Announcing Sublists

One of my favorite things about Stormweight is the way it lets me look at ideas in relation to each other. Of course you can map out which are more important and compare that to others, but you can also group idea by category. When lists get longer, though, things can get a little unwieldy. Ranking ideas across categories can be like comparing apples to oranges In the past, just to make things manageable, I’ve split a list into multiple lists by category. Although this made it easier to review and rank ideas, I still felt like the ideas belonged in a single list where I could compare them to each other.

For awhile now, I’ve really wanted to be able to expand a single idea into a list of ideas - a list within a list. I ran into this again at Thanksgiving. Jacob and I made up a list of things we needed to do before we could go — take out the trash, pack bags, get the food together, etc. We found that ideas like, “7 pair of socks,” and, “sketch pad?” were also cluttering up the list without a clear way to rank them. Sure, we wanted to remember to put them in the bags, and socks are more important than a sketch pad, but they didn’t exactly compare neatly with “put the lights on a timer.”

So, Jacob enabled sublists, a feature he’s been playing with for awhile, and it worked great. Now we could have a Thanksgiving list with ideas like, “pack” and “clean,” but when I expanded “pack” there was a little note that said, “this idea has a sublist.” Click on the note, and you go to the list. Now I can rank everything from sock to cellphone charger to sketchpad, deciding what’s most important to take without those priorities confusing the priorities of the master list.

Now every idea has a create sublist button. Give sublists a try and let us know what you think.