Or was, until came along. This browser-based tool provides the simplest possible structure for organizing your tasks and ideas, yet once you start using it, it's impossible to live without.

And now there's a mobile version in the form of . Like the Web version, it's completely free. Also like the Web version, it's indispensable -- though I do have a few gripes with it.

WorkFlowy starts you off with an almost entirely blank page (unless, of course, you're already using the Web version, in which case the app syncs to provide all your existing data).

It's really just an outliner, but one that's fast, easy, and unobtrusive. To get started, you create a heading for something: a project, a goal, ideas, your daily to-do list, or whatever.

From there you follow traditional outlining "rules": press the right arrow to increase the indent, left arrow  to decrease it, and so on.