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Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 23, 2019 at 12:59 PM
moritz wrote:
My vote goes to Dynalist. Development is very active, recent speed
>improvements in browser are very welcome (before that, Workflowy felt
>more nimble).
Has anyone else noticed a sudden improvement in Workflowy’s speed this week? I know they’ve moved to new servers a couple of months ago, but it was only this week that I noticed a dramatic improvement in the responsiveness (when navigating the tree, not necessarily in the initial loading of the site - but my file is huge anyway).
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 23, 2019 at 01:09 PM
P.S. Those of you who are Dynalist customers, have you managed to find out in which country Dynalist the organisation is based and what jurisdiction applies to their services (or where the data is held)? I haven’t been able to find out much in that regard.
Posted by yosemite
Mar 23, 2019 at 03:28 PM
On speed: I’ve noticed both workflowy and dynalist have sped up some this past year. workflowy has always been faster for me, in web, android, and desktop. I have 1000’s of items in each service (why? it’s nuts I know). I feel like dynalist struggles with really huge amounts of data in one big list where workflowy doesn’t, and I like one huge list, not separate documents like dynalist offers (although I completely understand how some people do like the separate documents).
On development pace: dynalist has slowed considerably, workflowy has picked up a lot. dynalist appears “stuck” to me. I hope they can “unstick” because I like them a lot.
Posted by marlowe
Mar 23, 2019 at 03:31 PM
Looks like it’s hosted on Digital Ocean and uploads are on AWS.
Posted by marlowe
Mar 23, 2019 at 03:33 PM
Btw, you can now hide the header in Checkvist by typing ‘om’
thouqht wrote:
I’ve used them all pretty intensely except for moo which I only really
>glanced at. IMO Dynalist is the best of them by a long shot in my
>opinion.
>
>Workflowy is where I started, but they dropped the ball by just not
>really doing anything for years. They are starting to develop again, but
>I think they are more focused on simplicity than power - which is great
>for many, but I’m a power user who wants more features if they mean
>higher functionality even if it comes at the price of a higher learning
>curve.
>
>Chekvist is pretty robust but it’s ugly as as heck. It really bothers me
>how cluttered and messy the top of the screen is. I’m looking at
>zoomable outliners so that I can hide all the information that I DON’T
>want to see, don’t make me look at your ugly header all day. It also ran
>slower and was less responsive for me which was annoying. I did like the
>keyboard shortcuts and ability to create separate files (looking at you
>workflowy).
>
>Dynalist is the king though. Except for one instance of the servers
>being down, Dynalist has pretty much done everything the others have
>plus some. Some of the extra stuff like custom keyboard shortcuts is a
>big deal for me. Also, their development cycle has been pretty
>impressive. They put out weekly updates which is pretty awesome. There’s
>a few features on their development board that if they go live would
>make it even better.
>
>I get it if people care about the price, but I don’t. I use this stuff
>professionally all day every day and would easily pay 5x as much if I
>had to (though I’d demand a fully functional desktop version with tabs
>and split screens at that point).