To make a paragraph or heading
You can change any bullet's appearance to resemble that of a paragraph (¶), a main heading (H1) or a secondary heading (H2).
In the case of the H1 and H2, the text you have selected will increase in size and the bullet for that text will be hidden.
The formatting for a paragraph (¶) will hide the bullet for that text.
There are two main ways to do this, one using the context menu and another using the slash command.
With the slash command
- Move your cursor to a line you wish to change
- Type '/' to display the slash command menu
- Type or select 'Heading 1', 'Heading 2', or 'Paragraph'
- The line of text you had your cursor on will be updated
With the context menu
- Select any single line of text with your mouse cursor
- The context menu will appear
- Select the H1, H2, or ¶ (paragraph) options
- The line of text you had your cursor on will be updated
To remove or change the format
To remove or change the format simply open the context menu for the item you want to change or open the slash command menu and choose the new format.
In the case of the context menu you would select the same format the item currently has to remove that format.
If you use the slash command, you can select the 'Bullets' option to remove the current format.
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Hey Workflowy Team! Good job with this feature 😃
Love it. - Very useful.
It appears to be the case that this doesn't work in the mobile app. Am I right about that? If so, that's unfortunate, because that's where I do almost all of my work.
Later edit: actually, it doesn't seem to work in the Mac OS app either. So I guess I should be using the web app instead. Did I miss something somewhere along the line?
I'm also not able to get the slash command to call up any menus in either iOS or MacOS in either Safari or Chrome. When I type "/" I get "/" and nothing more. I have labs and slash enabled. In the web app, however, I'm able to get to the ¶ menu by highlighting the text. At least, that works in the browser in MacOS; that doesn't work in the browser in iOS either.
OK, I’m an idiot. The slash command works fine all over the place. I didn’t realize I had to precede the slash with a space. Problem solved.
There is one advantage in mobile to putting long text in notes rather than as a series of outline items and then formatting the outline as paragraphs. In mobile, especially on the phone in portrait mode, the margin on the right is extremely wide to reserve space for the expand/collapse arrows. This makes it difficult to fit more than a few words on a line. That problem doesn’t occur when typing in a note, where the text is allowed to expand further to the right. (And the font in notes is smaller as well. PS. Please allow CSS support in mobile. If that’s been implemented, that’s also something I’ve missed.)
Yes, the laughably convoluted slash command method can be used on mobile once you figure out all the nuances of getting the menu to actually appear then cleaning up the crap it leaves behind in your text, none of is explained in the article. But the the "H1, H2, or ¶ (paragraph) options" are missing entirely from the context menu. It would be stellar if you gave us basic feature parity across all your platforms, but as that's evidently too great an ask then for the love of Christ at least give us accurate documentation.
A followup to my earlier comment about the narrow display for outline items when working on a phone. I don’t know if something changed about this in the last few months, but I noticed over the weekend that this doesn’t seem to be an issue now. Items take up most the available horizontal space, so adding notes in that form doesn’t feel cramped now.
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