The new ‘+’ buttons next to headers in the sidebar seem to serve the same purpose, anyway. There’s a persistent toolbar spanning the bottom of the screen that only has three buttons in it, can we just get the Home button back where it used to be? Personally I don’t understand why the big ‘+’ button is even there, there’s no equivalent in the desktop app and I never use it because I’m usually adding items at the end of a list. (Except as with the navigation section, even that won’t reliably be in the same location if I have scrolled the sidebar view.) – I though adding ‘Home’ to my starred pages might be an adequate workaround, but it seems we still cannot re-order starred pages? Do I have that right? So it seems the best I could do is to wipe out all my starred pages, recreate them with ‘Home’ at the top of the list, which would still mean my best way to get ‘Home’ is to tap a button in extreme left-bottom corner or the screen, then tap a button in the extreme left-top corner of the screen. – The navigation breadcrumb on top of the screen isn’t helpful for this, because (unlike on desktop) ‘Home’ scrolls off-screen once you get more than one or two levels deep. If it was tappable, it would at least be somewhat ergonomically-convenient as it’s near the bottom of the sidebar where the hamburger button is, except it’s never going to be in the same place if I actually make use of the sidebar navigation and scroll/expand views therein. – At first I thought the new ‘Home’ header for the navigation section of the sidebar might serve a similar purpose, but this header is the one entry in the navigation list that *can’t* be tapped to browse to it. But now I don’t seem to have any convenient way to get to my top-level lists, though I’ve tried to figure out several alternatives: I see the utility of the sidebar for reorganizing lists, but that’s something I do far less frequently than referencing my top-level lists (and would probably always elect to wait and do so on the desktop app, anyway). Now, that button has been removed and the ‘Sidebar’ hamburger button has taken its place. There used to be a ‘Home’ button in the bottom corner that made this dead simple, from any view in the app. I didn’t bother to pipe up when that feature rolled out because I was hopeful there would be some refinements in subsequent updates or I would discover some trick I overlooked, but unfortunately the rollout of the sidebar has massively broken Workflowy’s utility for me.Ĭlearly I’m in the minority, but I use the iOS app 90% of the time, and the backbone of my workflow is being able to quickly navigate back to the Home screen, where I have all my most-commonly used lists and tags organized in a way that makes sense for me. To be fair this comment really belongs on the ‘Fancy New Left Bar’ post, but comments there have been closed. I’m sure this is nice for desktop users, but as someone who mostly uses the iOS app I need to voice my frustration at the recent changes to Workflowy that mostly or only benefit desktop users, whilst functionality has been crippled on mobile.
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