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Dynalist

Dynalist is a web app that lets you break down and organize your thoughts in the format of lists.

Web

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • iPad
4.6
Excellent17 reviews
164likes
19comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Infinite hierarchical depth
  2.  Support for MarkDown
  3.  Search by tags
  4.  Note organization
  5.  List making and management
  6.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  7.  Outliner
  8.  Dark Mode
  9. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  10.  Cross Linking
  11.  Outline folding
  12.  Hierarchical Structure
  13.  Custom shortcuts
  14.  REST API
  15. Google Calendar icon  Sync with Google Calendar
  16.  Cloud Sync
  17.  Real time collaboration
  18.  Works Offline
  19.  Full-Text Search
  20.  Color coding
  21.  Mind Map view
  22.  Tagging
  23.  List management
  24.  Synchronization
  25.  Brainstorming
  26.  Outline mode
  27. Google Calendar icon  Google Calendar integration

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Comment summary: Dynalist is praised for its versatility in note-taking and task organization, often compared favorably to Workflowy due to its robust feature set and community involvement. Users appreciate its speed, customization options, and the absence of input limits in the free version. However, some note the lack of multiple window support in the desktop app as a drawback. Overall, Dynalist is seen as a powerful tool for both personal and professional use.
Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
8

EDIT Many things have changed in the past month since using Dynalist, its actually Really Fast now almost on-par with workflowy, so any points I've made about it being slower than workflowy are kind of minute now


If I had to pick one software of the 400 or so I bookmarked here to be my favorite its this one

Its a great program for organizing information

How workflowy is better than it right now:

  • It is slower than workflowy loading by a few seconds, but its not that big of a deal once your doc is loaded up anyhow
  • It only has 2 forms of formatting so far, workflowy has 3
  • Workflowy pro lets you set a background theme, dynalist doesn't have that
  • Workflowy navigates through tag searches faster

How dynalist is better than it right now

  • It has a more active community and faster development cycle. See the public trello board development cycle
  • Its got way better community developer tampermonkey scripts . See here which is already 10-20 features alone not even mentioned
  • Its got an open active forum here

Other reasons why its better than workflowy

  • It has formatting color tags natively
  • It has native H1 H2 H3 tag formatting
  • If your into markdown format dynalist has a better feel to it
  • It has way more custom settings than workflowy. Ability to set different hotkeys, and more functions for navigating your document
  • It allows multiple documents, workflowy only lets you have one
  • It has a built in tag pane
  • Ability to automatically sync data to your dropbox or google drive everyday, AFAIK workflowy is just stored on its server and you download it manually
  • Can sync up your google calendar to make events right inside dynalist
  • Built in date formatter, so you can assign due dates / dates easier

[Edited by Kagerjay, November 09]

[Edited by Kagerjay, November 09]

TBayAreaPat
0

https://dynalist.io/download Free doesn't paste in images or web links.. I'd go with Workflowy instead. With Dynalist Pro, you can upload up to 1 GB of files to Dynalist every month.

only7yb
0

Simple, efficient, versatile - just great! After trying out dozens of to-do and note-taking apps, this one serves me as an ultimate solution :)

Guest
0

Easy, intuitive, powerful. That's enough for me, gets the job done.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Guest
0

It’s fast, very fast.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
pauliusj
0

I use Dynalist for outlining and creating to-do lists. I like being able to "zoom in" to particular task, which helps me focus on a particular thing I'm working on.

4.5 stars.

The biggest thing I don't like about Dynalist desktop app is that you can't launch multiple windows at once. Switching between documents can be difficult and distracting. This app would be perfect if you could launch multiple instances (windows) of it, so switching between documents would be faster and easier. Notion is much better in this regard - you can have as many windows open as you want.

Guest
0

I like Dynalist because it so minimalistic, distraction-free and very powerful tool on the same time.

You can focus on what really matter (not to selecting from hundred templates for document and customizing it's view later, like in Notion) and build your own structure of notes (flat with tags, tree-based or mix of them). Thanks to tags and backlinks, it's possible to implement Zettelkasten in Dynalist.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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Dynalist information

  • Developed by

    US flagDynalist Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $8 and $10 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6 (17 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    94 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 19 comments and reviews about Dynalist, and it has gotten 164 likes

Dynalist was added to AlternativeTo by Erica Xu on and this page was last updated . Dynalist is sometimes referred to as omniflow