Workflowy CLI: Transform Commands

January 21, 2026

Video Walkthrough

The transform command handles content cleanup in bulk.

Splitting Pasted Content

When you paste text from elsewhere, it often comes as one long node. Transform can split it:

workflowy transform <item-id> split -s "\n"

This takes a node with newline-separated content and creates child nodes for each line.

Cleaning Up Messy Text

workflowy transform <item-id> trim
workflowy transform <item-id> no-punctuation

The Real Power — Shell Commands

workflowy transform <item-id> -x 'echo {} | your-llm-cli "summarize this"'

The -x flag pipes content through any shell command. Use this to send notes to LLMs for summarization, translation, or analysis. The result either replaces the original or gets inserted as a child node with --as-child.

Combined with --interactive mode, you can review each transformation before it applies — useful when processing multiple nodes.

Installation

brew install mholzen/workflowy/workflowy-cli