Pasting text ignores indentation

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Simon

• August 15, 2018 18:58

On the new desktop version of Workflowy, pasting indented text like this:

- A

    - B

- C

...ignores the indentation and results in this:

- A

- B

- C

This is a regression; it used to work as expected.  I tested with both tab and space indentation.

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  AARON L ALBIN

  • August 17, 2018 01:13

  This feature has been available since 2012, and I use it every day, so a quick fix would be appreciated!

  I tested, and importing OPML and Formatted exports still works OK. It's just the plain text that has gotten messed up.

  For people looking for a temporary workaround, you can convert your plain-text to HTML, open it in a browser, and copy from there. Thus, the example in the original posting works if you do that after changing it into the following:

  <ul>
   <li>A</li>
   <ul>
    <li>B</li>
   </ul>
   <li>C</li>
  </ul>

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • August 21, 2018 00:10

  Our apologies. This is now fixed on beta.workflowy.com and will be pushed to production tomorrow. Thanks!

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  KENNETH M GREEN

  • September 16, 2023 23:06

  Went searching for this issue, and found this. Weird that it is reported as being fixed 5 years ago. Pasting plain text tabs (from a text editor) into Workflowy used to work as expected. It does not now. What happened?

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