fictionic / workflowy-columns

a simple Chrome extension that lets you view your Workflowy lists as columns

Workflowy-Columns

A replacement for this Stylish user style, which no longer works after Workflowy changed how tags are encoded in the HTML. Pure CSS is no longer powerful enough on its own; we need a JavaScript kludge. So here we are.

In action:

Installation

Download this repository. If you downloaded it as a zip, unzip it. Navigate to chrome://extensions/, and make sure "Developer mode" is checked. Click "Load unpacked extension...", select the downloaded folder, and hit OK.

Usage

Include one of the tags #cols-2, #cols-3, etc. (up to #cols-6) in the name of a node to make its contents arrange into the desired number of columns. Columns can be nested. The view refreshes automatically. Changes to WorkFlowy's code make this not work anymore. Probably the switch to React. To update the view, simplly toggle the extension on and off by clicking the icon.

Click the extension icon to globally toggle columns functionality.

Issues

There are several. Off the top of my head:

• The order of the child nodes does not entirely determine which column they end up in; "bigger" nodes (with more visible children) can move siblings out of the way.
• The contents of a column-ified node scroll horizontally, which is annoying.
• The expand/collapse button doesn't show always show up properly.
• Sometimes the whole extension breaks, and needs to be restarted (I'm pretty sure this only happens when "zooming" in or out of a node).

Please report any additional issues here! (If it's about the script giving an error, please include the stack trace from the developer console.)

workflowy-columns's Issues

not displaying some items

Installed extension. However, my list is more than 500 items long. Using extension, Workflowy will only display 166 items, 83 on each column. Using #cols-3 will display even less items. Thanks.