Dynalist

App freezes and blinds me with a pure white screen when I initially try to enter text. Have to close out the app but sometimes it happens twice in a row. Very annoying. Loved this app before. This issue only happens with this app.

… but requires a login either through 3rd party auth or username and pw with them.

This app is so simple and straightforward, which is where its extraordinary power lies. I’ve been using this app for years, and If you are extremely visual like me, you’ll love the idea of just moving things around like you’d move post-it’s on an endless vision board. The ability to set up seemingly endless nests and sub-nests of nesting notes is crucial to me for keeping from being overwhelmed by the volume and numerous branches of my thoughts and notes. You can organize items at your whim and trust that everything will sync immediately between you and your collaborators. From what I’ve been reading, this app is apparently not being supported anymore. Is that true? Everyone I have turned on to this app has thanked me profusely and we all continue to use it religiously. There is no substitute from what I can see.

Love how simple and easy to use it is, and especially a fan of how it works seamlessly going between my computer and phone. NOT! a fan however, of how teeny tiny the checkboxes are, and how there's no option to change their size. Would love to see that fixed!

This app is so good that I still use it despite it being nearly abandoned by its developer for years now. It’s just soooo good. Like it’s so feature complete there’s basically nothing I can’t do on mobile that I can do on the desktop version. And it’s so well designed, all the common things I need to do are super quick and easy, none of my time feels wasted. And it’s super performant even on old devices. Seriously the devs made an incredible app and then abandoned it but I’m not even mad cause it’s still so good 😩 (there are definitely flaws and minor bugs but none of them significantly damage the experience at least for me)

The buttons at the bottom of the screen can’t be clicked with the Magic Keyboard trackpad (iPad). No updates in >3 years, such a shame.

Previous versions allowed you to hide or expand the left panel with all your documents and folders, as well as adjust the width of the panel. This was a key feature to maintain a highlevel view at all time. The new versions auto-hide the documents and folders and therefore reduces the ability to review and scan your work with ease.

I understand this is primarily an outliner. But there is so much potential if this allowed data to be viewed interchangeably between the outline and mindmap based on your filters. The mindmap is an afterthought and so limited and clunky making it rarely useful. Transno is gone and nothing else does this cleanly. There are no layouts options, there is no editing available, no way to add thumbnail images in the mindmap. Obsidian is overly complex to get these core features and it doesn’t seem possible to get a straightforward outlining and minimizing setup out of it anyways. Please developers. This is a paid service and it hasn’t been updated in years. Make the mindmap as useful as the outline or allow developers to create plugins for this like obsidian.

This app is brilliant in its simplicity. It does the small things so well, is responsive/quick, seamlessly sync across devices, has the flexibility for you to create systems for yourself, and even though the developers haven’t been actively working on it since obsidian blew up, it’s still my favorite task manager/note taking app. Give it a try!

After going through several outliners like OmniOutliner and Workflowy, it was Dynalist that one out. Dynalist developers: this is the best outlining software! Please keep supporting this just as you’ve been improving Obsidian.