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Alexander Lunden

• September 20, 2018 13:13

I have the client pinned to the taskbar in windows. But each time i update workflowy this pin is lost and i have to pin it again. Not that big deal but a bit annoying. 

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • September 20, 2018 20:54

  A good point. We'll add it to our lists to see what we can do about that.

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  M. van Schaik

  • July 09, 2020 08:14

  This also started to annoy me recently. Found this topic, +1!

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  M. van Schaik

  • November 04, 2020 09:15

  Still have to pin workflowy after every update. And since you update the app OFTEN, the process of pinning the app over and over again is starting to feel like a standard procedure. Though this feels like some low hanging fruit that you can fix. Reducing little annoyances like this really can make a difference in how a program is valued...

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • November 05, 2020 17:50

  Hi M,

  Thank you for weighing in here! 

  Although this may seem like low-hanging fruit, in reality it is a rather complex conundrum that goes to the heart of Windows' OS and the desktop app platform we're using. We are trying to find a solution... 

   

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  George B Milner Jr

  • June 13, 2021 17:58

  This is still an issue...seems to require it to be "re-pinned" frequently. Please fix this.

  Thanks.

  George

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  Marek Cevelicek

  • July 15, 2021 15:30

  This would resolve my recent pain. Still an issue and very annoying

  Thank you. Marek

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  Richard Russell

  • September 30, 2021 14:16
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  This is a bizarre issue. Why does it keep disappearing. No other app does this, and I especially need workflowy accessible to fit into my workflow... it's ironic, but surely this is nearly trivial to fix.

  Yes, I see Frank above claiming it's complex, but why is it that every single other application works perfectly fine and Workflowy is weird. It's not as if you are doing anything special here. Is it just that you've chosen a bad desktop wrapper app and need to wrap the wrapper (or change the wrapper)?

  Is a workaround to have workflowy start on boot? Or does that fail with the same frequency?

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  Richard Russell

  • September 30, 2021 14:38

  I'm experimenting with creating a batch file with the contents:

   

  START "" "C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Local\Programs\WorkFlowy\WorkFlowy.exe"
  exit

   

  And adding this to the start-up folder for Windows in the hope that Windows will at least start workflowy automatically on boot, and this file should persist even if workflowy updates itself and unpins...

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  George B Milner Jr

  • September 30, 2021 14:51

  Richard,

  That would be great if it works (as long as it doesn't require a login each time).

  Let us know what you find.

  Thanks,

  George

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • September 30, 2021 15:58
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  Hi folks! The team has grown somewhat over the last while and we may have the resources to get to the bottom of this. I've asked the developers to look into this!

  REF: https://workflowy.phacility.com/T1915

  (Internal link)

   

   

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  Richard Russell

  • October 01, 2021 06:08
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  I haven't tested with a Workflowy update (won't be long though, I'm sure), but my workaround sort of works.

  When I start up, Workflowy starts up too. And it starts because of a batch file that should not change when Workflowy updates. 

  When it starts, it appears in the taskbar as a running program. I've now unpinned it, because it's always running, because I don't close it.

  So it sort of solves the problem, at least for my usecase  (always having workflowy available).

   

  Of course, it's a kludge, and I get a grey windows terminal pop up when the batch file executes, and it's not robust - but it's more robust than Workflowy unpinning itself, and means I never need to start it myself... it's always ready..

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  George B Milner Jr

  • October 01, 2021 13:43

  Richard, great idea. Until it's fixed, this will keep it running.

  Frank, Thanks for the info...That would be great. Keep us updated. This one's been around for a while.

  George

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