1. Zoom on a bullet.
2. Click on the sortWF bookmarklet or use the keyboard shortcut script.
3. Select a sort button and your list is automagically sorted.
Details, Schmeetails…
- Only the zoom level children are sorted.
- Grandchildren stay with their parents, but are not sorted.
- Completed children are sorted, even when hidden.
- Short lists will sort instantly. Lists of 100s of children may take a few seconds.
- After sorting is complete, a banner message confirms the sort.
- Undo the sort using WorkFlowy’s undo icon or keyboard shortcut.
- For transparency, the bookmarklet will not sort if search is active.
- To limit the load on WorkFlowy’s servers, the maximum number of children that can be sorted is 400.
Installation
- Go here for the bookmarklet you can drag to your bookmarks bar.
- To use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shft+S, you need a script manager like Tampermonkey, and then install this script.
Happy sorting, WorkFlowians!
rawbytz 
Bookmarklet doesn’t seem to be working.
I see the following error in the console:
ncaught ReferenceError: search is not defined
at sortMe (:1:1423)
at :1:2399
sortMe @ VM870:1
(anonymous) @ VM870:1
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Thanks for the feedback. This is a known issue; WorkFlowy made changes to their code base which broke the bookmarklet. I am communicating with them, and I’m hopeful the bookmarklet will work again in a future WorkFlowy release. Estimate a 1-2 weeks.
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Works as advertised. Excellent add-in. Thank you so much for your effort!
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Appears to also sort nimerically.
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Need to proofread my voice to text. Should read “numerically”.
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Dragged it to my bookmarks bar & it turned my Workflowy blank. Didn’t work. Help?
Thanks!
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That sounds really bad.
Browser? OS?
What exactly do you mean by “turned my WorkFlowy blank”?
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Need to proofread my voice to text. Should read “numerically”.
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It processes the entire bullet as a string of text. It doesn’t do true numeric sorting… “10” sorts before “2”
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Ah. I just tried it with single digits. Can you give some examples of how sorting can be used?
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This should be a WorkFlowy native function! Super useful!
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Works great! Very slick. Keep up the great work.
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FYI it looks like this stopped working with the most recent Workflowy release
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Working for me. Try deleting your bookmarklet and install a new one. This was last updated a couple months ago. (2019-05-29) Unfortunately, bookmarklets are static, and you have to manually update them when stuff breaks.
Also you can try my new WFx extension. The optional PowerPack has a whole bunch of useful scripts, replacing bookmarklets and the need for manual updates.
https://blog.workflowy.com/2019/08/07/wfx/
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Works perfectly. Thanks for this and all your tricks and add-ins 🙂
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I may be doing something wrong but sortWF doesn’t appear to be working.
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EDIT: Found the bug, v3.4.1 should work now.
Are you using the userscript? There seems to be an issue with keyboard listener. I installed a fresh copy of the bookmarklet and that works… so I recommend you convert to the bookmarklet for now until I can figure this out.
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