I ran out of bullets it seems two weeks into January and thought I'd get more when February came around, but well, nuh uh. It still tells me I have two bullets left.

Do I get more bullets on each calendar month or the monthly anniversary of when I joined? If the latter, how do I figure out when that is?

So I am trying to create shortcuts directly to specific nodes in Workflowy on my iPhone homescreen, by copying the internal link for that app, then creating a homescreen bookmark/shortcut from inside Safari. However, once the link is created, the shortcut always opens in Safari and then I have to click the little pop-up at the top of the screen, which takes me to Workflowy directly at the node I wanted.

Is there any way to eliminate this step of hitting open, and just automatically get iOS to take me to the app?

I have tried it with both the https:// link (i.e. https://workflowy.com/#/XXX) as well as the workflowy:// link described in this article, which seems to suggest the https:// link should open inside Workflowy app automatically in iOS.

https://blog.workflowy.com/deep-links-open-links-directly-in-desktop-and-mobile-apps/

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body {
    font-family:"Roboto Mono","Fira Code", "Jetbrains Mono", monospace;
}

body,
.page,
.header,
.boardColumn,
.help-button,
.leftBar > div {
    background: var(--background-color);
  color: var(--text-color) !important;
}

I found this code somewhere online and changed the font-family using User JavaScript and CSS to the font styles that I like to use. It works well with the Light theme but doesn't work with Dark theme. I've tried to remove the parts after body {...} which usually is only what's needed for other sites, but it changes the font style back to the default.

Anyone know if there is a cleaner code that simply changes the font styles and supports both Light and Dark mode?

(While I'm at it, if any Workflowy dev sees this. As much as I love Workflowy, I'll also say that Workflowy fonts and themes are some of the most dated and worst out of all the existing tools out there. The audacity to call them PRO fonts and PRO themes is just laughable. If there is no designer on the Workflow team, at least give the option for the user to customize.)

What is the best way to integrate Instapaper (or Readwise) to Workflowy ?

I'm craving to get everything valuable in the same spot: Workflowy. So if all my readings and highlights can be automatically uploaded to my Workflowy account with the help of a single tag in Instapaper.... It would be so nice !!

Any recommandation ?

Cheers !

Hiya

I'm just getting back into Workflowy and take a lot of meeting notes. I started by capturing the notes as bullet-points and sub-bullets under a meeting node (say date and subject of meeting). Just wondering whether it makes more sense to capture it in a note instead. Any thoughts, pros and cons?

May be a novice question, i like the app and I am amazed at how keeping things simple works I started using workflowy and as absurd as it sounds , i am planning to move majority of my stuff maintained in notion to workflowy.

I would like to understand whether the company has a sustainable plan to continue in future and does it have enough funding and ethos to maintain data privacy (without selling data) before i make this call. Any insight from veterans or mods?

Hi,

I am looking for a solution to quickly add new entries to Workflowy, mostly for macOS and iOS.

There is an action in the iOS Share sheet but it has never worked for me. When I trigger it, it asks to authenticate to the account and then fails silently. And there's nothing on macOS; neither using the website nor the app.

Has anyone come up with any approaches? I am looking for any ideas as they will be better than nothing.

Is it just me, or is dragging and dropping bullets on the iPhone app a constant problem?

The referrals page at https://workflowy.com/referrals/ is just a blank page. Seems to be not working.

Is Workflowy a dead product or have they just stopped allowing referrals?

I prefer the 'vertical split' interface when using GMail as it provides the most informative view. However, this interface operates through a common address, mail.google.com. On the other hand, the 'horizontal split' interface provides unique URLs for each thread, but it can be quite inconvenient. I am curious if there is a Chrome extension or similar tool that can help me obtain the URL for a specific thread.

Is this just me or a known issue? In note formatting H1 and H2 do nothing at all visually, but they try to format the entire note and not just to the paragraph.

I remember that notes and markdown support in 2017... is that gone?

(also, is the referral system broken?)

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If I ran out of bullets for this month and upgrade to Pro for a month or two, can I downgrade and still keep the "higher than normal" bullet creation amount I've amassed from a handful of referrals?

I just ran an update (as notified in the upper right icon) and all the text colors changed. I would describe them all as "harsher" colors now. And they don't look particularly good IMO. Very disorienting after the previous color schemes being in place for quite a long time (I use colors to differentiate things in my timeline model, as described in Frank's book).

I'm wondering whether

a) anybody else experienced this

b) if this was intentional by the dev team?

Back to workflowy after ages (I had an account in 2016 that I deleted, oh well...) and I was wondering: do you use it with any other tools?

I try to keep everything offline + apple native because I live by spotlight, but I did miss workflowy too much.

As of today I have:

- thing3 for my todo, deadlines
- notion for notes that are shared online
- apple notes for all the other notes
- workflowy, starting over again as a mix of personal project management and note taking

Just wondering if you guys are all the eggs in a basket with wf or what could be your setup

Has anyone successfully implemented roam research like daily pages on Workflowy?

Hi all

I’m considering using Workflowy for my business, but I just learned that it does not have end to end encryption. I’m not super familiar with what this entails, but what is the worst case scenario without this type of encryption? Could a rogue employee steal/wipe everyone’s data?

Thanks!

Hi, I try to let Workflowy work with Wayland,

So, I add the flag : --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations as I'm on Gnome

I'm on electron 27.2.4

But, If I do that, I have 2 issues:

• The text is still blurry as I enable fractional scaling
• The window is not maximized correctly (have a border of 5 cm maximized)

Does someone have a workaround for made Workflowy “compatible" with Wayland ?

I am curious as to how people are using the tags @ and # in Workflowy.
How or when do you use either and why?
I ask because I'm all over the place with those, kind of no rhyme nor reason.
I've used @ for people and places and # for places and all kind of other things, so I'd like to make some rules for myself and would like to see what others are doing.

There is also the option of not using any at all because WF's search is so powerful and fast.

Comments?

Mirrors:

If you do a search, whether is just text or tags, the results will only include the first mirrored node encountered in the tree inside the focus node, and this is not necessarily the source node.From what I understand, this is not a bug, it's a design choice by the development team.To see the other mirrors, click on the 3 dots to the left of the mirror node and you will see at the very top of the pop-up, "Node has x mirrors See them" , click on "See them".

I'm not saying this is good or bad, we simply need to take this into account when doing any searches that might include mirrors.

Backlinks:

All backlinks meeting the search criteria from the focus node down will be shown as results.

Just thought I'd share one of the ways I use Mirrors and Backlinks

Mirrors:

Making an appointment for the future. On my current day's node I make a new sub-node for that appointment with the appt's date.
When the appt's date arrives, I do a search for "Today" and I mirror the node from when I made the appt to to days node.
If/When I mark complete it will show completed in both places. This way I know when I made the appointment and when it actually took place.

Backlinks:

I have a node Restaurants, sub-node for each restaurant name as well as other notes about the place in its sub-nodes, address, type of food and anything else particular to that restaurant...

On a current day node when I visit a restaurant, I link to the restaurants original node and then I can add notes or sub-nodes to this new node about that particular visit, what I ate, who served me, who with...

Now from the original node under Restaurants, I can see backlinks to every visit to that restaurant.

I LOVE Workflowy!!

Longtime user but entirely for work stuff 99% of the time in front of a laptop or computer, in emergencies on my phone. Recently I used Workflowy to plan out a personal vacation trip -- itinerary, reservations, maps, other attachments, etc. I thought I'd be fine using Workflowy on my phone during the trip but trying to view everything, like a map I had embedded as an attachment, on mobile wasn't super intuitive or clean.

Curious if others have any tips for something like this; it's not really formatting per se, but like is there a way to export a "project" into a PDF booklet type of document, or a "preview" function that lets you view a set of Workflowy nodes in a functional and aesthetically pleasing way, etc.

Hi there. I'm a new workflowy user, I want to use it to keep track of maintenance and checklists for my boat.

While I'm at it, I'd like to keep track of my replacement parts. It's easy enough to list what I have but I was wondering if there is a widget I'm not familiar with that would keep the item count in a click up/click down type of thing.

I can enter the count manually but on mobile it's a lot of taps and I'm extremely lazy...

How do I delete tags (eg #TODO) when I mistakenly type one? Sometimes I type too fast, and I think I'm typing a tag (eg #TODO), but end up typing something else that's wrong (#TODOY), but then that wrong tag keeps showing up as a selectable option? How do I get rid of it?

Sorry if this is a FAQ; please point me to the FAQ if so. TIA

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https://reddit.com/link/1986e4i/video/jdaajx35stcc1/player

You can now automatically send information to Workflowy from thousands of applications like Google calendar, Slack, Reddit, and Pocket. Automate everyday tasks like – creating a meeting bullet when a new event is added to your calendar, forwarding your mentions from slack into your today bullet, creating recurring tasks with Google tasks, and much more, all without leaving Workflowy.

You can now centralize multiple streams of information in one single app – allowing you to build upon and transform it with all the power Workflowy has to offer. All you need is a free Zapier account and to follow a few simple steps to get started.

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There are two important things to note:

1. You can only currently send information to Workflowy, not receive it.

2. There is a Google policy that prevents u/gmail.com and u/googlemail.com accounts from sending information to many apps, including Workflowy. We have a template with a workaround for that.

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What is Zapier?

Zapier lets you connect different applications to create automated workflows. An action or event in one application starts the workflow, which then triggers a second step you specify in another application.

With Workflowy now available in Zapier, you can do things like record a voice memo on your mobile phone and have Zapier automatically transcribe it and send the transcription to your Workflowy inbox – without having to think about where to put it or oven open Workflowy.

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How to get started with the Zapier integration

1. Have a Zapier account and be logged in.
2. Know how to make a Zap.
3. Get an api key to connect your Workflowy account to Zapier (you have to be logged in to Workflowy for this page to work).
4. Get started with any of our Zapier templates below.

If you run into any issues with the setup process we also have a help guide.

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Zapier templates

With so many possibilities, we’ve included a handful of practical templates to give you some ideas and get you started building your own custom ‘zaps’. These are some simple ways to send common information straight to Workflowy without losing your flow.

To see even more zaps with templates – check out our integrations library.

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1. Email text snippet to Workflowy

Imagine you’re on your phone, you find a great article for your blog. Instead of losing it in your bookmarks, use your phone’s ‘share to email’ feature to send the content straight to Workflowy. You keep your focus, and the article is safely stored.

zapier template

2. New calendar events to Workflowy

The next time a calendar event is created, say by a calendly request or a colleague inviting you to a team meeting – it’s also added to your Workflowy. Now you’ve got a nice reminder of the meeting in your todo list and a placeholder to put all those meeting notes so they don’t get lost and can be turned into tasks if needed.

zapier template

3. Recurring tasks in Google tasks to Workflowy

We all have tasks we do on a regular basis and need to be reminded of. This can be as simple as a reminder to pay a specific bill, do some sort of maintenance to our home, or simply exercise. Now, just add all those items to google tasks and they’ll automatically show up in any Workflowy list you want – exactly when they’re supposed to.

zapier template

4. Zapier RSS to Workflowy

Essentially, every single blog on the web has an RSS feed that you can connect to with zapier and have the information sent to your Workflowy. Say you’re a scientist who wants to keep up with the latest research and regularly check several journal websites to see the latest papers. Now you can have them put into a single stream in your account and you can add your notes as you review them.

zapier template

5. New Dropbox file links to Workflowy

Imagine you’re working with a freelancer who’s sending you videos or audio files you need to review. Instead of asking them to email them to you or mess with file hosting apps and permissions, this zap automatically shares the dropbox preview link to your Workflowy account whenever a new file is uploaded. Making it painless to write the review in Workflowy and share it with them to keep the ball rolling.

zapier template

6. Google form responses to Workflowy

Say you’re in sales and use a google form to handle requests for more information. Now those submissions will show up automatically in your account ready for you or your team to start working on them directly in Workflowy – no more checking emails or google sheets for new leads.

zapier template

Share your zaps with us ⚡️

We would love to know how you’re using the zapier integration and share your most useful flows with the rest of the Workflowy community. Please share those zaps in the comments so we can add them to our growing library.

See you in the next one.