Workflowy MultiFlow
Column view for WorkFlowy
Because the Chrome Web Store review process takes a few days, it's taken a little longer than I expected to get this launched on Product Hunt, but in the meantime, it's given me the chance to show some of what MultiFlow can do in a video.
Check out the link below to see how to work with a schedule and copy and paste in long lists.
In late 2020 WorkFlowy added the ability to embed links into bullets, and it would prove to be a game changer.
A few months later and I was looking to improve my scheduling game, and I wondered if I could create columns using my WorkFlowy x 2 script dynamically by clicking on links.
I got a POC working in about an hour, and it took an evening and early morning of work to convert this into a browser extension which would enable multiple-columns on the click of a toolbar button:
It turns out this would enable me to do away with bloated "To do" lists, and instead link directly to the content in a kind of "custom navigation" and open any link in a new column and "deep dive" without losing context.
It's been a bit of a game changer for my productivity; at the top of my schedule I have a link to "distractions inbox" and whenever I notice myself getting distracted with something, I just click that link, write down the idea, copy the URLs, whatever is needed and can get on with the task in hand!
With any luck, and the pressure from apps like Roam, WorkFlowy may introduce something like this in the core product. That would enable not just copy and paste, but actual dragging and dropping of nodes to any tree / column you like.
Here's hoping!
After a year of suffering with the "find" problem I began to suffer another problem; long lists were becoming increasingly hard to work with.
It occurred to me that having two lists, side by side, would solve this. I would be able to copy from one to the other. The quick way to do this was to open two windows, and it worked!
But it was a bit of hassle to do this each time you wanted to work with long lists, so I wondered if it could be done in one window with iframes. The quick answer was "yes it could".
As so often with these kinds of things, answers lead to more questions; the next one being "can I load bullets from the left into the frame on the right?". Again, the answer was "yes".
And thus the WorkFlowy x 2 bookmarklet, was born!
https://gist.github.com/davestewart/a86ed576604cee9f8a15bd97451a6974
In December 2018, Workflowy was rewritten by the core team in React.
This supposedly was a good thing; a better, more modern framework and architecture would make WorkFlowy better for everyone. Hurrah!
Whilst they did a great job in keeping things largely the same, one annoying problem began to rear its head: the browser's "find" functionality didn't work because React implemented rendering optimisations which resulted in offscreen text not being rendered.
Argh! Not much to do at this point, but hope they fix it.
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