A ”holder” for the node you want somewhere else

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Kristian Borglund

• March 28, 2018 20:20
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Imagine you want to move a node from one place in the doc to another.
It would be VERY convenient to drag the node to the side of the screen for temporary parking while finding the place you want to move it to, and then drag it from the parking spot to the destination place. The parking place also could serve as a memory bank of ”the last moved nodes” if you have one of those days you want to rearrange the structure of your doc.

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  Kyler W Kelly

  • March 31, 2018 18:55

  This or a multi-column view would be real nice.

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  audrey orenstein

  • March 31, 2018 22:57

  Why not use cut/paste?

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  Sarah Howell

  • April 13, 2018 00:42

  This is the method I use. Works pretty well.

  https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203295535-How-can-I-move-items-a-long-distance-in-Workflowy-

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  Matt Hulse

  • June 11, 2018 18:05
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  I spend a lot of time tagging source and destination locations so that they show up in one list just so that I can drag items to a distant location in my outline and then I clean up the temporary tags.  This is the approach outlined in the link above.  Sure, it works, but I do it enough that streamlining this process would save me a lot of time and effort. 

  This suggestion of having a place to park a selected bullet while navigating to the target is also implemented in Moo.do, and it works.  And honestly, it can be implemented using cut/paste (except for on mobile.) . However, I prefer the concept of panes in Moo.do which provide a mechanism for opening new views into the same list each one zoomed into a different location.   This opens up some new workflows like a kanban board allowing you to drag items from zoomed location to zoomed location to update their status.  I can do this in browser tabs in Workflowy, but you can't drag and drop between tabs, and cut and paste to a new tab creates a new bullet url, breaking any links I have to the moved item. 
  
  It would be awesome to have a multi-column, or panel view so that I could simply have the source and destination locations zoomed side by side and drag and drop as desired.

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  rawbytz

  • June 12, 2018 15:55

  I agree a two panel view would be nice. 
  
  fwiw, this is the trick I use to move stuff.
  
  Bookmark this home page search for items edited in the last minute.
  https://workflowy.com/#?q=last-changed%3A1 

  Then, rather than tagging, simply add (or remove) a space to both the source and destination. 

  Then click the bookmark. Drag and drop. Done.

   

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  Aaron

  • June 14, 2018 11:19

  I much prefer the 'move item' style for this.

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  Aidan Feldman

  • November 15, 2018 15:26

  cc https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360022525072-Easy-way-to-move-over-long-distances

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