Bug Report : Complete Loss of Styling and Syntax Leakage During Workflowy Export / Import (MD & OPML)

Overview

When exporting formatted nodes from Workflowy and re-importing the resulting files back into Workflowy, neither Markdown nor OPML preserves the original document formatting or rich-text styling. Re-importing content results in syntax corruption, stripped font colors, or lost highlights.

Impact

Workflowy cannot be reliably used to backup, restore, or transfer journals, databases, or reference materials without incurring permanent data loss or visual corruption.

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Here’s a side by side comparison to get an idea how bad this is it…

PS: it’s been like this for at least 1-1.5 years as I remember… I hoped somehow it will get fixed or upgraded…

PPS: Surprisingly enough I still have a 3 years old app version from 2023-2024, on my old 2015 macbook on macosx 10.13.xx that does the OPML export much much better if not perfect…

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