Code Formatting
As a user of the native apps, I'd love a built in way to show code formatting, since I use WorkFlowy in the context of software development.
Also, I sometimes write strings that use a hash but aren't meant to be tags, so having this type of option would be most appreciated.
Something like Markdown's backtick options would make a lot of sense and be something that anyone could do.
`inline code here`
```
Code Block here
```
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There is a newer competing app – Notion – which has been vying for my attention. I love the simplicity of Workflowy, but I too use it for software and not having the code block support in Workflowy feature has been a thorn in the side for a while now. I hope this gets addressed so that I don't have a reason to explore elsewhere.
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@Gene,
> Thanks for the news that feature requests here are not as important.
Quite the opposite. 100% of feature requests are logged on an internal board – whether they are from the forum, twitter, the Slack group or the help desk. I simply clarified that requests here are not the sum total and thus it cannot be assumed that if a request is the top request in the forum that it is necessarily the top feature request in general.
You're speaking to someone who advocates for this very feature. And the team in general would love to build everything all at once, however, most of our team resides in the Ukraine and are thus beset with extenuating circumstances that do no allow us to do so.
> help desk: I would not have thought to clutter that with feature requests. Good to know you prioritize that above the forums
I think there are a lot of assumptions here. There is one person who gets their eyes on all incoming communication. Just one person. And that person is myself. I look at all requests every day and log them. There is no prioritizing one channel above another. ALL requests are logged and looked at as a whole.
Let me shout it from the rooftops: WE WOULD GENUINELY LOVE TO HAVE CODE BLOCKS AND RECOGNIZE THE NEED! However, we cannot commit to a time frame.
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Also, the ability to set monospaced font in only just some selected bullets would be quite useful
especially when imputing numbers, prices, dates, article codes, etc.In this regard, I believe this other feature request is related to this one:
https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360072675332-Fixed-width-font-option-for-notes -
My whole professional life is in WorkFlowy, apart from all-important code snippets (with basic layout). They are so essential to me, that the lack of this feature keeps forcing me at least partially back to applications like Notion and Walling, breaking my workflow(y). This is really a major limitation for so many of your professional users, as the previous comments have shown. Dear team, you've done such a brilliant job so far, could you please make this one of your top priorities?
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Thanks for the news that feature requests here are not as important. Would be nice to have a single feature request location so that users could vote in a consistent manner, or even know which avenue “counts”. That is pretty common for apps with active user bases. To be clear IMHO:
- Slack: requires a total commitment to follow in any way and is a waste of time for someone who wants a tool to use not a hobby to follow. If that is the main source of feature requests it is not surprising that collaboration issues are totally dominating your current roadmap.
- help desk: I would not have thought to clutter that with feature requests. Good to know you prioritize that above the forums
- Twitter: is a narcissist’s s*&thole that I will not swim in for any tool or product. If I have to go there in order to interact with a you it is not going to happen.
Code blocks are a super basic functionality for any product of this type. It doesn’t matter if I can collaborate with a team if it is impossible to use equations (LaTex) or share/post code.
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@Alessandro, do you have an ETA that you'd like to aim for?
I am just a user, like you, so I don't have any particular insight. However, Jesse mentioned the following on Slack, about a month ago:
It is absolutely 100% planned. It’s really blocked only by an extension system for textual entities, which we’ve been working toward. This and many different types of text formatting (you could imagine markdown working the same way it does in slack now, where it gets replaced on the fly)
So, no ETA, but it's planned. (And about the lack of an ETA, it might be better this way: as much as I'd like to have this feature, I'm willing to wait a bit longer if the WorkFlowy team needs more time to implement the underlying infrastructure so it can handle other similar cases, to improve on a recently released feature, or deal with some other priorities.)
-Alex
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Thanks for such a great product and all the constant improvements! I'm a project manager for a dev team at a university in MA. I currently use WF for some project notes and brainstorming. This is the one feature that is preventing us from adopting WF as our main knowledge-base across the institution. Would LOVE to see it addressed in some way. The approach described by Michael Engard above would be perfect. We just need some way to store commands+code that is legible.
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This is one of the most upvoted requests on Workflowy
This has been the most upvoted feature request for a while now, yet it's not even up for consideration on their road map yet :(
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