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Posted by jaslar
May 9, 2016 at 10:09 PM
A few more thoughts.
I started a new job a few months ago, and found Dynalist - to my surprise, more than Workflowy - a great way to track projects, and “bucket” them into discrete documents (on the left, or File panel). Dynalist had the strengths of Workflowy, but also that extra two-pane tracking.
Understand that this new job doesn’t allow me to install software by myself. So to walk in the door and have immediate access to a strong information management tool via a browser was both powerful and useful. As noted in another discussion, this may not be so secure. But ok if we manage the kind of information we’re working with. (Tricky, right?)
In the blog link above I mentioned rapid searching for words. The COMMAND that does that doesn’t seem to be a basic search, so I’m scratching my head a bit. But Dynalist is evolving, and my request for help on Twitter today (about a change in interface display caused by adjustments to window size) was responded to very quickly and intelligently. Further, I was intrigued by the blog’s reference to mind mapping. I decided that it was worth some personal financial investment.
As always, no tool can be everything to everyone. But so far, I find that Dynalist is easy to learn and use, is moving forward, is affordable, allows me to quickly move my data if the company winks out of existence (a zip file backup), and solves real business problems for me.
Posted by Andy Brice
May 10, 2016 at 08:50 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>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.
The source code of a product is protected by copyright and the name/logo/brand is protected by trademark. However the general functionality and appearance isn’t protected (unless they have a patent on it, which is thankfully rare). So it generally isn’t illegal to copy the functionality and appearance of software. IMHO is good thing that software developers build on the good ideas of others, as long as it doesn’t cross the line into blatant plagiarism. Anyway I am struggling to think of any copycat product that has been commercially successful.
Posted by Franz Grieser
May 10, 2016 at 10:06 AM
Andy Brice wrote:
>Anyway I am struggling
>to think of any copycat product that has been commercially successful.
May I assist you?
What about Word, Excel, Access, to name but a few. :-)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 10, 2016 at 11:26 AM
I appreciate getting word of Dynalist. Looks interesting. I like that you can break up your outlines into separate documents. One issue I’ve come across is that the folder/document pane does not respond to commands when I’m trying to use Dynalist on my iPad with Safari. Has anyone else come across this problem?
Steve Z.
Posted by jaslar
May 10, 2016 at 01:48 PM
Steve, I don’t find it usable on the iPad - in that respect, it’s even worse than the Workflowy app. For me, Dynalist is a desktop app.