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Pierre Ester

• March 09, 2020 11:39

Hello,

Since there are virtually no dates features in Workflowy, I use tags, which I update daily, weekly or monthly.

I usually have hundreds of items under a tag. At the moment I have to manually replace each of them, but I was trying to use a Find & Replace extension in Firefox to do this. It doesn't work because it only finds the items visible on-screen and after replacing, the edits don't get saved.

Could you please integrate this feature? I imagine it would be useful to anyone with large lists.

Thank you!

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • March 09, 2020 19:39

  Hi Pierre,

  We will inevitably build a find-and-replace feature into WorkFlowy... but for now, 2 interesting points:

   

  1. WorkFlowy recently came out with a dates feature, which can be activated in your Settings menu:

  https://blog.workflowy.com/2019/12/30/dates-in-workflowy-try-it-out/

  2. There is a fantastic find-and-replace bookmarklet that should work in any browser:

  https://blog.workflowy.com/2018/09/13/find-and-replace/

   

  ~ Frank

   

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  Pierre Ester

  • March 10, 2020 09:42

  Excellent! Love these features, thanks for shedding a light!

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  ICT World Policy P M

  • August 02, 2020 15:34

  This maybe just my own lack of expertise but I don't understand how one is supposed to install this. The instructiions say drag the link to the bookmark bar. Using Chrome and Windows 10 this doesn't work. 

   

  The instructions are: 'Go ahead, install this bookmarklet… which takes you to here: https://rawbytz.github.io/find-replace/.... for installation

  Installation: Drag this link to your bookmarks bar.....

  Does that mean save the link destination as a bookmark....how's that supposed to work?  

  It just takes you back to this page....?  https://rawbytz.github.io/find-replace/#installation-drag-this-link-to-your-bookmarks-bar

  which is just circular...

  What am I missing?

   

   

   

   

   

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  Pierre Ester

  • August 03, 2020 10:18

  Hi,

  You just need to make sure your bookmarks bar is visible, either on Chrome or Firefox, then drag and drop:

   

  

   

  Then, when you go to Workflowy, all you need to do is type the term you want to replace in the search bar and the Find/Replace dialogue will pop up:

  

  Hope this helps :)

   

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  rawbytz

  • August 03, 2020 19:53

  There have been instances in some browsers (old versions of Safari for example) where you can't drag bookmarklets.  Here's the workaround:

  1. Create a regular bookmark to any webpage in the bookmarks bar.
  2. Right click the bookmarklet link > Copy link address (or similar)
  3. Edit your regular bookmark, rename as "find/replace" or "F/R".
  4. Replace the URL field with your clipboard

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  James Strupp

  • October 15, 2020 18:35

  Plus +1 here for a Find/Replace function within the app and the Windows application. I know it's on the roadmap. Just voting on the desire for this because it is so helpful in tag management and other finding tasks.

  Thanks for the web workaround for now.

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  Johann

  • June 18, 2021 12:18

  Same here, been using the bookmark tool, but would love the find and replace function so much!!!

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  Jonathan March

  • February 22, 2022 17:54

  Bookmarklet works great on Edge in Windows.

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  Aaron J Pastor

  • June 03, 2022 01:38

  Hi Workflowy,

  How much closer are we to "inevitably"? 

  Thank you.

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • January 01, 2023 19:44

  A native "Find and replace" engine is one of the essential features WorkFlowy is still lacking.

  • Find and replace for the bullets data
  • also for the text in the notes (cmd+shift notes)
  • and super necessary for renaming and merging tags!

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • January 01, 2023 20:04

  Duplicated request threads for if you want to upvote the other conversation as well:

  Find-and-replace → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360058359492-Find-and-replace

  Search-and-replace-as-in-Microsoft-word → https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043242892-Search-and-replace-as-in-Microsoft-word-

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