Unlink Hyperlinks

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theAdhocracy

• June 22, 2022 16:30

Whilst the UX of being able to type/paste a link into Workflowy and have it magically convert into an actual hyperlink is generally great, there are many times when it would be useful to be able to remove or undo this behaviour.

Ideally, an "unlink" option would be added to the existing dialogue when you right-click a link, and preferably enhance the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut to "undo" an automatic hyperlink (this seems to be a common pattern across a lot of similar text editing interfaces).

Examples of unwanted links:

• Technical documentation that includes object-model notation such as `document.id`
• Notes that include example URLs, particularly where aspects like URL parameters are being discussed (e.g. API documentation, site mapping, content design)
• Filenames where extensions match up with TLDs (e.g. vector-file.ai)
• Notes around dangerous or malicious sites (which now become clickable links; not ideal)
• Code snippets

I'm aware this issue has been raised before (How to cancel automatic hyperlinks and Link dropdown doesn't contain the unlink button), both of which contain notes that this has been raised with developers, but I don't see an actual Feature Request for it. (Apologies if this is considered a duplicate of Improve behaviour of hyperlinks... but the conversation there seemed more focused on other aspects of that request.)

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  Ted M. Young

  • July 18, 2022 19:20

  I keep running into this, because, like Murray, technical documentation/notes tend to have lots of embedded dots, e.g., "System.in", which look like links, but shouldn't be a hyperlink. Being able to undo that, or turn off auto-hyperlinking altogether would be really helpful.

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  Miguel

  • July 30, 2022 08:34

  I second this request. Not being able to unlink/control the creation of links is driving me nuts.

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  KAMIL VLČEK

  • August 03, 2023 09:29

  I am not able to remove the link I have created and even a link that was automatically created by Workflowy. When I try to modify and remove the link in this way, the Apply button does not work.

   

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