Migrate from Dynalist to Outlinely

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 2, 2019 at 12:53 PM

JakeBernsteinWA wrote:
How many people use one of these outliners (whether it’s Workflowy,
>Outlinely, Dynalist, or even OmniOutliner) in conjunction with other PIM
>tools?
> >I feel like I “need” an outliner as part of my workflow, but I’m also
>extremely wary of over complicating things (which is a symptom of CRIMP
>after all).

That’s a classic issue around here: whether to use one tool only for all purposes or multiple tools for multiple uses.

There are advantages and disadvantages both ways. I’m a “many tools for multiple purposes” guy, and the downside is that some of my data does get fragmented and scattered and sometimes I use several tools for the same purpose.

But I put up with it because a) I find this situation less boring (there is a ludic aspect to switching between tools) and b) because I prefer having a specialist tool fulfill a special purpose perfectly than to have to use some kind of a workaround (or have a gap in my workflow).

There is an aspect of an internal market here, just like within Google, the company, where they can have multiple teams working on tools with overlapping functionality, and let them compete against each other (and ruthlessly killing off the losing projects).

I’ve been a WorkFlowy user now for many years, but I hardly ever use it as an outliner. As I work a lot within the Chrome browser, WorkFlowy is now my “digital brain,” both for memory management (recurring tasks, archive) and task management and prioritisation tool.

The “Clip to WorkFlowy” Chrome extension is an essential part, as it’s so handy to be able to add even URLs of emails from Outlook, so I can follow up tasks associated with specific emails weeks later, by which time I’d struggle to find the same email in Outlook among the thousands of emails there.

But yes, WorkFlowy is just one, I also use Keep for other purposes, and ConnectedText, and a few other dormant tools (Ginkgo), which I pull out when I need them.