A flow share is sharing any process/routine/software/etc. that assists your workflow. Any little productivity hack, time saver, accessibility improvement.
Flow Shares from our community:
- Using Tab Groups and Profiles in Safari
- Capture and Highlight Flow
- Storing and Retrieving Quotes in Readwise
- macOS Keyboard Flow
The Flow Patrol team at Stimpunks continuously dogfoods what we make with our own creaking humanity in mind. Universal design, design questioning, liberatory design, zero-based design, design for real life, neurodiversity, and the social model of disability inform us as we continuously confront what we make as users, as people with lives and backstories, aches and pains, and bad days. Continuous development requires continuous outspoken humanity. We’re designated dissenters, public editors, and ombudsfolk advocating for users.
We engage in workflow thinking.
Workflow thinking is the act of reading knowledge work as modular and intertwined with technologies.
Through workflow thinking, writers break any particular task into a series of smaller steps and search for writing technologies and practices that might improve, challenge, or alter their work. Workflow thinking encourages the writer to ask questions about each component part of the workflow: “Through which technologies will I accomplish this task? Why? What does a change in practices offer here?” In offering the concept of workflow thinking, we diverge from the business- and systems-focused concept of the workflow (one that is often used by our participants) in suggesting that workflow thinking need not privilege efficiency above all else. Just as there are compelling outcomes to automating a mundane computing task via a program or script, there are also compelling outcomes to purposefully introducing constraints to a modular workflow component—for example, writing a draft in crayon (Wysocki et al. 2004)—and purposefully introducing friction into process.
Writing Workflows | Introduction
