disillusioned wrote:

I also don't
like that you can't select more than one line and that you can't cut &
paste anything other than one line of text.

Your wish has been granted :) And they've done a pretty good job of integrating it with all the other functions (moving, deleting etc.). Check out the video:

"New Feature: Select Multiple Lines in Your WorkFlowy Lists"

http://blog.workflowy.com/2014/07/10/new-feature-select-multiple-lines-in-your-workflowy-lists/

Dr Andus wrote:

Your wish has been granted :)

I saw, thanks! Now if they'd only implement hyperlinks....

It's already been mentioned, but might be worth pointing it out specifically once more, for the benefit of those who've been asking for an offline version of WorkFlowy, that such a thing now exists for Windows, Mac and Linux (besides the old Chrome App that continues to exist for Chromebooks):

https://blog.workflowy.com/2017/04/18/preview-the-workflowy-desktop-app/

There is quite a spirited discussion in the comments...

I tried the Windows version, and while it's fine, I still prefer to use the online version via the Chrome browser, on account of all the Chrome extensions and Stylish add-ons that add a lot of enhancements.

This is probably the most useful for those who don't have regular internet access or deliberately want to work offline, while still having access to WorkFlowy.

I don't care about a desktop app (I think they could have added offline support to the browser instead), but I was happy to see this from the developers in the comments:

Mobile is definitely more important in the big picture, and it will be getting a lot of love soon.

That’s good to hear!

For those using Stylish with WorkFlowy: there is a spyware-free fork available now called Stylus:

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/05/16/stylus-is-a-stylish-fork-without-analytics/

Apparently WorkFlowy has outgrown its database and moving to a new database model:

"WorkFlowy is close to outgrowing the largest single database on offer by Amazon Web Services, where we host the application. To deal with this we’ve been engaged in a pretty involved project to split all the data we store across many different databases."

http://blog.workflowy.com/2017/09/07/try-our-sweet-new-databases/

"We are sharding our database, which, for those of you who aren’t programmers, means splitting the data in our one big database out across many little databases. It’s a big deal, and a milestone for us that we’ve reached a scale where this is even needed."

https://blog.workflowy.com/2017/08/28/workflowy-outage-post-mortem/

Interesting...but have switched to Dynalist for the last year, and find I use it more and more. It has everything Workflowy promised, and more. Workflowy with its long period of inactivity strikes me as, if not being abandon ware, darn close to it.

With some long, complex outlines on varying subjects, I've found it really is beneficial to have more than one file.

Daly

Dr Andus wrote:

Apparently WorkFlowy has outgrown its database and moving to a new
database model:

"WorkFlowy is close to outgrowing the largest single database on offer
by Amazon Web Services, where we host the application. To deal with this
we’ve been engaged in a pretty involved project to split all the
data we store across many different databases."

http://blog.workflowy.com/2017/09/07/try-our-sweet-new-databases/

"We are sharding our database, which, for those of you who aren’t
programmers, means splitting the data in our one big database out across
many little databases. It’s a big deal, and a milestone for us
that we’ve reached a scale where this is even needed."

https://blog.workflowy.com/2017/08/28/workflowy-outage-post-mortem/

I switched over and it is super fast. I don't subscribe anymore but I still have a ton of text in there - around 10,000 bullets.

Dynalist is cool for sure, but it has always been slower at scale. Now it's even more of a difference.

Workflowy development seems to be out of hibernation, a couple of people hired and multiple updates recently about current development efforts.