A Plea for Flat Search Results

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Zee M Kane

• August 08, 2018 15:14

I've been using Flatflowy, a bookmarklet for Workflowy to flatten search results into one list, but unfortunately it's become a bit unreliable.

This is a plea to have this feature built into Workflowy. I realise this sounds dramatic but it's proven to be such an incredibly useful feature, and with no response on Twitter to my request, I'm left begging on here :)

When searching for items across multiple lists, being able to see a neatly ordered single list of all the items is priceless. Being able to reorder them would be even better but I'd be more than satisfied with just producing a single list of search results.

Thanks.

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  Adam Pearson

  • August 12, 2018 10:13

  Flat search results with reordering would help significantly with long-form writing. It would allow us to use tags to draw together text from disparate locations, reorder to suit, and export.

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  Jen Toksvig

  • August 22, 2018 10:49

  This! I desperately want this. Am finding it really challenging having 'to do' lists that show me the whole family tree of everything.

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  MR G R LEEMAN

  • September 05, 2018 21:11

  The number one feature I wish workflowy had!

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  George Jardim

  • November 21, 2018 11:52

  This would be the single greatest enhancement to WorkFlowy! At present a search, or clicking on a tag to refine what you’re looking for produces a very confusing view.  If WorkFlowy is about making sense out of many different types of information, then this is the big one!  If Workflowy could also sort the resulting view, that would be even better!

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  Stefan

  • March 10, 2019 21:54

  I strongly support this suggestion. Am using WorkFlowy for a short while only (regularly) but you already find me here on the forum asking for this feature... :-)

  Thanks for listening!

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  James Strupp

  • March 11, 2019 17:07

  Plus one this.  Having any way to reduce the "clutter" of search results (Including also a Ctrl+F "find" function, like in a browser), would really make the search function many times more useful.

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