So if the ‘removing of dashes’ feature I mention above is implemented, perhaps the program could also look for ‘asterisk+space’ or ‘plus sign+space’. While it’s always a good idea to leave the user’s content as untouched as possible, if every line of content (after the whitespace) begins with a dash and then a space, it’s fully redundant and therefore it’s probably safe to assume the user wouldn’t mind if these dashes were automatically stripped out for them.Īlso, note that Markdown syntax allows for not only dashes but also asterisks (*) and plus signs (+) to mark the beginning of lines: From a design standpoint, this means Workflowy kind of conflicts with itself. If you import this back in, it does indeed retain the hierarchy, but then you have to manually delete these dashes. If you export a node out of Workflowy as plain text, it indents levels of the hierarchy not only by spaces in multiples of two – 2/4/6/8/etc.) and marks each bullet with a dash (-).

Now for one thing on the more technical side that I noticed:Īfter a bit of testing, it looks like the way it understands the hierarchy coming from plain text is based on the whitespace at the leftmost edge of each line, e.g.

Excellent! Now I’m an even bigger fan than ever.

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