Dynalist

I understand this is primarily an outliner. But there is so much potential if this allowed data to be viewed interchangeably between the outline and mindmap based on your filters. The mindmap is an afterthought and so limited and clunky making it rarely useful. Transno is gone and nothing else does this cleanly. There are no layouts options, there is no editing available, no way to add thumbnail images in the mindmap. Obsidian is overly complex to get these core features and it doesn’t seem possible to get a straightforward outlining and minimizing setup out of it anyways. Please developers. This is a paid service and it hasn’t been updated in years. Make the mindmap as useful as the outline or allow developers to create plugins for this like obsidian.

Let’s be honest: WorkFlowy is a great app … so great in fact that you’ll wind up filling it up with so much stuff that it can easily become an overwhelming, cluttered mess — and that’s where Dynalist comes to the rescue with a more robust (but still simple and intuitive) approach that thoughtfully adds in both useful and category-leading features like line-item due dates and quick-and-easy multi-colored highlighting; no matter what you’re keeping track of using Dynalist, whether it be shopping lists, work projects or personal notes … with its rich palette of useful features ranging from a dedicated “Inbox” to browser extensions to clip things while you surf the web to sub-notes to tags (which are there to make things easier but not at all mandatory, depending on how simple you want your setup) and much more, Dynalist is the e perfect app for keeping your stuff arranged just the way you like it! True team has been around for many years, they have consistently added new and useful features and they’re very generous with their approach to letting you try most features for free (really free, not “you’ll be billed after this trial period”) — and should you desire the extra features (like Dropbox/Google Drive SimpleText-based backups for peace of mind), the price of entry is more than reasonable considering how useful Dynalist will become to you at that point. Truly one of my “must have” apps and more than likely the very first app I’d install in a replacement computer/phone. Can’t say enough good things about it including that in all the time I’ve made use of it, not only has it grown to become a sort of “second brain” but I’ve literally never had any sort of technical issue with the app — EVER … not even so much as a slight hiccup (speaks to the good coding that makes the app run)

Is is perfect? No, but it *is* the best app I have tried (and I have tried them all) for organizing your writing. Dynalist in split screen with Ulysses or iA Writer is, without any real competition, the best writing experience on the iPad. So, five stars. Not because there's nothing to improve, but because it's the best we've got, and if more people use it, maybe the developers will be able to spend time making this feel like an iOS app and a little less like a ported website. (Until then, the one bug which slowed me down at first has an easy fix : if you have it open with split screen and find the cursor getting captured by the OTHER app and not returning to Dynalist, use Command + Tab on your keyboard to switch back to the app.) Dynalist Devs, thank you so much for making a truly useful app. If future versions felt a little less like a UI kit and a little more like Bear ... that would be wonderful, but take your time. This thing is worth getting right.