Workflowy CLI client

Add / inspect your Workflowy on the command line ✌🏼

Extension to ruix/workflowy and opusfluxus with the possibility to define aliases for nodes → easier access without remembering IDs 😄

Used in my Workflowy Telegram bot.

usage: wf <command> [<args>]

The commands currently available are:

 tree n                     print your workflowy nodes up to depth n (default: 2)
   [--id=<id/alias>]           print sub nodes under the <id> (default: whole tree)
   [--withnote]                print the note of nodes (default: false)
   [--hiddencompleted]         hide the completed lists (default: false)
   [--withid]                  print id of nodes (default: false)

 add                        add something to a particular node
    --parentid=<id/alias>       36-digit uuid of parent (required) or defined alias
    --text=<str>                what to actually put on the node (required)
   [--priority=#]               0 as first child, 1 as second (default 0 (top))
                                    (use a number like 10000 for bottom)
   [--note=<str>]               a note for the node (default '')

 alias                      list all curretnly defined aliases

 alias add                  add new alias
    --id=<id>                   36-digit uuid to alias (required)
    --name=<alias>              name to give the alias (required)

 alias remove               remove existing alias
    --name=<str>                name to give the alias (required)

 common options             options to use on all commands
    [--telegramoutput]         format output to use in telegram bot

opusfluxus

NodeJS wrapper for WorkFlowy. Created for integration with Complice, a productivity app that's less "what are all the parts of this thing I have to do?" and more "what am I going to do today?"

This is super early stage! Currently the main advantages it has over the original are:

• it has a primitive command-line interface
• it supports creating new nodes, which allows you to easily capture items to your workflowy :D
• it supports auth by sessionid cookie, meaning you don't need to store the user's password in plaintext anywhere. highly recommended (EDIT: it seems the original might allow this using some sort of "cookie jar", but I don't know how that's supposed to work.)

Also this project is in JavaScript, so if you prefer that to working in CoffeeScript, you've come to the right place.

Install to your node project

npm install --save opusfluxus

Install as a command-line tool

sudo npm install --global opusfluxus

wf # run this once to ensure you're authenticated

Usage as a command-line tool

Currently only has two features. One is to print your list (wf tree 1 prints just top-level nodes, wf tree 2 prints those and their children, etc) and the other is to append datapoints to a given node:

Print tree

Thanks to sujunmin this now has a bunch of options:

tree [n]             print your workflowy nodes up to depth n (default: 2)
  --id=<id>            print sub nodes under the <id> (default: whole tree)
  --withnote           print the note of nodes (default: false)
  --hiddencompleted    hide the completed lists (default: false)
  --withid             print id of nodes (default: false)

Capture/append

Use Workflowy for tasks but wish you had a quicker way to capture things to your inbox? Now you can do that! Well, it takes a little set-up, but once you've got it it's awesome.

The command is capture, and here's the spec:

capture            add something to a particular node
   --parentid=<id>      <36-digit uuid of parent> (required)
   --name=<str>         what to actually put on the node
  [--priority=#]        0 as first child, 1 as second (default 0 (top))
                            (use a number like 10000 for bottom)
  [--note=<str>]        a note for the node (default '')

wf capture --parentid "<36-digit uuid>" --priority=0 --name ""

How to get the parentid:

• go to Workflowy
• right-click on the circle to the left of the node you want to add children to
• click Inspect
• then you'll see an element called <div class="project" projectid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000">
• that 36-digit id is the parentid you want.

Priority = 0 (which is default) inserts the item at the top. You can use a very big number to force it to submit at the bottom instead.

I have the following in .bash_aliases, which allows me to instantly capture any todo to a node appropriately called inbox.

alias win="wf capture --parentid='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' --name"

So then I just open terminal and type `win "1) call Benjamin #thursday"

Oh, and by the way, that task then gets automatically pulled onto thursday's todo list, thanks to Complice.