SPELLCHECK for desktop app

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CARLOS E G SILVA

• February 07, 2018 12:29

Please, add SPELLCHECK to desktop app, in order you can work off-line and have this handy functionality available too.

It would be ideal the spellcheck working as in Chrome, in the sense you can select/change multiple languages (e.g. I need to write in three different languages in Workflowy shared projects).

Thanks for considering it.

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  Justin D Freeman

  • April 06, 2018 15:07

  This is a critical feature to me: Workflowy is excellent but I often need to extract and share information from Workflowy - it becomes immediately out of sync when I need to spellcheck that extracted content to share it with a straight face :)  For professional adoption this is a necessary functionality.

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  Alex Payne

  • June 02, 2018 22:24

  Another vote for this. Allowing the native system spellcheck to work in the macOS app would be ideal. That would also ensure that text replacement (as configured in System Preferences -> Keyboard) works.

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  David O'Neill

  • September 19, 2018 15:44

  Add me to this list of votes for adding spell checking to the desktop app.

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  Ian Svoboda

  • October 18, 2018 19:55

  + 1 For spellcheck on the apps (non-web versions). 

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  Josh Madison

  • March 07, 2019 16:44

  I would love to have spellcheck on the Mac Desktop version as well

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  Stephen E Maher

  • March 13, 2019 17:41

  Hear, hear!

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  Chris

  • July 12, 2019 17:49

  Please add spell check for desktop app.

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  Vijay Khakhria

  • July 14, 2019 11:08

  Agread - Spel chek very very impotent!  

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  Jake Turner

  • August 14, 2019 03:50

  Spell checking on the Mac desktop app would be very helpful

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  Doug Ouverson

  • November 06, 2019 13:14

  Really needed spell check yesterday. Add my vote!

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  Kutlay Topatan

  • December 04, 2019 17:42

  +1 , please add this.

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  Dustin G

  • December 06, 2019 17:48

  +1000000000

  This (still) seems like low hanging fruit. 

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  Frédéric Bartels

  • February 28, 2020 02:22

  Yup, spellcheck in different languages would we awesome on desktop app (Windows for me)

  Otherwise I love the app

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  Sarah

  • February 28, 2020 21:49

  How do you run spell check to get rid of those annoying red lines? My company name is not a word in English, for example.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • March 02, 2020 00:37

  Hi Sarah,

  I guess the instructions depend on the browser you're using... but, for instance, here's what can be done in Chrome:

  1. Red, underlined words/ phrases: Right click on the word/ phrase and select "Add to dictionary" or just "A"

  2. You can activate Chrome to do spellcheck for more than one language. I have activated for English and Portuguese. Right click on a space in a text field where there is no word and select "Spell check"... where you will see options you can configure.

   

  ~ Frank

   

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  Jesper Wilhelmsson

  • March 11, 2020 23:31

  Yep, spellchecking is on the top of my list of desired features for Workflowy.

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  Doug Ouverson

  • April 03, 2020 14:01

  I pretty much only use the Desktop app (on macOS).

  I would very much like to see SPELLCHECK added.

  Kind regards,

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  Zachary Cresswell

  • April 09, 2020 09:22

  +1 on this. 

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  Alfred Peters

  • July 09, 2020 18:59

  So, given the break neck pace in other developments like transclusion, dates, boards, etc. It seems like the macos app simply isn't a priority. I use WorkFlowy on MacOs and I just use it as a chromeapp and enable grammerly. Works great. Is there some feature that'd keep you on the actual app? I may be wrong about this but isn't it just an electron wrapper of the site as is anyways?

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  Trent

  • September 04, 2020 14:55

  I have just recently started using this app on the free tier but really am enjoying it. I was considering upgrading to the paid tier but seeing there is no spell check on the stand-alone app is a deal-breaker for me. 

  Please add this in to the app for a much better experience for the users, 

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  Matt

  • September 07, 2020 11:44
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  Just would like to add my interest in this feature.
  Could it be possible to make use of Grammerly's services perhaps?

  https://www.grammarly.com/

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • September 07, 2020 14:04

  I believe we are many, the ones who only use WorkFlowy running on the Mac OS desktop app.

  So having a spellcheck feature would make a huge difference.
  
  And having Grammarly work inside WF would take it to just another level   :) 

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  Roy Furr

  • October 09, 2020 13:15

  I'm on Windows 10 and I just saw that distinctive red underline chrome gives me for spell check...  in the WorkFlowy desktop app.

  I believe it's arrived, very quietly.

  Thank you WorkFlowy dev team!

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