTD Lite](/help/gtd-system-lite). Use a simpler version of GTD with less setup and maintenance.
- [Kanban](/help/kanban-board). Visualize work as it moves through the stages of a process.
- [Ivy Lee Method](/help/ivy-lee-method). Focus each day on a short, prioritized list of tasks.
- [MoSCoW method](/help/moscow-method). Prioritize project requirements by what must, should, could, and won't be done.
- [Pomodoro technique](/help/pomodoro-technique). Work in focused sprints with regular breaks.
- [Time blocking](/help/time-blocking). Plan the day in blocks of focused time.

# Collaboration

Workflowy can support anything from a shared list between two people to a team workspace or client process. Learn how to [set up a collaborative workspace and workflow](/help/collaboration-workflows) with clear ownership and handoffs.

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Tip: If you're not sure where to start, just start writing. The structure will emerge.
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