2025.8 – Patch notes

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date sorting blog

Hey there Workflowy folks, we have a bunch of nice updates for you this week. We hope you find them useful and look forward to more!

Improvements

  • Sorting now correctly recognizes dates at the start of bullets.
  • The Divider is bolder and easier to spot.
  • The Date Picker Range toggle respects your preferred week-start day.
  • Markdown paste now supports [ ] todo syntax.
  • You can now search for Dividers using is:divider .
  • Color highlighted text now exports with <mark> tags in OPML.
  • Completing a Mirrored bullet shows the satisfying completion animation.
  • Mentions no longer clutter your sidebar if you’ve turned that off in Settings.

Fixes

  • The ‘#template’ button no longer hijacks your cursor when arrowing past it.
  • You can’t Mirror or create Backlinks to the Home bullet anymore (for good reason).
  • The /template slash command now works on zoomed-in bullet titles.
  • Backlinks now behave on macOS 26.

Let us know what you think!

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Really love it that there is so much active development. Thanks guys!

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This is wonderful! One feature that would make a big difference is improved date recognition—specifically when typing at the start of a bullet point.

Let me explain:

If I have a bullet like:
Buy milk at the store
…and I want to prepend it with a date, I currently have to do the following:

  • Type “today”
  • Press space
  • Hit the left arrow
  • Delete the “y,” retype it
  • Press tab

Or—I’ve just realized a slightly better way:

  • Press the space bar
  • Hit the left arrow
  • Type “today”
  • Press tab

It would be amazing if the system could recognize a date even when typed directly in front of the text—like this:
todayBuy milk at the store (no space between)

That small enhancement would save me so many left arrow taps. I regularly add dates to completed tasks at work so I can sort them later—especially at the end of the year when I need to show what I’ve accomplished. Right now, each completion involves this small but repetitive bit of friction.

It’s probably a low-priority suggestion, but I figured it was worth sharing!

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Hello @cameronjpeterson.

Please check it out, is it what you meant?

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Yes! Exactly! How did you do this?

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Well, I just asked a programmer to write some code to make it work this way. It’s on its way to be released (we usually release on Tuesdays, but had a hiccup this week). You can also try it now on beta.workflowy.com.

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@anatoliy how did you put that date format with the week number?

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Based on the moment.js documentation, I suspect his custom date format (in settings) is [[]w[]] YYYY-MM-DD - dd. The w adds the week of the year. All the brackets are there to get [ and ].

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Yes.

And you can also escape the square brackets, this works too:

\[w\] YYYY-MM-DD - dd
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Thanks @anatoliy
is there a way to a a W (letter) before the week number?

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Yeah, you can escape the W:

\[\Ww\] YYYY-MM-DD - dd

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THANK YOU! Oh, this is soooo wonderful for me. I really appreciate your attention to this small detail!

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I have a question about date recognition!
What if I get a huge list from someone. Where each line begin with date in this format dd.mm.yyyy .

And I copy - paste it to my workflowy node. And workflowy didn’t recognize dates at all!

It’s look like just a text. Therefore found dates feature didn’t work.
How can I told to workflowy recognize this text as a date object?