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Posted by jaslar
Nov 11, 2015 at 05:06 PM
That’s the first bit of news. Development work continues on Dynalist, a sort of Workflowy clone with folders. They’ve been working to get feature parity with Workflowy, and are also promising some enhancements I’ve been waiting for (see https://trello.com/c/Mb8nYQtc/29-word-count). I fiddled with it yesterday, and see some thoughtfulness and polish going into the product.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 11, 2015 at 05:52 PM
I think this is the first that I’ve heard of Dynalist and, signing up, it does look very much like Workflowy.
A couple of questions:
If imitation is a high form of praise, then Dynalist is praising Workflowy indeed. However, is there not an issue with another developer so blatantly copying a competitor? I have a funny feeling about that.
As well, having just got started back with Workflowy,from a more pragmatic perspective, is there any value to giving Dynalist a spin?
My CRIMPing instincts say give it a spin. But, again, being more practical, given that I’m back into Workflowy and, perhaps more to the point, putting a lot of energy into getting my academic routine into better form, it seems unwise to divert that energy elsewhere.
Daly
jaslar wrote:
That’s the first bit of news. Development work continues on Dynalist, a
>sort of Workflowy clone with folders. They’ve been working to get
>feature parity with Workflowy, and are also promising some enhancements
>I’ve been waiting for (see https://trello.com/c/Mb8nYQtc/29-word-count).
>I fiddled with it yesterday, and see some thoughtfulness and polish
>going into the product.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Nov 12, 2015 at 03:07 AM
I like it. It’s more of a writing outliner that can handle task lists to Workflowy’s task list app that could be used to write outlines.
Though, I kinda wish they copied them a little bit more—the perma-hoist functionality doesn’t quite seem to be there the way it is in Workflowy, which gives it that MaxThink/Brainstorm feel that’s lacking in, well, pretty much everything.
Posted by jaslar
Nov 12, 2015 at 04:49 AM
Well, Abiword mimicked Word. OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice recreate the feel and functions of MS Office. Windows sought to capture the graphic ease of the Mac. Writemonkey aped (hah) WriteRoom. So I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to try to emulate what you admire, plus tweaks.
And Dynalist does have some significant functional differences: amomg them inline images, and a folder structure. And while Ctrl-] isn’t quite as easy as “click on the button” to hoist - it’s close. In fact, I find the Dynalist key commands a little more memorable than Workflowy’s.
Posted by jaslar
May 9, 2016 at 08:59 PM
Check out the Dynalist blog: http://blog.dynalist.io/
Uploads images, now has a very fast nValt sort of tag searching. I shifted over to Dynalist at work, and haven’t touch Workflowy in some time. Dynalist is diverging, but I’m finding it very powerful.