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Dynalist and Workflowy - storing docs locally
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Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 27, 2019 at 05:47 PM
Hi, crimpers out there.
Is there no way to store Dynalist or Workflowy files locally?
I will give a workshop in a government agency in November and intended to use one of these two tools for collecting and organizing participant input. But I will not be permitted to access the internet there.
And yes: I know I can use a bunch of tools to do exactly what I need to do (outliners, mind mapping tools…). I just wanted to use the opportunity to learn more about Dynalist or Workflowy.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 27, 2019 at 06:38 PM
I don’t know about Workflowy, but Dynalist storage is all cloud based—including documents in the “upload manager”. Except that Dynalist Pro can be configured to backup a .zip of all documents daily to Dropbox or Google Drive, or both. And that of course can be synced to the desktop—depending on security, etc. The Dynalist apps are wrappers around the web instance.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 27, 2019 at 06:40 PM
... forgot to mention that documents can be exported in various formats. I think Export is also a Pro feature.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 27, 2019 at 09:37 PM
Thanks Paul.
I know the Export feature but I cannot re-import a saved file in Dynalist. Same with Workflowy.
Seems, they don’t want me to work offline.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 27, 2019 at 09:54 PM
An exported file can be opened in Notepad or TextEdit, copied, and the contents pasted into a new note or an existing note. Plain text export works best.
Franz Grieser wrote:
>I know the Export feature but I cannot re-import a saved file in
>Dynalist. Same with Workflowy.
>Seems, they don’t want me to work offline.