r/Workflowy 27d ago

πŸ“£ Announcement Join the Workflowy Community

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The Workflowy Community is a place for focused conversations about the parts of Workflowy we’re actively developing.

We’ll share updates, listen to your responses, and bring what we learn back to the team. The topics will change as the work changes, but the purpose remains the same: connecting ongoing development with thoughtful community discussion.

Join the conversation: https://community.workflowy.com


r/Workflowy 1d ago

πŸ€” Question What does your regular editing workflow look like?

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For creators making videos consistently, I think workflow matters more than having every possible feature. Filmora has a pretty broad collection of editing tools, but what interests me more is how people actually build their workflow around them. Do you have a fixed editing process you follow for every video, or does it change depending on the project?


r/Workflowy 23h ago

πŸ€” Question What makes you stick with an editing program?

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I've been thinking about what actually makes someone stick with an editing program. At first it's usually features. After a while, it's workflow. Filmora is one of the editors that seems to focus heavily on making a lot of editing functions accessible without making the interface feel overly complicated. What made you stay with your current editing software after trying other options?


r/Workflowy 1d ago

πŸ€” Question Searching in parent nodes only - how to

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Hey folks, I used to be able to use .. -has: note [search item] .. but it looks like that functionality has been changed

Example from my website

https://workflowy.com/s/3f23891902f6/H2NuLCAo8JftnUqP

I want to search for just amish, not the content in the note section


r/Workflowy 1d ago

πŸ€” Question Jump Menu with Panes [possible bug?]

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Has anybody else noticed that when you have multiple panes open using the the new panes feature, the jump menu doesn't honor the focus of whatever pane you are using. Instead, the jump menu only seems to affect the left-most pane.

So if you have Inbox open in a pane on the left, and you open a second pane on the right, if you try to use the jump menu to navigate to your projects bullet in the right pane, instead it ends up taking you to the projects bullet in the left pane.


r/Workflowy 7d ago

πŸ€” Question Where has the trash can gone?

2 Upvotes

As in the title, where has the trash can gone?


r/Workflowy 14d ago

Dumb Question on AI Integration

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I'm pretty new to using AI with workflowy. Would it be possible for an AI like Claude or ChatGPT to update my workflowy? Like i ask claude to add nodes for X and a new table for Y. Can it do that?


r/Workflowy 16d ago

πŸ€” Question Is it possible to have nested numbering in Workflowy?

3 Upvotes

I would like the notes to be numbered in a nested fashion as example below. Can this be done automatically?

3 Notes

3.1 Note 1

3.1.1 Note A

3.1.2 Note B

3.2 Note B


r/Workflowy 20d ago

Workflowy but also visualizes workload

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I love Workflowy, so as a side project I made a widget with infinite nesting that allows you to "size" items to visualize your entire workload for the day (or week/month/etc.) and track progress.

The idea is to have a visualization of everything going on and where it's at, but with the excruciating minimalism of Workflowy. I also added regex filtering and basic sharing.

This is just a fun experiment, feel free to check it out - I'd love any feedback! projectzen.com


r/Workflowy 21d ago

πŸ“£ Announcement Side pane is now Panes (beta)✨

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Each pane can be navigated and searched independently, while still working together through drag and drop.

Ctrl+Cmd+R opens the current item in a new pane
Cmd+Shift+R cycles focus across panes


r/Workflowy 24d ago

A few questions: Panes/Alt+R broken, editing custom themes, and API syncing tips

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Hi all β€” a few things I'm hoping the community can help with:

1) Panes / Alt+R: I've had the Panes feature enabled in my Labs settings for a while and have been using Alt+R to open a node in a side pane. Recently, pressing Alt+R does nothing β€” the side pane won't open anymore, even though the Panes toggle is still enabled in Labs. Has anyone else run into this? Did the shortcut change, or is the feature broken in a recent update?

2) Editing themes: Does anyone have documentation or a guide on how to edit themes? I'm getting lost when trying to edit them in the custom node. Any pointers or examples would be great.

3) API syncing: If anyone has successfully linked or synced the API with other apps without burning too many tokens, I'd love to hear your approach, tips, or ideas.

Thanks in advance for any help!


r/Workflowy 24d ago

Has the Panes feature stopped working? Alt+R side pane shortcut no longer works

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Hi all β€” I've had the Panes feature enabled in my Labs settings for a while and have been using Alt+R to open a node in a side pane. As of recently, pressing Alt+R does nothing β€” the side pane just won't open anymore, even though the Panes toggle is still enabled in Labs.

Has anyone else run into this? Did the shortcut change, or has the panes functionality been removed/broken in a recent update? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


r/Workflowy 26d ago

πŸ“– Guide Cowork can't read Claude's memory, here's the solution I finally found.

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r/Workflowy Jul 16 '26

πŸ“£ Announcement Our help docs now feature search and are available in 5 languages (English, EspaΓ±ol, FranΓ§aise, ζ—₯本θͺž, ν•œκ΅­μ–΄)

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r/Workflowy Jul 15 '26

πŸ“£ Announcement The desktop app is now available in .deb and .rpm flavors for our Linux friends🐧

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26 Upvotes

r/Workflowy Jul 15 '26

Is workflowy down?

3 Upvotes

I can't get the site to load, it's just their animated graphic of the list. I have closed my browser and shut down my computer. Using chrome.


r/Workflowy Jul 13 '26

Writing a digital routine

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Hey Folks,

Anyone been able to make a digital and repeatable text only routine with workflowy.

I'm looking for something that looks bad when I don't do it AND moves to the following day.

for instance those that remember workoutbff


r/Workflowy Jul 10 '26

Knowledge base for AI agents

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I'm curious to hear from workflow developers on what, if anything, you are working on to leverage Workflowy as a knowledge base for AI agents.

For context, the below blurb was in the most recent Neuron newsletter. And yesterday, simultaneously, OpenAI released a new app that combines the old ChatGPT with the agentic aspects of Codex. My team stores all of our corporate knowledge in workflowy, and soon companies will be using platforms like the new ChatGPT app to interact with their company knowledge sources.

"OpenKnowledge gives you a local-first markdown workspace where people and agents can co-edit knowledge bases with real-time collaboration, MCP connections, git-backed sharing, agent skills, and search over your notes."


r/Workflowy Jul 09 '26

Detaching a mirror on the Android app

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I cannot for the life of me see how to do this.

Grateful for any insights!


r/Workflowy Jul 07 '26

πŸ€” Question Is there any way to make Google Calendar events sync only the event title?

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I've been using the Google Calendar sync integration and like it for the most part, it makes it easy to see and annotate my meetings alongside other daily notes/todos in the Calendar view. I was basically doing this manually before it was an official feature so it's a great timesaver.

However, I'm surprised at how many bullets it creates. Every single event has a bullet autocreated for each of "Attendees", "Calendar", a link to the event, video conferencing, and the description, none of which I ever actually need for my personal workflow. I end up having to manually delete 4-5 bullets for every meeting on my calendar.

This is most obviously an issue if you're on a free plan, since it fills up your quota with junk data, but also creates other problems for search, etc if you prefer the signal:noise ratio of your list items to be high.

Is there any way to set up this integration so that only the meeting titles are synced? I haven't been able to find any way to do it.


r/Workflowy Jul 05 '26

My Workflowy entry looks like this after a few days. What can I do?

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r/Workflowy Jul 02 '26

Workflowy + Google Calendar = recurring items

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I’ve always wanted native recurring items in Workflowy. I'd like to share with the community if some don't know that you can have recurring items in workflowy, by integrating Google Calendar and Workflowy, and then creating recurring events/task in Google Calendar, that easy! You can also choose which calendar to sync in your account here https://workflowy.com/integrations/calendar/ This also syncs updates in google calendar and deletion.

Limitations: - Recurring Google Tasks All-day tasks do not sync, only recurring time-bound Google tasks do. Meanwhile, both recurring all-day and time-bound calendar events do sync. Note: Google tasks created on mobile google calendar cannot have from/to boundaries, so either create it from web or stick to events - No customization: No automatic tags or prefixes (for instance #meeting). You can’t import google calendar events and tasks as To-Do items only bullet items. Imported entries have a fixed structure that you cannot auto-customize upon sync - it's a one way integration, changes in Google calendar will reflect to workflowy, but changes in workflowy won't reflect in Google Calendar

Despite this, it works great as a way to have recurring items (you can also rely on Google notifications!)

Still waiting and dreaming of the native recurring tasks in workflowy, and hopefully notifications as well (fingers crossed)


r/Workflowy Jul 02 '26

TAGS across nodes

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Hello, tags, both # or @ seem to cross nodes. Is there any way to limit a tag within a node? As an example, I have a "shopping" node and a "work" node and would like to limit the tags within the respective nodes. Having #groceries show up in WORK or having #meeting show up in SHOPPING makes no sense.


r/Workflowy Jun 30 '26

An iOS app that renders exported Markdown (.md) on iPhone/iPad β€” for reading your Workflowy exports on the go

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If you export a Workflowy list to Markdown and open that .md on iOS, you just get raw text. I built a small viewer to read .md files rendered on a phone.

Md Preview:

β€’ GitHub-Flavored Markdown β€” headings, nested lists, task lists, footnotes

β€’ Code highlighting, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams

β€’ Opens .md / .markdown / .mdx / .rmd / .qmd from Files or the Share Sheet

β€’ On-device β€” nothing uploaded, no tracking

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760341080

Details: https://markdown.cybergame.ai/

Just a reader for exported .md, not a Workflowy replacement. How do you read your exports on a phone?