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Posted by Gorski
Jun 28, 2020 at 11:17 PM
They haven’t written much about it publicly. I found out about it from a mention on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorkFlowy/status/1275205249549193223
There are barebones instructions on the settings page:
Link editor:
> We’ve all been on the edge of our seats… and finally it has arrived - a magnificent popup for editing your links! To activate it, hover over any link and then click on the icon that will appear. If you’re feeling keyboardish, hover over a link and hit Tab.
Mirror items:
> This lets you mirror items, you can have a single node in multiple places, search for related options in the item menu to discover that
Cloning is discussed on the forum:
There’s also a mention of plans for the link editor (and bi-directional linking) here:
https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360067774692-Bi-directional-linking
I’m not a part of this but there’s a Slack channel where things like this are discussed. From the forum:
> if you’d like to join the WorkFlowy Users Group on Slack (where we make early announcements of what we’re up to and releasing for testing), please shoot me an email at help@workflowy.com :-)
> ~Frank
Posted by Beck
Jun 29, 2020 at 03:30 AM
Very helpful, thanks!
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 16, 2021 at 05:23 PM
I haven’t had a chance to try this out yet, but this could possibly be a major step forward: wiki-like internal links and backlinks:
https://blog.workflowy.com/links-version-2/
I will have to take this for a spin before I can confidently say this is a game changer - in terms of WorkFlowy becoming more suitable for a wiki-like Zettelkasten and a real alternative to Roam, but I am intrigued, perhaps even a bit excited :-)
Posted by Chris Murtland
Dec 16, 2021 at 07:54 PM
I’ve tried it and I like it. There is *slightly* more friction than in something like Obsidian/Logseq, because you do have to search for where in the outline to add the item as you are creating it.
Despite that, I find it useful, and it closes a gap in how I would ideally use WorkFlowy. In fact, the power of the combination of mirrors, backlinks, freely creating new items “remotely,” and board views recently clicked for me. It’s a sort of BrainStorm/Ecco/ConnectedText mashup.
My understanding of what boards can be used for expanded a lot after I stumbled across these videos below. Boards combined with mirrors can be used to create dashboards/overviews of outlines/items from various other places in the master outline. In some ways, this just brings WorkFlowy up to date with what can be done with Notion, Obsidian, etc., but I always really liked the clean interface of WF and actually prefer the non-document approach, so I’m really glad to see more power being added.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8pCAZvJIBvJnW-f4tO3hXjIxZnVMNb13
Posted by Chris Murtland
Dec 16, 2021 at 08:01 PM
Also, WF’s links/backlinks indeed seems to work well for the daily log approach of Roam, where you freely outline in the daily note and link to other pages to collect those writings on the linked page.
Nice touches are that WF’s backlinks show a hierarchy breadcrumb trail over each backlink, you can move the backlinks up and down in the backlinks list, and you can expand/collapse the backlink items.