Markdown Export

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Gerald

• November 16, 2017 14:23

Would love to see Markdown export added to the existing export options. 

1. Markdown export retains the formatting added to the workflowy bullets.
2. Markdown export captures the indentation hierarchy of the workflowy outline.
3. To do that, it uses a smart algorithm that employs a mix of bullets and headlines to match the outline hierarchy: The top outline elements are always headlines, the most bottom outline elements are always bullets. Leaving everything in between to be headlines. If the total hierarchy size of the workflowy outline exceeds the maximum hierarchy size of a markdown document (6 headings + 1 bullet level = 7, or 3 headings + 1 bullet level = 4 to be more compatible with more modern markdown implementations), then the lowest hierarchy levels are flattened. In this case users have to manually adjust their exported document, or have to split up their outline before exporting to generate more meaningful markdown documents.

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  Workflowy Support (Sasha)

  • December 16, 2017 01:56

  Our team has stated to users before that they don't plan to support markdown, due to plans for other types of editing. However, please see this helpful article....
  
  https://blog.workflowy.com/2015/12/17/markdown-preview/

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  Gerald

  • December 20, 2017 10:29

  Well, if I understand correctly, the article you've linked shows a workaround which still requires you to write the markdown formatting instructions into workflowy.

  What I am referring to, is to extract the markdown formatting instruction from the workflowy outline hierarchy.

  It's really unfortunate if you decide to never implement that. The solution I've written down seems rather simple to implement.

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  Gerald

  • December 20, 2017 10:33

  Also, by adding markdown support, you'd be getting much more flexibility in terms of formats than you have with opml. I'd love to be able to turn my workflowy outlines into presentations for example, or properly formatted specifications documents, others probably would love to create Word documents and others. With the widespread support of markdown and so many converters available for it, you'd be killing a lot of birds with that stone.

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  Alistair MacDonald

  • November 29, 2018 00:26

  I agree with these guys, Markdown export would be fantastic. I would sign up for Pro if this was possible.

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  Daniel

  • June 24, 2019 04:31

  This would be amazing! 

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  Daniel

  • June 24, 2019 04:35

  This would be amazing! 

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  Harm te Molder

  • July 25, 2020 14:25

  With the new link functionality and planned support for images, Markdown exports would make even more sense

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  Aidan Feldman

  • October 23, 2020 00:49
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  A workaround:

  1. Select the bullets you want in WorkFlowy
  2. Copy
  3. Go to Paste to Markdown
  4. Paste
  5. Copy the resulting Markdown
  6. Paste wherever you need it

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  Ryan

  • April 12, 2022 20:28

  Thanks Aidan! 👋

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