WorkFlowy Estimator WorkFlowy Estimator

Productivity
Version: 0.3.1
Last Update: 2017-09-16

Overview

WorkFlowy Estimator is a Chrome extension developed by jchoelt. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of WorkFlowy Estimator is 0.3.1, updated on 2017-09-16.
89 users have installed this extension. 4 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Compute estimates right from Workflowy! {openSource}

Want to compute estimates right from Workflowy? Or just sum up some stuff in a workflowy page?

This is your tool.

**How does it work?**

Any line that starts with a number formatted like this will be consider a price (or price range):

$100
$200..400

Then, for any line that contains a triple dollar sign ($$$), the plugin will show the sum of all price (or a range) based on all of its visible children.

**Note on ranges:**

If you sum a lot of ranges, say 10 items from $50..100, you will notice that the total range reported by the application isn't $750 +/ $250 but $750 +/- $100

This is because the estimator doesn't consider your $50..$100 range to be a "flat probability". In other terms, it's more likely to be around the center of the interval than it is to be at the limits. To achieve that, it creates a so-called "bell curve" centered at $75. It then returns an interval at 95% confidence which is smaller (and more accurate) that doing a simple sum of intervals.

Rating

4 ratings

Total Installs

89

Information

Last Update

2017-09-16

Current Version

0.3.1

Size

57.24KiB

Author

jchoelt

Website

None

Category

Productivity

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avatar Roman Serdyukov
2021-03-03

It seems this Extention doesn't work.
At least, this shows nothing:
total $$$
* $12 qwer
* $13 asdf

avatar Ricky Wu
2019-02-28

It would be more perfect if we could define the symbols of money.

avatar Robert Reding
2019-01-26

I use Estimator two ways.

Under BACKLOG, I keep an ordered list of home projects to complete such as paint the deck, buy living room carpeting, etc. For each item I estimate the cost. As I add and remove items and change estimates, I see a total cost of future repairs and enhancements.

For long duration tasks, I create subtasks with hour or day estimates. I can quickly compute remaining effort as subtasks I overlooked are added or existing subtasks are completed. Although the hours or days show as $, I'm so happy I don't have to repeatedly do the math that I don't care about the formatting.

An added feature I did not glean from the Overview, is that Estimator rolls sums up the hierarchy, i.e., total, subtotal, subsubtotal. This saves me a lot of time.

While Estimator is no substitute for a full blown estimation tool, it's a great add on for a Workflowly level of estimation for tasks that arise quickly and are completed quickly.

avatar Roman Serdyukov
2021-03-03

It seems this Extention doesn't work.
At least, this shows nothing:
total $$$
* $12 qwer
* $13 asdf

avatar Ricky Wu
2019-02-28

It would be more perfect if we could define the symbols of money.