Multiple tabs and windows in Mac/Windows App
The desktop app is nice to have, but I sorely miss having many views on my outline through multiple windows and tabs. Especially when working across many Spaces, it is very frustrating to have Workflowy confined to a single desktop.
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I only use the desktop app for offline. If you have Chrome installed you can use:
⋮ > More Tools > Create shortcut (check Open in Window)to create distraction-free windows (actually cleaner than the app) that you can Ctrl/Cmd+Tab to your heart's content... and open and tile as many windows as you desire. And you get access to whole bunch of other good stuff too: Spellcheck, find on page, extensions...
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You can (and I do) use regular browser windows, but:
- You can’t use these offline
- They don’t appear as a separate app or have the clear WorkFlowy icon, in the system app switcher
- This is just needlessly confusing for users
This is a workaround, not a solution or reason not to enrich the official app.
Also, we should ask for the official apps to support extensions and scriptability rather than just giving in and using Chrome. (This should apply on mobile, too, where browser extensions aren’t a real option in the standard browsers, but could easily be supported by the customized browser of the official WorkFlowy app.)
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Yes, it would indeed be fantastic to have tabs in the app as well as in the browser version. I am long-time user of Task Paper, which seems to be the app from which Workflowy took a lot of its inspiration, and the tabs function in the app is extremely useful (The only reason I switched from TP to Workflowy is that TP does not have an iOS version).
Having to switch to the Browser version when you want a tabbed workspace seems to me to be a workaround as well.
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I have similar issue with the web version. I would like to open workflowy twice with different foucs. Now moving points from one worklfowy-tab to the other would be great. Probably it could be done inside one browser-tab, where workflows itself supports two tabs. Think of as the good old "Norton Commander" ;-)
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Hi folk,
Check out @rawbytz's WFx Chrome extension. One of its core features gives you "list jumping"...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wfx/jbehgpdjkcconnaagjhddddfdajbpfhi
Here's a screencast to demonstrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaeNtq9MoY
This has all but eliminated the need for having multiple tabs open. You think of a list and you jump there at will. WorkFlowy also remembers your cursor position in each list you visit... so jumping between lists is the same as jumping between tabs... actually, quicker.
While you're at it, here's a playlist for a range of other WFx features:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgi2Y4JImXPhCPhtAILbNRzci-X4w1MKT
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When I do outlines for my pieces of long writing, I enjoy creating an Workflowy outline/structure in a window to the right, while having access to the reference material on the left (I'm coping and pasting the parts I want to use from the reference to the outline). As of today, I have to be online to be able to use two windows, for the same reasons Jonathan Ragan-Kelley pointed out above.
Would be VERY nice to be able to right-click on a node and choose "open in separate window" in the desktop app. Please, please, please....
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Thank you for waiting, Oleg :-)
If you'd like to have an indication of what we're working on, you can (1) take a look at the experimental/ Labs features in your Settings menu, (2) Join the WorkFlowy Users Group on Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/workflowyusergroup/shared_invite/zt-s867uw4j-hxIqSvU7n6e7gXKwpjVWbw ... or (3) follow the WorkFlowy bog: blog.workflowy.com.
Currently we're building color implementations... and then we may focus on "Search nodes"
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Hi Jim!
You can stay posted on what we're working on next here:
https://workflowy.com/updates/
Here's our recent blog post on how we're going to be tackling development:
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I've found that there are currently several threads asking for almost the same features with different names. If all of these messages were merged in only one thread it would be the number one request by far! See some of these in the links below:
Even better than this would be the ability to have different panels and side-by-side views, as requested in all these other threads:
Workflowy Tabs on Desktop → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360002842186-Workflowy-Tabs-on-Desktop
Two-column view → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000657306-Two-column-view
Side-by-side view → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360077242352-Side-by-side-view
Split-screen → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360072135752-Split-screen
Multiple-panes → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4567356459028-Multiple-panes
Multiple tabs and windows in Mac/Windows App → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047791331-Multiple-tabs-and-windows-in-Mac-Windows-App
etc.
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