Month: September 2013

I’ve been using Workflowy for about a year now to keep track of just about everything; its simple list format suits me perfectly. I don’t use it as a short term to-do list (I have a book for that) but everything else goes into Workflowy: web bookmarks, quotes, lists, ideas, projects, workflows, event planning. It’s a personality prosthesis for my memory.

As soon as I started looking at the texts and web sites assigned for week 1 of Art and Social Practice, I found something else I wanted to remember and come back to, at which point I created a new Workflowy list for the course. Then I wondered if I could ‘keep’ the list on this blog, for anyone else who might be interested. Workflowy doesn’t yet make an official API available but it turns out there’s a very simple way to embed a list – thanks to Daniel Paul O’Donnell for this.

For my purposes, as mine is a public list, when I shared it in Workflowy I selected ‘others can view’ – not edit. I’ll be adding to my list throughout the course: notes, interesting web sites, questions, things to do and so on.

Did I say, I think Workflowy is brilliant!

A couple of weeks ago I saw a Facebook post from Emergents about a new module in Art and Social Practice being offered at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). It’s taught by Roxane Permar and based at Shetland College UHI, but has been opened up to people elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands. Our learning centre here on Tiree is part of Argyll College UHI and has video conferencing equipment, so I’ve taken the plunge and enrolled for the course, along with Frances Woodhead of Tiree Glass. The first VC session is tomorrow afternoon. It’s a new way of learning for me, and a new area to learn. Exciting and a bit scary!