Monday, June 29, 2026

How to retain the indentation when pasting a copied Workflowy list into another application

 A Workflowy list will usually have bullet point at varying levels (level 1; level 2  ....). Very often, when copied and pasted into another app, the bullets and the indentation will disappear, so that there will be no difference between the levels. As a result, the levels will not work. 

To work around this problem: 

1. Do not copy from Workflowy, Instead, click on the 3 dots next to the parent bullet, and choose Export. 

2. Choose MARKDOWN. 

3. The whole list will now show ordinary word processing format, with all bullets (Level 1; Level 2 ...) beginning with a hypen, and each level 2 INDENTED. 

4. Then, copy this formatted list, and paste it into the target app (e.g., Padlet; Gemini)

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