The GIF is not meant to be a tutorial, but to show each feature. It needs to be quick, unfortunately, due to upload size limitations. I don’t really have the time to do a full YouTube video or something on the plugin.
It may be instructive to read the post I originally wrote about the “workbench” workflow, before I developed the plugin: A Workbench note ⊗ - #11 by ryanjamurphy
The Workbench plugin provides a set of simple commands that can be used for all kinds of things. In general, though, the idea is to invoke those commands to quickly copy, link, or embed sections of whatever you’re looking at into another note.
Say you’re writing an article about gamification and its applications in crowdsourcing. You have a set of notes open detailing some theory behind these concepts, examples of their use, and so on. With all of those notes open, you could use Workbench to grab links to blocks in each of them to compile a bunch of “inputs” into the article you’re writing. This may be especially quick if you use the click commands the plugin allows (see its settings).
More often, I use it just to collect a few items from various notes into one place before inserting it into another note.
There is a bug of sorts right now: if you give the plugin a non-existing note as the workbench, it doesn’t create the note. So you need to make sure the “workbench” note already exists.