Transclusion (Cloning/ Embedding) is here!

Completed
Follow
Avatar
Frank (Workflowy Support)
  • Edited

Transclusion/ Cloning/ Embedding is here! 

Please go along to beta.workflowy.com and activate the "Cloning" experimental feature in your Settings menu (and give us your feedback!!).

1. Clone any list by accessing the bullet items menu > Clone (or hit Alt+Shift+C).
2. The parent of any cloned list will have a diamond instead of a bullet point
3. What you write in one list will appear in all other clones.
4. With any cloned list, you can access the bullet items menu and at the top you will see Embedded node – view original. Click on the link to take you to the original if you wish.

There is a lot more planned for the implementation in general, in tandem with bi-directional links not too far from now. For instance, we're going to allow for embedding/ cloning/ transclusion via a / command.

 

 

12

Comments

16 comments

Sort by Date Votes
  • Avatar
    Dustin G

    YAYAYAYA!!

    iu

    Thank you!

    Can't wait to put this through it's paces. Excellent so far, thank you!

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Michael Miller`

    Fractal boards?  And now the testing phase of transclusion?  You guys are on fire!

    After testing for a few hours, it's working great.  I did notice that the cloned bullets don't have the typical box outline when in Kanban mode, but other than that, I haven't run across anything weird yet. 

     

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Michael Miller`
    • Edited

    Some thoughts after playing with it for a few hours:

    • I can't seem to "zoom in" to my cloned bullets.  I can create bullets under the clone, but I can't zoom into anything in the "clone tree".  Not sure if this by design or just a bug. 
    •  It would be nice if there was a quicker way to get back to the original bullet via hotkey.
    • It would be nice if you can create a clone via the mouse. 
    • I can totally see why side-by-side  "multi-pane" views would work well for this (allowing you to see context and quickly clone things to a calendar list/board from a project list/board etc.) .  
    • This completely revolutionizes the "Forever Calendar" kanban method - I can finally have a running daily to-do list full of disparate tasks, yet still have bullets that retain their context within a separate project list - Brilliant!
    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Neil
    • Edited

    I agree - you guys are on fire lately.

    The cloning feature is just what I was looking for. I can have one list item with multiple different contextual views such as project context view, priority/urgency view etc.

    Keep up the great work. 

    2
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Neil

    2. The parent of any cloned list will have a diamond instead of a bullet point

    Frank, it looks like it is the clone list that has a diamond. The parent list has a bullet point.

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Max Yakin Bozek

    This is amazing, Frank!!!

    This single feature just unlocked a myriad of new different possibilities in how to use WorkFlowy!!!

    This enables us to put the same one node in many different places now without having to deliver wherein our structure should be placed when its properties meet more than one possibility.

    Congratulations to the team for this new wave of radical improvements!!

    2
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Max Yakin Bozek

    Great decision for the bullet being replaced by a diamond to signal that a node is a clone!

    It is such a minimal and subtle design decision while being super-powerful in functionality.

    That idea of formal simplicity to achieve conceptual complexity is why we love WorkFlowy    :)

    2
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Frank (Workflowy Support)
    • Edited

    @Neil... you are spot on! I got text-twisted ;-)

    All fantastic suggestions... I'd love to invite everyone here to join the WorkFlowy Users Group on Slack if you are so inclined... the conversation was/ is quite extensive there: shoot me an email at help@workflowy.com

    You'll see the same/ similar requests and suggestions there (great minds think alike!)

    ~ Frank

     

     

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Bartosz Grabowski

    can't wait to see where /commands will take workflowy! <3

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    James Parrish

    So this is called Mirror now right?

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Frank (Workflowy Support)

    @James, Yes... Mirror now :-)

     

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    AaronWeeXunRong

    Definitely won me and a bunch of my friends over, looking forward to the slash commands and bi directional linking

    2
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Aleksander Chamielec

    this is amazing! I was day-dreaming about this feature yesterday and actually it's already here!

    thank you so much guys for all the great work!

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Metta L. Zetty

    Is there a limit to the number of mirrored lists we can have? 

    Also, what is the distinction (if any) between a duplicated list and a mirrored list?

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Frank (Workflowy Support)

    No limits. Incidentally, each mirrored outline counts as just one extra bullet.

    Yes... there is a distinction between a duplicated list and a mirrored list. Mirrored lists are live copies... what you change in one will change in others. Not so with duplicated lists. Duplicated lists are basically a copy-paste operation...

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Metta L. Zetty

    Great! Thanks so much for prompt feedback and helpful clarification.

    Much appreciated! :-)

    0
    Comment actions Permalink

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

New post