Date tags

Add dates to your content and find what is coming up.

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When to use

Date tags add structured dates to ordinary Workflowy nodes. Use them for deadlines, meetings, reminders, and anything you want to find by day, week, month, or date range.

Add date tags to bullets so you can search with exact dates, date ranges, or natural language like this week and tomorrow. Date tags also let dated items appear in Calendar under Found Dates, while staying connected to the original item.

Add a date with numbers

  1. Start typing a date in one of the supported formats
  2. The date widget will pop up and suggest a date
  3. Once the suggestion matches the date you want, hit Enter

There are multiple date formats you can use. MM means month, DD means day, and YY or YYYY means year.

  • MM-DD-YYYY
  • MM/DD/YYYY
  • MM-DD-YY
  • MM/DD/YY
  • MM-DD
  • MM/DD

Add a date with natural language

Workflowy can also understand several natural language dates.

  1. Start typing a natural language date
  2. The date widget will pop up and suggest a date
  3. Once the suggestion matches the date you want, hit Enter

You can use terms like today, tomorrow, yesterday, this week, next week, last week, this month, next month, last month, this year, next year, and last year.

Add a date with the date picker

You can add date tags with a date picker that lets you choose your date from a calendar. You can also use the date picker to set date ranges.

  1. Type !! to display the date picker
  2. Choose a date from the calendar, one of the frequently used options, or type your date using natural language
  3. Hit Enter to confirm your date

You can also display the date picker using the slash command /date.

Set a custom date format

You can set a custom date format that will be used for all date tags.

  1. Open the settings menu
  2. Choose a date format preset from the dropdown menu
  3. Close the settings menu

All date tags will automatically update to reflect the date format you chose.

Remove date tags

You can remove any date tag by deleting it like regular text or with a keyboard shortcut.

  1. Hold the Alt key on Windows or Cmd key on Mac
  2. Click the date tag you want to remove

The date tag will explode and be removed.

Find dated items

Search for a specific date or a natural-language period such as this week, next month, or last year. You can also enter a range or use operators such as date-after:.

Combine a date with other search terms to create views such as this week's open tasks or next month's meetings. See Advanced search for supported formats and operators.

Use date tags with Calendar

Items with date tags can appear in Calendar as Found Dates on the corresponding day. They remain connected to the original item, so edits are reflected wherever the item appears.

See Plan with Calendar to work with daily notes and Timeline to plan across upcoming dates.

Change date preferences

Open Workflowy settings to choose whether the week starts on Sunday or Monday. This affects the date picker, displayed date tags, and searches such as this week.

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