Add Flatten Search

This is what I came here for. If I had a limited number of votes for features I’d throw them all in here! I was falling in love with Workflowy and all excited about creating the dashboard of my dreams and then the cluttered search results broke my heart :laughing:

That “search node” would be a veeeeery nice feature…. It would simply beat Obsidian with the dataview queries and convince me 100% to drop Obsidian for all

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For those comfortable with a CLI, consider:

$ workflowy search <search-term> --group-by=parent

or

$ workflowy search <search-term> --group-by=path

then paste the output into WorkFlowy (pipe to the copy buffer using pbcopy, clip, or wl-copy).

Grouping by the parent node produces results like this:

- [parent node](https://workflowy/...)
    - start text [match](https://workflowy/...) end text

Grouping by the path node produces results like this:

- [parent -3](https://workflowy/...) > [parent -2](https://workflowy/...) > [parent -1](https://workflowy/...)
    - start text [match](https://workflowy/...) end text

You can search with regular expressions too. And group by dates, change the sort order, etc…

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