2025.6 - Add Dividers to break up long lists

Lists are great. We love lists. But long lists can be hard to read, and it’s easy to scroll away and lose your place.

Dividers help break things up. Use them to create visual sections, add a bit of structure, and make your notes easier to scan.

Type --- at the start of a bullet, use the /divider slash command, or select it from the bullet menu. They show up in exports and print-outs too.

Let us know what you think about this update or anything else you think we should know!

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This is a nice new addition!

I also appreciate that I’m able to turn off the “- - -” shortcut (by turning off the setting to automatically convert markup language), as for years I’ve been using that myself as a keyboard shortcut to insert my own manual version of a divider. Yours is prettier, but there are still times when I want my old school one instead of yours. :slight_smile:

One piece of feedback though: I noticed that when I’ve favorited a list that has dividers in it, in the sidebar it shows up as “Untitled” instead of displaying a divider there. It’s visually distracting and kind of defeats the purpose of using dividers to more clearly separate content — especially given how massively I rely on the favorites sidebar when interacting with & organizing my WF content. Hoping this will get fixed in the near future. Even displaying the three dashes shortcut there would be better than the extraneous text.

Thanks for continuing to make WF better and better!

Hi @kiziah,

Thank you for expressing all of this!

I believe we’ve fixed the “Untitled” bug and you should see it as a divider in your left bar. Are you seeing this currently?

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YES — so much better, thank you! Just loving this feature now!

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Will horizontal dividers and quotes ever be available to use inside nodes’ comments?

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I for one wouldn’t want notes to become a full-fledged outliner embedded inside a single node :sweat_smile: I love Workflowy’s simple model of “hierarchical bullet lists all the way down” and shed a tear whenever they add new features that deviate from this simple model :smiling_face_with_tear:

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