A Plea for Flat Search Results

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Ziad Muhmood

• 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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  Miss Jenifer D 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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  Alexandra Scher

  • December 30, 2019 22:58

  PLUS ONE!!! PLEASE

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  Anton

  • September 09, 2020 13:32

  +1
  This would help so much organise the "Today" view I wish WorkFlowy had. Non-flat search results are too clumsy for that but this would solve the problem.

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  James Strupp

  • September 09, 2020 16:02

  I want to support this +1 also. I still wish a simple Ctrl+F find on my search results and in main WorkFlowy Home was available. I still find search results to be a confusing interface. By Browser has Ctrl+F for every page and I rely on it constantly. Plus One again on this feature please. Thanks...

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  George Jardim

  • September 09, 2020 16:43

  Just to reinforce what I’d said 2 years ago: "...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!".  Come on WF team, this is going to be great for you, and us users too.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • September 11, 2020 00:38

  Hi folks! We will get flat search in the form of "Search nodes". This is on our road map... but we first have to knock out bi-directional linking, document attachemnts (including images), color and a mobile revamp ;-) 

   

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