August 13, 2025. Patch Notes

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  • The status bar text color now properly switches to white when iOS is in dark mode and Workflowy’s theme is set to “System”.

  • The dd D.M.Y format is correctly recognized when entering a date (let us know if you have trouble entering dates with other formats)

  • The ability to paste internal links over selected text is restored.

  • “file.md” is no longer auto-linked unless it has a protocol. You’ll need to manually unlink existing “file.md” links.

  • Numbered reference lines like [1] see source are now preserved when pasted — WorkFlowy no longer treats them as completed Markdown todos.

  • Pasting links over selected text in code blocks now correctly replaces the text with the link.

  • When you create a board, a blank child bullet is now added automatically so it looks like a proper board from the start.

  • You can now uncheck Window > Quick Add in the desktop app to disable the global quick-add function and release its hotkey.

  • WorkFlowy no longer leaves behind a ghost process after being closed — fixes an issue where the app wouldn’t relaunch unless the lingering process was manually killed or the system was rebooted.

  • Pasting code from the Gemini editor (and potentially others) no longer results in weird empty lines.

  • The ability to turn bits of text into inline code snippets has been restored, both via the hotkey and the context menu.

  • It used to be tricky to get back to editing your search after selecting a sub-filter. Now, you can just click the search text to close the sub-menus and keep typing.

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Thank you, @rodolfo for this and all the recent patch updates. It’s fun to see the progress and I get reminded of better ways to run my day in WorkFlowy.

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Great stuff, thanks!

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these changes do not appear in the “what’s new” section of the workflowy app, is that on purpose? The most recent update I see is from Jul 29th

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We’re working on reorganizing this a little bit. That’s why you’re not seeing the latest patch notes in the app. But we should get that sorted out sometime soon.

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why is file.md a hyperlink in this post?

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That’s just how the system we use for this forum handles things it thinks are links - so the same issue we had in Workflowy!