How do I convert textual date to a Workflowy date object?

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I have a question about date recognition!
What if I get a huge list from someone. Where each line begins 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 looks like just text. Therefore, the found dates feature didn’t work.
How can I tell Workflowy to recognize this text as a date object for the whole list?

PS: I already asked about it here, but nobody answered.

2

I don’t know of a good way. If you put the cursor after dd.mm.yyyy and press Space, Backspace, Tab it will turn into a date object, but that’s pretty tedious.

3

Doesn’t seem to be a way to do it upon paste. If you are comfortable with text manipulation and APIs, you could go through each line of your text on clipboard, find the date, convert if necessary and wrap as per [2026-01-27].

Then, if you loop through your text, you could create each bullet using the API and that would create proper, parsed dates in Workflowy based upon the date in brackets.

4

Thanks!
Your approach looks much better than manual editing!

5

Thanks, I know about this trick!
But my list is too long to edit manually.