Learn about the latest improvements, changes and fixes to Workflowy.
May 15, 2025
New feature (Beta): Chat with your Notes. Use Workflowy AI to chat with all your notes and make powerful connections. Learn more
Feb 27, 2025
Alphabetic item sorting. Sort nested items by alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order. Learn more
Feb 20, 2025
Proper markdown pasting. Paste markdown into Workflowy and it'll be properly formatted if we support the format. Learn more
Oct 8, 2024
Reorder starred items. Drag and drop starred items in any order in the sidebar. Learn more
Sep 19, 2024
Name starred searches. Give your starred searches custom names. Learn more
Aug 13, 2024
Files export. Save a copy of all your files in Workflowy to your desktop. Learn more
Jul 30, 2024
Code blocks, inline code, quotes, strikethrough. More text format options are now available from the bullet menu. Learn more
Mar 28, 2024
File icons in sidebar. Items that have files will display an icon in the sidebar instead of just having the file name. Learn more
Mar 27, 2024
YouTube shorts embeds. Paste any YouTube short URL to embed it into your document. Learn more
Mar 26, 2024
Undo & Redo mobile shortcut keys. Easily undo or redo a previous action with dedicated mobile keyboard shortcuts.
Mar 22, 2024
Top item autofocus on startup. The cursor will now automatically start on the top item when you open Workflowy. Previously you had to click first before writing anything.
Mar 21, 2024
Loom embeds. Loom videos now display inline when pasted into Workflowy. You can toggle this automatic embedding in the settings panel.
Mar 20, 2024
Hide empty paragraphs in sidebar. Empty paragraphs are no longer displayed in the sidebar for a tidier experience.
Mar 19, 2024
Inline audio playback . Play audio files you upload to Workflowy, no need to download them.
Mar 14, 2024
Quick capture on iOS and Mac. Install our Apple shortcut to send notes to Workflowy without opening the app. Combine it with Siri for hand-free note taking.
Show / Hide desktop app shortcut. Instantly hide or show the Workflowy desktop app with this keyboard shortcut.
Windows: Win + Alt + W Mac: Cmd + Alt + W
Mar 12, 2024
Mirror Here & Move Here slash commands. You can create a mirror of an item located anywhere in your account with the '/mirror here' slash command.
You can also move items from anywhere in your account to your current location with the '/move here'
Feb 6, 2024
Mirror To. You can create mirrors in other parts of your account with a slash command, item menu and multi-select menu.
Gallery mode for full-screen images. Navigate through all on screen images with your arrow keys while in full-screen mode.
(1)Selecting ‘Show full-screen’ from the item menu allows you to view the images in a full-screen gallery and (2)navigate to the next or previous image using the arrows.
3D Secure payments. We’ve added 3D Secure payments, giving an extra layer of security when upgrading your account.
Changes
Move To is now available in the multi-select menu.
Export window now remembers which option you chose last time.
Fixes
Images properly fit the screen when you open them full-size.
Keyboard on iOS doesn’t “forget” the System theme anymore.
Slash-command now follows the automatic System theme.
Removed weird empty space next to the to-do bullets.
The “/” doesn’t remain in text anymore after using slash commands (we hope, let us know if that little gremlin’s still bothering you).
Restored the “Add to account” button for shared lists opened on mobile devices (which mysteriously disappeared some time ago).
Restored copying & pasting between different Workflowy accounts.
Jan 16, 2024
Zapier integration. You can now automatically send information to Workflowy from thousands of applications like Google calendar, Slack, Reddit, and Pocket.
Nov 28, 2024
Date picker. We’ve added a comprehensive date picker that makes it super easy to set a date.
‘!!’ date input shortcut. Just type the exclamation sign on an empty item or after an empty space if there’s already text to display the date picker.
Custom date format. You can now choose from the most common date formats and even modify them if they’re not quite to your liking.You can also change the time format from 12 hours to 24 hours.
Exploding dates. Hold the Alt key on Windows or CMD key on Mac and clicking the date tag to send it to the shadow realm.
Range support in date tags. Create date tags that cover a range of dates. In the date picker toggle ‘range’ and picking a start and end date or by simply adding a dash “-” between two dates when typing them directly in Workflowy.
Add date slash command. Using the “/date” command will let you set a date.
New date format – pill. Clicking these new tags will display the date picker where you can set a new date or remove the tag altogether.
Click a date to change it. You can now easily modify any date tag just by clicking it.
