App Profile: Zavala

adam saverian

Rating: 5/5

The developer(s) is on to something big here. This is the first outliner I've seen that is so simple, and minimalistic, yet also allows you to do something I've wanted to do for YEARS. Have different font sizes for each level of my outlines. I'm an outlining addict. I've been using Workflowy for over 10 years. But I could never figure out why they didn't let the user choose font sizes for the outline levels. This makes it so much easier to visually see the outline. I'm switching over to Zavala for now. It's light on features, but (in my opinion) a lot of those extra features in other outliners are a waste of time. Zavala isn't perfect yet, but I can see how it could easily be the best outliner on the market for minimalists like me!

jg6464

Rating: 5/5

I like writing in structured text, with the ability to fold. Don't know why Mac developers find that so hard--in other apps even simple things like tab to indent don't work. And none of have decent export. This one works *perfectly*. It has all the expected outliner functions (except hoist), all of which work intuitively. It exports decent markdown, for those of us who aren't planning to use the app just for writing, not long-term storage. It has enough basic styling options to make writing pleasant. It even has super internal and external linking. Thank you, developer! And please, don't go overboard adding extra features.

jg6464

Rating: 5/5

I like structured text, so I have tried every outliner app since the iPad was first released. There are two kinds: ones that work, but only have proprietary formats, OPML or PDF exports, and ones that don’t work. This app finally solves the problem. Its minimalist interface responds just the way you think it should. It’s feature rich without getting in the way. And it exports decent markdown! One feature request: let the document go full screen—let us use a swipe gesture or an expand button to get rid of the document list, in the same way as we can get rid of the collections list.