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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 18, 2018 at 05:45 PM
I am sure all four online outlining services are very good. I prefer Dynalist because it just works the way I want it to. I like that I can create separate lists (unlike Workflowy). The bookmark feature works great for me. Color-coding list items, adding notes to items, the ability to make items one of three levels of header, adding dates and tags… that all works for me. Yes, they need to make a better iOS app. And the one other thing I’d like to see improved is how the export works. It just feels kind of clumsy to me.
The proof, however, will be when the “Early Bird” pricing goes away and instead of $4 per month, it is $8. I’m not sure I’d sign on for $96 per year.
Steve Z.
Posted by xtabber
May 18, 2018 at 07:36 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The proof, however, will be when the “Early Bird” pricing goes away and
>instead of $4 per month, it is $8. I’m not sure I’d sign on for $96 per
>year.
According to Erica at Dynalist, if you took advantage of the Early Bird pricing (which I did), you will keep it forever, even if you let your subscription lapse and then resubscribe later.
AFAIK, Early Bird pricing is no longer being offered. I agree that $96/year is pretty steep but Dynalist can be pretty aggressive about building their customer base, so there may be other offers in the future.
Posted by satis
May 18, 2018 at 09:50 PM
Yes, they said Early Bird is forever. They were pretty aggressive pushing the offer last June/July, and I remember getting emails from them saying that I could even sign up for a single month under Early Bird, and if I wanted to cancel they’d always let me return later with that sale pricing in effect. One reason I didn’t take them up on it (aside from not being an active user) was that the sales pitch seemed a bit *too* aggressive to me, and I figured similar deals would eventually reappear.
They haven’t, so far. (shrug) They did offer an end of year “one time only” 1-year, 50%-off deal, though last year on Reddit Erica said “I was planning to do a promotion where you can pay what you want for our product, and we’ll give 50% that to a charity” which she apparently chose not to do. Currently you can google coupon codes for them as well, which are in the 10%-20% range, though I’m not sure if any are active. (To my knowledge neither checkvist nor workflowy have offered sales or coupon codes.) Maybe Dynalist had no choice but to charge more than the competition as they ramp up their development; as of two years ago the company was just two full-time college students.
Posted by Luhmann
May 21, 2018 at 02:18 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I’m not sure I’d sign on for $96 per year.
If one didn’t know about Dynalist’s “pro” features, I think most people would find the free tier more than adequate. It stands up well to the pro-plan offered by Workflowy. I think most people could use the free version for years without ever needing any of the pro features, and it would still be better than most of the other options out there. If only they could get it together on iOS…
Free:
Unlimited items & documents
Move item
Internal linking
Markdown formatting
Dates
Tags
Checklist
Sharing & collaboration
Export & import
5 bookmarks
Pro:
Google Calendar integration
Capture to inbox
Unlimited bookmarks
Tag pane
Image and file attachments
Version history
Daily Dropbox & Google Drive backup
Item finder
Custom shortcuts
Custom date display format
Priority support
Posted by moritz
May 21, 2018 at 04:45 AM
My vote goes to Dynalist. Development is very active, recent speed improvements in browser are very welcome (before that, Workflowy felt more nimble).
Not quite there yet though ... e.g. tags are part of body text and are always exported as such (which in most cases for me doesn’t make sense - hate having to clean them up manually). Also iOS version has ways to go.