When to use

Slash commands in Workflowy give you quick access to powerful actions - right from the keyboard.

Just type / to bring up a menu where you can insert templates, set bullet types, add dates, apply formatting, and more.

It’s the fastest way to stay in flow, without lifting your hands off the keyboard or breaking your train of thought.

Do a slash command

You can perform a slash command anywhere as long as there is a space before the slash. The exception to this is if you perform the command at the beginning of a line, then no space is required.

Slash command types

This type of slash command allows you to change the type of the item into another type.

Currently, the following types are available: Board, Bullets, To-do, Heading 1, Heading 2, Paragraph

Slash command actions

This type of slash command allows you to perform some action on the current item.

“Add date” Lets you create a date tag

“Add note” Lets you add a note to the current item

“Complete” Completes the item

“Copy internal link” Copies a link to the current item you can then paste

“Delete” Deletes the current item

“Duplicate” Creates a duplicate of the item and tags it #copy

“Export” Displays the export menu for the item and its contents

“Mirror” Copies a mirror of the item that you can then paste

“Mirror Here…” Mirror an item located somewhere in your account to the current location

“Mirror To…” Mirror the current item and place it somewhere in your account

“Mirror to Today” Mirrors that item to today's date in your calendar

“Move Here…” Lets you move an item from another part of your account to the current location

“Move To…” Lets you move an item and its contents using the “MOVE TO” menu

“Move to Child” Move an item to the child of any item.

"Move to Date" Move that item to a specific date in your calendar

“Move to Today” Sends that item to today's date in your calendar

“Share” Lets you create secret link to the item or invite users by email

“Sort A-Z” Sorts the content alphabetically or numerically (smallest to largest, oldest to newest)

“Sort Z-A” Sorts the content in reverse alphabetical or numerical order(largest to smallest, newest to oldest)

“Upload file” Displays your operating system’s file explorer

AI powered commands

“AI Node” Opens up an inline AI chat with the nearby items as context

“AI: Draft an outline” Uses AI to draft an outline based on your content

“AI: Find tasks” Uses AI to find any tasks in the content

“AI: Fix spelling & grammar” Uses AI to fix any spelling or grammar mistakes in your content

“AI: Make shorter” Uses AI to condense your content

“AI: Summarize” Uses AI to summarize the content

“Chat about this” Opens up an AI chat with that item as context

Context specific commands

There are a couple of slash commands that can only be used in specific contexts and will not appear unless your cursor is in the right context.

**On a mirror bullet

“Detach mirrors” Detaches the mirror and turns it into a regular bullet**

“View mirrors” Shows a list of all the mirrors for that item

**In a board

“Insert column left” Inserts a blank column to the left of the current column**

“Insert column right” Inserts a blank column to the right of the current column

On a parent item (bullet that has indented items)

"Priority: Default to Bottom" New items sent here via commands or other means will be added to the bottom of the list

"Priority: Default to Top" New items sent here via commands or other means will be added to the top of the list