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Great news. We created a fix for that. If you join our WorkFlowy Alpha Group (which we will be promoting on our blog and here in the subreddit very soon) you can test it out: https://workflowy.com/features/alpha

Also hello to this subreddit! This is Lee, a new WorkFlowy employee who is very excited to be helping out!

Thanks for asking, I tried to set up a similar discussion on Quora.

Mine's changed since then, mine 'home' level is now:

• Searches
• Tags
• separator
• Action List (todo)
• Work
• Personal

The searches and tags are pretty simple; just some 'meta' searches I keep saved there so I can quickly search my whole account. (Things like is:complete last-changed:7d so I can see what I did the past week. Turn on complete:visible when you do this) I know there's a lot more powerful things I could put there, so that's always a work in progress. Same for tags, just things like #temporary (so I can quickly compare two separate lists I might need to transfer data between) and #due. Again, going to add more here as I see fit. These are separated by a string of dashes and underscores (_–) for aesthetics.

The Action List is just my main collection point. If I can't figure out where to add anything at first I just add it there to sort later. This also holds my reviews list. I'm sorting out a system of reviews that will be weekly, monthly, quarterly and so on.

Work and personal are pretty self explanatory. No matter what I tried before, this always became a main determining factor. And it helps because I have to be honest with myself and question why I'm doing something when I think about where to add it.

There's a good bit more I could go into as I go into the levels, but I'll stop there for sake of boredom and privacy.

You can get part of the way there using the "OR" search operator:

Books OR American OR "Author 1"

Regarding the feature request, I understand its appeal for some, but I'd bet it would be annoying to others. In addition to OR, a space in search is AND. Perhaps a 3rd search operator could be invented? Maybe?

Books / American / "Author 1"

Here's mine: https://workflowy.com/s/C9at.VgB43H8TId

It's a daily list template, grouped by week, for all 365 days of 2018.

I use a tag called "#thisweek" that I update each week, to drill into this week more easily throughout the day.

This is an unfortunate limitation of the mobile apps which are need of attention... rumor is they will be getting it sooner than later :)

Here are 2 options: * Install the HandyFlowy app which has a proper delete button. * Before HandyFlowy, I used to tag the bullet with '#d' and then complete it. I always have completed hidden, so it disappears. Then on the desktop I star this search and use it to delete the items later.

https://workflowy.com/#?q=%23d%20is%3Acomplete

Awesome, thanks! This is what I was thinking. Or if you (or /u/workflowypal) want to make a new thread that is the official list of things you want to work on and we can vote, feel free. And, is there a alpha reddit sub, or you mean just the alpha page?

As far as my $0.02, * First thing I think of using the current app is when you're scrolling down a long list and some bullets are really long (have a lot of text), I inadvertently bring up the keyboard to edit a long bullet since I have to tap on it twice to scroll past it. Minor thing, but that's literally the first thing I think of when I think of using the mobile app. * Tag autocomplete would be awesome * The expand/collapse buttons are pretty tiny, and, again, sometimes difficult to tap on long bullets.

another tip: you can paste the url of the query inside a note of the bullet. in this example I use the timestamp feature.

These are the search terms I used the 'todo' ones are searching on #todo today

the url should look something like this:

https://workflowy.com/#/<hexadecimal pointer in workflowy>?q=%23todo%20today

then you build up your note something like this. and when you are zoomed in to that bullet you always have an overview.

NOW :: #WorkingFromHome #Onsite

todo today :: todo tomorrow :: todo yesterday

today :: tomorrow :: yesterday

this week :: next week :: last week

this month :: next month :: last month

In Terminal: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --new-window --app=https://workflowy.com;

or

In Chrome > ⋮ > More tools > Create shortcut

Then name it and be sure "Open as window" is checked. Then you can pin it to taskbar/dock. And easily launch multiple instances if desired.

I'm intrigued but also don't follow.

It sounds kinda like https://ifttt.com/ maybe?

There's already plenty of ways to start a node server in a container. From your description, I can't see any reason I'd want to go through Workflowy, when I could just run a terminal command.

Maybe if you have some example use cases?

As an aside, what I would like is a TUI version of Workflowy!

I agree completely with you ... I think WF would be the perfect notes tool for me in they added several key features, including the ability to write paragraphs when I want.

Luckily, it seems that may be true as https://workflowy.com/updates/ notes that they are indeed working adding paragraph support soon.

I hope it's soon as in within a few months not end of year.

This is what I have done:

1. Download the Stylus Chrome add-on
2. Apply the CSS below for workflowy.com
3. Save (and sync if you use multiple browsers or locations)

&#8203;

.page.active{ margin-top: 54px; margin-left: 6px !important; margin-right: 6px !important; }

.name--focused .content { border-radius: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; padding-left: 4px !important; margin-bottom: -3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important; background-color: #fffdd0 !important; }

This does two things:

1. Makes the page margin around Workflowy smaller (slight gain in usable space).
2. Highlights the item that has focus with background-color specified.

Looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/eyg3B5X.png

Good luck.

I'm using Stylus (for Chrome) and have added these small changes for workflowy.com which make the margins a little tighter allowing for just a bit more work area:

.page.active{

margin-top: 54px;

margin-left: 6px !important;

margin-right: 6px !important;

}

You can't use "Speech to Notes" directly with Workflowy for some reason but I often just past from the web browser into workflowy without issue. https://speechnotes.co/

I paid for the plugin also, but Workflowy seems to be the one site it won't work directly. I guess the way the code is wrapped?? Anyway, this works for me.

What's TUI?

To answer your questions...

It's not really ifttt or zapier, because they're no code solutions.

This would be more like a cross between https://observablehq.com/ and https://www.heroku.com/ in a workflowy UI. (The workflowy UI replaces vs code and your terminal)

I've contemplated having a WorkFlowy link serve as the hub for a conference website (https://workflowy.com/s/virtual-conference-i/fqQDsVVCIJ01vQVa) with info about sessions, speakers, etc. but I haven't tried it on non-WorkFlowyians yet to see if they would understand how to navigate it.

A suggested workaround is using a task app like Todoist and linking it to the related node URL in Workflowy. For example, when in Todoist I type;

Shutdown work ev week day at 5pm - https://workflowy.com/#/92eblah30d37 (*link*) @daily #Admin

This reminds me every work day at 5pm to click on the link and it takes me to Workflowy my list things to do before I leave the office.

(@daily is a label showing me its a daily routine, #Admin is the name of the project, and (*link*) shortens the URL and makes it look a lot nicer!

I'm not sure, but I don't think it is an offline version. My understanding is it just copies the title / url of the website you are on and opens workflowy.com so you can paste it.

Ah ha! Thanks!

Yes, I want to have the HTML displayed not interpreted.

Apparently I need to investigate potential interesting functions outside the WF namespace. Any other cool functions of interest not documented here?:

https://workflowy.com/s/workflowy-extension-api/6ziauXitmUj7idN2

It seams like the Gif I tried to post didn't show up so here is a link to the example gif I made to help demonstrate feature request.

Also here is the shared Workflowy list. https://www.dropbox.com/s/tr75ku22zzfh51j/workflowy_171124.gif?dl=0

https://workflowy.com/s/BAGn.5Ni2oIZeCm

You need to be diligent when using cut in #2... if you are distracted on your way to pasting and accidentally copy something else, the original cut is lost. An alternate method to #1 is to replace #move tags with adding (or removing) a space to/from each bullet. Then use a bookmarked or starred search for last-changed:1 to isolate them... and no need to delete tags afterwards.

https://workflowy.com/s/EExX.VguI18E9Jo This is my current to-do list system. To me it demonstrates the simple power of Workflowy, because though it looks complex and confusing, once you sort out how the tags work its actually really easy to use.

Tested this out by expanding and collapsing the entire Bible in WorkFlowy: https://workflowy.com/s/bq7iBLI2zX

The optimization works great.

You can also do a search from your home page for a single letter ("a", "s", etc.) and things don't freeze up. I'm impressed.

Cool! I like your idea of having a separate section for Timed actions. One thing I do that you might like, is putting my list of tags in a note (shift-enter under my list header), instead of their own bullet point. I think it's neater, and you can see (and click on) the list of tags at the top when you're zoomed in on that bullet point.

Example: https://workflowy.com/s/2ulmdwfvE5

If you can't type certain characters, it's your keyboards problem. I use messagease, but of course most people won't. However, often used symbols could float just above the keyboard, that would be beneficial for most people.