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Posted by tightbeam
Nov 1, 2016 at 11:55 AM
For those unhappy with Workflowy - or at least its state of development - there’s at least one clone:
Posted by jaslar
Nov 1, 2016 at 02:04 PM
We’ve written about Dynalist before, but I happen to have brought my iPad into work today, so thought I’d see how Dynalist is in iOS lately. The answer is: pretty good. Using Chrome, I went to the website, and see they’ve added some nice touch screen enhancements that make it easier to navigate and play around with the structure.
Posted by steveylang
Nov 1, 2016 at 05:46 PM
I’m still very happy with Workflowy on desktop and on my Chromebook. My only dissatisfaction is with the iOS app (which is why I have a Chromebook instead of an iPad.) Missing the following features really kills the iOS app for me:
1. Being able to use the cursor keys to freely move around the document (instead of only within an item)
2. External keyboard command to expand/collapse an item (CTRL-SPACE)
3. Starred items
4. Night mode (not as important as the other 3 items, but still…)
Posted by yosemite
Nov 1, 2016 at 11:22 PM
dynalist is excellent. I’ve found it can’t handle thousands of items easily, like workflowy does. Nonetheless dynalist has some great features.
Frank and his blog posts and his book are awesome but I agree that workflowy’s lack of development is frustrating.
For me, workflowy, dynalist, moo.do, HandyFlowy, all of them, are just terrible on ios. The native apps are usually better than the web app but they’re all awfully slow and visually glitchy and have unbearable quirks such as the one mentioned above (can’t navigate with up/down keys). I use them only if I have to.
In all of their defense, at least as far as ios: apple requires all ios browsers to use the WebKit rendering engine and (I believe) WebKit javascript. I think this really limits what developers are able to do with web apps on ios.
Posted by Luhmann
Nov 2, 2016 at 02:15 PM
I agree that dynalist is slower when handling large outlines than Workflowy. One of the things I love about Workflowy is how fast it is, regardless of size.
I also agree that so far there is nothing remotely usable on iOS. I’m beta testing Bear and have hopes for it, but so far their outlining features are missing (there is no easy way to indent on iOS in their current beta, although they say that will change…)