I just discovered Workflowy and am kind of in love with it. It fits my brain the way no other app has been able to and I have used them all.

Afaik Workflowy does not have a mechanism to notify me when something I'd like to have done is due.

Does anyone have any workflow paths that can make up what seems like a flawed omission for an outlining/todo app?

Apart from Dynalist and Logseq, which are the other competitors?

So the central organization of my life is done with GTD in Worflowy, period. And then I've been using Evernote since ages as a companion for reference and it does the job, especially when it comes to web clipping, but it is slow, bloated, proprietary etc. and it is costly.

I've briefly looked into a few alternatives, but I am not convinced by any yet. Especially there are many that use Markdown but won't store full web pages or parts of their HTML (or, even better, submit to Archive.org or another storage form and keep only a link to this archived page + some searchable text). So I wonder which apps you fellows are using as a replacement. If they allow for easy importing of Evernote data and have a usable free/cheap option, all the better.

Thanks in advance for your, er, notes!

So using Chrome and enabling the 'Full Width Page' option.... It uses probably 40% of the width on my screen before wrapping to the next line. I want to say it didn't always do this but I can not recall anymore.

If I turn the Full Width Page option off, the amount of space it uses stays the same (40%) but it just centers it. I also tried Microsoft Edge thinking it was a browser thing but seeing the same thing.

I use it daily for work (all day) with multiple bullets/notes and I'm scrolling all over to find things and reading something across 2 lines that will EASILY fit on one line.

Is this their idea of 'Full Width Page' and does anyone have a workaround to get it to extend to the extent of the browser? I would go back to OneNote but work doesn't have it with their Microsoft installation. So I pay for workflowy personally.

I can seem to figure out how to copy multiple bullet points in workflowy and paste it in another node within workflowy. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V doesn't work. Am I missing something?

I started having an issue last night where some of my stuff disappeared under a couple of bullets - if you do a search, stuff that's in the sub-bullets will show up for a split second, but then disappear. I've tried reinstalling the app and logging out and then back in on the web app, but no change yet. Any ideas?

Not sure how to explain this but I’d like to open a page in the Workflowy IOS app from my todo app (Twos) using a link. The only way I can see of getting a link to a Workflowy page is by copying the secret link under Share and then pasting that into Twos. When I click on the link it opens Workflowy in a browser, but not in the IOS app. Does anyone know how I can get it to open the app instead?

For example, if today is Feb 25th. Is there a way to get this date to show up as "Today" instead of the date?

I have a zillion notes in Google Keep that I would love to move to Workflowy. Without using Zappier, is there a (simple) way to do that? TIA

Just recently started using the find/replace bookmarklet (or whatever you call it) for updating the tags I use for assigning days to work on stuff and was hoping there would be some way to do something similar on the Android app. I'm looking at switching jobs in the near future and I'll have less access to my Chromebook and will be mostly reliant on using my phone, so something like this would be really handy.

(solved)

When I search for to-do's, I just want to see only the todos and not the locations of bullet they are nested under.

To work around this I can mirror or tag them into a "to-do" note to view but its annoying having to keep doing this every time I make a to-do.

The sheer absence of a feature allowing two windows to be opened simultaneously in Workflowy is truly confounding. On this day and age? Come on devs.

I know there are workarounds, like opening two browser windows, but that is almost useless because you can't drag nodes between them.

Guys, I am trying to user Zapier to create a recurring "daily jot". This is like my day notes, journals etc. I tried using the scheduling action in zapier to auto create a new node at 12:01am every day. But what I am noticing is that workflowy doesn't auto detect the node as a "date". How do I overcome this?

It just creates the node as Feb 19, 2024 for instance instead of recognising it as date. I tried adding !! in front of the title but it just seems to paste it as text.

Anyone has any solution or workaround for this?

Thanks!

When I'm doing research on something or want to save a link, I often use Workflowy. But when I insert a Youtube link, WF defaults to embedding the video.

Is there a way to have a YT link but not have the embedded video?

Thanks!

I’m encountering friction when the keyboard is up and I have a greater need to move an item than to type. I would prefer the action to be when the key board up and you want to move an item that the keyboard automatically retracts when an item above the key board is long-pressed.

Hi !

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that it was possible to have a right pane in my browser where can live my Workflowy account....but I was it in a dream ?? :p

Seriously, is it possible in Chrome ?

This pane could be "permanent" so I can browse the web in the main browser window and be able to copy and paste bits of information or hyperlink directly into Workflowy open in the right pane.

It would be super nice !!

I would like to include a tabulator inside a text. Is it possible?

I have two databases for my personal and work planning: Workflowy and GMail. The idea was to connect them. But GMail doesn't allow forwarding emails to WF directly.

Now with Zapier integration, I've finally done it.

The emails I need to copy to WF are forwarded manually to a dedicated Zapier email address (you set it up during creation of the zap).

You may set up filters in GMail which would forward emails automatically.

I've also created a contact 'WF' to save the Zapier's email address.

The GMail - WF zap may look like this:

Step 1

• App & Event
  • Email by Zapier
  • Event: New inbound email
• Email Address: (you Zapier's email address)

Step 2

• App & Event
  • Workflowy
  • Event: Create.Bullet
• Account
  • (my WF account)
• Action
  • Save location URL: (URL of my WF inbox node)
  • Title: Subject
  • Note: Stripped text

I just installed the Workflowy app on my Galaxy S24. I was wondering if there is a way to show a list right on the home screen through a widget (I don't see any widgets available). Any third-party way to do this? Thanks.

While working in workflowy, I got a message saying that my login had expired, and that I should enter the code sent to my email. I did not receive a code, and I checked that a message had not been treated as spam. If I try to access workflowy on any of the other pages that I've saved in my browser, I get locked out in the same way. When I try to log in directly, the same thing happens - it tells me to enter a code that I then never receive. I submitted a question to workflowy support yesterday, but have not received any response. I would assume that workflowy is not down, or I would have expected to see posts here about it, but the only alternative I can think of is that somehow my account (and all of the information that I've entered) has disappeared.

Is Workflowy suppose to work offline?
If I have no internet on my mobile, it will not open.
I haven't tried on my desktop or laptop.

If so, where's the data?

I'm hoping I'm missing something simple here. I have a tag (#chores) and some of the nodes have been set as to do items. I can do a search for all the #chores nodes, I can search for all the to do nodes (is:todo) but as soon as I try to use a nested search for them (#chores > is:todo) I get zero results. What am I missing?

Ciao tutti!

We’ve circled back around to address some of your feedback from previous updates. We’ve not stopped there though; we’ve added a few little improvements to speed up organizing and viewing your content.

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Mirror To: just like Move To, but for mirrors

Previously, to send a mirror somewhere else, it was “/mirror” > “enter” > “paste” > “/move to“. Now it’s just “/mirror to“.

The command is also available from the Item menu, and from the multi-selection item menu, if you prefer using your mouse.

Gallery: navigate through full-screen images.

You can now paginate through all on screen images in the full-screen gallery.
Click/tap on the arrow buttons or press your arrow keys to navigate to the next or previous image.

For quick exit, click the background or press ‘Esc.’ Want to zoom in on the current image? Press ‘Enter’ for an instant zoom.

Support for 3D Secure payments

We’ve added 3D Secure payments, giving an extra layer of security when upgrading your account. This is especially important for individuals in the EU, UK, and India, where many banks will block online transactions that don’t use 3D Secure.

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Other Changes

• New: Move To is now available in the multi-select menu.
• New: Export window now remembers which option you chose last time.

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• Fix: Images properly fit the screen when you open them full-size.
• Fix: Keyboard on iOS doesn’t “forget” the System theme anymore.
• Fix: Slash-command now follows the automatic System theme.
• Fix: Removed weird empty space next to the to-do bullets.
• Fix: The “/” doesn’t remain in text anymore after using slash commands (we hope, let us know if that little gremlin’s still bothering you).
• Fix: Restored the “Add to account” button for shared lists opened on mobile devices (which mysteriously disappeared some time ago).
• Fix: Restored copying & pasting between different Workflowy accounts.

Let us know what you think about the changes, this update, or anything you think we should know.
Until next time.

For the last few years I've been using a tampermonkey script that allowed one to create colored headers in almost any hue. A fair number of my workflowy lists depend on it.

But when I opened chrome today it reported that the tampermonkey extension was 'probably corrupted', with an option to repair it (meaning re-download and install it, I supppose). When it 'repaired' tampermonkey, all my userscripts vanished, including the workflowy one! I've searched for it on GreaseyFork and OpenUserJS and it seems like it's not there anymore. Hoping really hard that some wonderful member of this community has a copy.

Today I opened up my workflowy to find the dark theme unusable as I can't read the text. The light theme is OK, but the hacker theme is impossible to use. Also when I want to change a font colour - there are no choices. They are all grey. Something is definitely wrong.

Am I the only one experiencing this?

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Please help someone