Comment by sriku

Interesting. I had the opposite experience and could use my notes (taken in workflowy while reading papers) towards my thesis rather well. Tried Roam for a while but realized pretty early on it wasn't going to work for me. Main reason being speed! Workflowy works at "speed of thought" for me. For a long while I was lamenting the lack of basics like date stamping and linking, but all that and more is now available and I couldn't be happier. "must be in my workflowy" is a thought that is fairly frequent. WF's tagging with auto completion is better for me than auto linking.

With auto linking, I think the main issue for me is that I want the connection made in my head rather than in a tool. So searching and finding related notes works rather well and the deliberate act helps gradually internalize the links for me.