Create Hyperlinks
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can you please create Hyperlinks to external websites instead of forcing us to paste the entire weblink into the workflowy document? It makes them much longer then they need to be and hyperlinks are much cleaner looking then seeing the entire URL - especially when a single workflowy page has 100 URLs.
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Hey yall. This is Jesse, and we are going to do hyperlinks. In fact, we recently did a bunch of technical work to enable them (they were blocked for that reason).
We're removing the untrue comments about things I didn't say :)
For anyone new to this thread, someone pretended to quote me that I hated hyperlinks, and it started a bit of a fire. For the record, I actually love hyperlinks. They're delightful.
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Agree. It will be very nice to provide some small function moudles for user to custom.
I love the clean design of Workflowy: Just lists (Indent/outdent/zoom in/zoom out/expand/collapse) ,tags(@,#) and Star can be used for anyone to meet multiple demand. Amazing!
But the output and disappear are not my agreeables. I'm a big fun of markdown, and the links showed in workflowy real ugly.So ,please, consider the function that the markdown output or shortened URL carefully.
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I'm a new workflowy user, and it would be so great to be able to keep all my favorite links in workflowy. Ironically, even the text box I'm using for this comment makes it super easy to add a link!
I have links in chrome that are supposedly synchronized, but never work right, so I have a page at work in Confluence, but that's a pain in the neck to edit, and besides it doesn't have the wonderful zooming capabilities of workflowy. Then I started a wordpress blog to keep all my links in, but it doesn't really work that great either, precisely because there's no way to zoom/expand and contract the list. I *love* workflowy. Zooming is brilliant! I feel like it's actually life changing because it helps me stay on task at work amid all the massive number of distractions we all now face.
So being able to have all of my important links in one place that's easy to use would be yet another way workflowy changes my life.
Thanks!!!!!
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I too really miss being able to insert hyperlinks like I can in Google Docs or even in simple macOS TextEdit. I only ask that WorkFlowy doesn’t do it by having two versions of text (syntax/Markdown version and rendered version) and jumping between them whenever we go to edit text. It is too disorienting and ugly. I know other online outliners do it like that but I really don’t like it. WYSIWYG is better. Thanks
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That is really ridiculous. I am a total fan of WorkFlowy, but here Jesse seems to totally misunderstand the essence of the web. I use WorkFlowy for everything, including lots of project documentation for clients. Explicit hyperlinks are extremely ugly, unprofessional looking, and unnecessary in documentation. So, please WorkFlowy, get your act together and listen to your long-time customers and fans!
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This. +1.
It sounds like it's not going to happen, but I just wanted to plead with you guys at WorkFlowy. Jesse, I know that we don't know each other, but: please, please, please. The inability to embed links behind text (essentially just re-titling the link rather than requiring me to call it whatever the link itself says) is the one thing that makes it impossible for me to use WorkFlowy exclusively. WorkFlowy is otherwise the holy grail of helping me organize my thoughts and finally migrate my (what feels like) 3 billion thoughts and snippets of information into a structured place that actually works the way my mind works. I am literally begging you to support this.
Just one last appeal to reason - the whole beauty of WorkFlowy is that it allows all of us users to organize and structure our thoughts in the way that works for our brains, rather than the typical modern tech-tool design philosophy of "you must think in the way that my product forces you to." The way that words look on a page and their spacial relationship to each other is hugely important to some people, including myself. Without the ability to effectively re-title [http://www.string] into the shorthand or descriptor that my brain uses to think about it, you are forcing me to think the way that you do instead of the way that I do.
Why would you impose your personal views about hyperlinks on me, requiring me to adopt your philosophy about them, rather than supporting the underlying mission of WorkFlowy to help people organize their thoughts in the way that works for their brains?
Please. Please. You can reach out to me and I will beg you over the phone, or honestly I will come beg you on my knees in person if necessary. I first found WorkFlowy 8 years ago, couldn't remember the name for so long, and finally found it again last week, but this is the one issue that prevents me from doing a full migration and hooking my brain into WorkFlowy completely. Please.
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Can you explain?
I just tried the menus, the standard hotkey (ctrl-K), right click, [markup](http://likethis.com), and nothing worked. I don't see documentation either.
As far as I can tell it has not been implemented. -
SORDES, if you read the description at the top, it's saying that we want to be able to link to URLs without having to display the full URL. Say you didn't just want to go to example.com but example.com/here/is/a/very/long/path.html&q=12345678 It's ugly to have all that in your workflowy document. We want to be able to rename the text, which you can do even in this comment field, but not in workflowy. E.g. If you want a link to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wl3Ad_Y_izZM8J5UizPbAMuOZGpb2FzAZfbAJ-aU2Tc/edit#gid=779395260 we don't want that ugly long thing taking up space in the document. We want to be able to have just: mtg_cards. This is not available in workflowy right now.
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