Saved searches as items
Has any thought been made toward making saved searches themselves items?
i.e., An item like "? #todo" would have as children all your todos.
In my opinion, this behaviour would let Workflowy better mirror how we tend to think; items belong to multiple hierarchies depending on how you look at things. For instance, in one section, "Log", I might record my work chronologically every day, tagging items #todo or #note or #person or #question as I go; but later, when I want to look at everything I need to do, I might go through another section, "To do" (or ? #todo). When I'm trying to think of who I've met that might be able to help me with a task, I'd go to "? #person".
But that's just for the "Work" section of my list. For the "Personal" section, I might want another whole set of saved searches. That bookmark/saved searches list is getting pretty cluttered.
Why put saved searches in a separate, limited list when the whole application is the greatest list ever made?
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I did some poking around for something similar to Workflowy with transclusion and found a fairly new project in beta called Roam Research. Not as refined, by any means, but it does a nice job of matching Workflowy's capabilities and adding a few more, including transclusion and several types of linking. I could see them really eating Workflowy's lunch in a few years unless the Workflowy team finally figures out they're still a few features short of really covering the essentials.
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Ah, thank you for commenting that! Some form of transclusion is exactly what I am looking for, just didn't know the term. I guess you can just call this post (and my other one on inheriting tags) my suggestion of one potential implementation that fits into the current Workflowy norms/philosophy, where tags seem to be the go-to suggestion for implementing a very limited form of transclusion.
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