Hello,

Long time lurker. Thanks for the discussions.

Check out https://transno.com - interesting, turns outlines into mindmaps.

I have no affiliation with transno. I just saw it on Product Hunt, and thought it looked like a great outliner to try

Thanks for this. Well it looks and feels like Dynalist. Many of the same commands, including hoisting. I started with it on my Android phone, and it immediately felt very familiar. Then I went online, and it still feels like Dynalist. You're working withe the same files, and they synch easily and automatically. The one click to mind map is interesting and even works pretty well on mobile. Rearranging things through drag and drop is maybe a little easier than Dynalist on the phone, too -- although this is never as "intuitive" as I seem to think it should be. It does images, colors, and text effects without the Dynalist markdown-like codes. Most things are done through the keyboard ribbon, which works well enough. It has search, although only within the open file, I think. It exports to word, PDF, HTML, OPML, and images. The mindmaps can be exported to Freemind.

Transno comes with lots of templates, too, although I don't know as they're particularly insightful or unique.

So on the one hand, good to see another outliner. And right now, beta is free. It seems a little pared down, but is perfectly usable. As a registered Dynalist user, I don't know if I see a unique advantage. And I haven't built anything large enough to really test the search.

Second thought: the feature is mindmap on mobile. Not only is it fast and readable, but there are also a number of themes for the mind maps that are attractive.

Given that Dynalist started as a Workflowy clone and then evolved to surpass it, I welcome this Dynalist clone and hope to see them evolve in new directions as well. Since I don't personally find mindmaps useful I don't see much need for this for myself, but given that Dynalist's iOS app is still not great, hopefully some competition will be a good thing.

I thick it is similar to brainio.com

A little more time spent with it, mostly on the web through my Chromebook. So yes, the files are online. Although encryption is mentioned, I can't find a way to do that. It has word count! And that's something I've asked for at Dynalist for some time. So handy for writers.

I noticed one oddity. When I tried to sign up to follow on Twitter, it asked for a LOT of permissions, including the ability to post and delete tweets on my behalf. Um, no.

So here is the whole story. Dynalist developer says it is a Mubu clone, not Dynalist:

https://talk.dynalist.io/t/transno-just-inspired-by-dynalist-or-something-more-than-that/6017/2

Worth noting some of what Erica said on the Dynalist forum (thanks to link posted above by @Luhman) -- ByteDance owns TikTok:

Back in April, Mubu was acquired by ByteDance. It wasn’t really a surprise to us, as we’re well aware of how small the outliner market currently is.
Apparently, ByteDance saw potential in selling this kind of outliner to teams and businesses, bought Mubu,
established Lark, and shoveled Transno there, probably reusing lots of the old Mubu code.
And ByteDance has reached out to Dynalist about corporate development (a.k.a. buying your company) back in 2018,
and they mentioned they’re trying to establish some business products in the United States to diversify their offerings.

Luhmann wrote:

So here is the whole story. Dynalist developer says it is a Mubu clone,
not Dynalist:

https://talk.dynalist.io/t/transno-just-inspired-by-dynalist-or-something-more-than-that/6017/2

Interesting background. Thanks for sharing

Ah. One can "lock" files. But there is one password for all locked files.

Although encryption is
mentioned, I can't find a way to do that.

Thanks for the background info on the company!