Perfecting Mirroring

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Jacob

• February 26, 2021 18:34

To dramatically boost the ease of mirroring, the move-to-another-node functionality that Frank has announced is coming will serve as inspiration for this final major improvement to mirroring -- an almost identical feature, mirror-to-another-node.

 

The ((referencing is cool functionality ... but 95% of the time I want the mirroring to be push, not pull -- to export a mirror of the current bullet to another place, not to import a bullet mirror that I previously logged elsewhere.

 

WorkFlowy's current UX is cumbersome enough that I don't foresee using it much:

 

 

It reminds me of Trello's functionality to move cards by cutting them (Ctrl + X), which is not much of a shortcut if you aren't moving the card to an adjacent list, but instead need to navigate to the exact spot within the byzantine labyrinth I've built within the web app where I want to "drop off" the copied card (via Ctrl + V) ... if I don't get distracted first and forget I copied it.

 

Thankfully, Trello offer a different and better way to move cards as well. When you open a card, you can click "move" to see this:

 

 

It's the kind of functionality that would be great inside WorkFlowy, and I hope y'all combine the clickless ease of pressing Cmd + X (metaphorically, obviously) with producing a navigable popover even easier than Trello's (as when [[linking in WorkFlowy, which is elegant!) to select where it's gonna be mirrored!

 

Thanks for considering. Other users' thoughts?

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • February 27, 2021 13:54

  All good thoughts, Jacob!

  Although, I would add that I don't have the ability to announce anything, ha! This is high up on our wish list, though :-)

   

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  Illya K

  • March 31, 2021 20:58

  Good example. Waitning for the new feature!

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  J S Cowperthwaite

  • April 05, 2021 10:09

  Agree that being able to push a mirror rather than pull would be very useful. Often the reason for wanting to mirror is for e.g. to add to 'my list' etc

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  François

  • May 20, 2021 11:47

  Please the same with [[links :-)

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  Andreas Kåll

  • May 28, 2021 09:36

  This! <3

  I love to organize my life using multiple "bins" or "feeds" to which i can push any items and lists. Tags are a way of doing this, but then I lack the ability to restructure and organize the item as I want to in that bin. The existing backlinks feature does this, BUT I would love for it not to show up as "1 Backlink" and then the location info etc. Would love it to just to function the same way as mirrors do already.
  
  And thank you so much for this amazing product and all the work and love you put into it!

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  Anne S Penniston

  • August 17, 2021 18:31

  Agreed! Push mirroring is much more useful to me than pull mirroring. The big thing I use Workflowy for is note taking and to-dos. When I'm in a meeting taking notes, if a to-do item comes up, I just tag it as a to do. Then I am able to filter a to do list of everything across all notes. But the problem is that because it is just a filtered list of to-do tags, I can't really organize the list. What I would like to do is mirror everything that is tagged to do into a designated to-do list. I could then organize this list using the board feature (something that I cannot do with a filtered view).

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