Settings

The settings panel has several sections that allow you to modify the appearance, image settings, and experimental features.

View settings

1. Click the options button in the menu bar
‍2. Click the “Settings” option

Change appearance

1. Open the options panel from the menu bar
2. Click on “Settings”
3. Toggle theme settings under the “Appearance” section
4. Close the setting panel

Turn on keyboard shortcut panel

If you want to view the keyboard shortcuts inside of Workflowy, you can turn on the shortcut panel.

You can also use the keyboard shortcut Win: CTRL + ?, Mac: CMD +?

‍1. Click the options button in the menu bar
2. Click the “Settings” option
3. Toggle the “Help me learn the keyboard shortcuts” option

Toggle email summaries

Workflowy will automatically send you daily update emails that show the previous day’s changes in your account. You can turn this email off if you prefer not to receive it.

1. Click the options button in the menu bar
‍2. Click the “Settings” option
‍3. Toggle the “Send daily email summaries of changes to my account” option

Toggle labs features

Workflowy is constantly adding new features, those features are first tested in Workflowy labs. Workflowy labs is an experimental version of the web app, desktop app, and mobile app that lets the user turn on and use experimental features.

‍Please note: Features in labs are constantly being updated and changed so only use labs if you are comfortable with things changing and breaking.

1. Click the options button in the menu bar
‍2. Click the “Settings” option
‍3. Toggle “Workflowy labs” under Experimental features
‍4. Refresh your Workflowy using Win: CTRL + R, Mac: CMD + R
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You can now open the settings panel again and you'll see experimental features you can toggle on or off.

Manage embed settings

Workflowy can display certain types of media inline when URLs for the media are pasted. When a supported URL is pasted, the content will automatically be displayed.

You can disable this automatic embedding by toggling the embed type off.

Workflowy currently supports the following embed types:
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• YouTube Videos
• YouTube Shorts
• Tweets / X posts
• Loom videos