Dynalist Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Dynalist is a productivity and outlining solution that allows businesses to capture, flesh out, and realize ideas. It features a powerful tagging system, making it easy to group things together.

Dynalist

Web-based

Windows

Director

Accidentally filtering notes by clicking on them instead of collapsing the note hierarchy for a topic happens from time to time, especially on a mobile device, and disrupts my flow of fast notetaking.

Writer

I love that I can easily write my daily schedule and it automatically synchronizes with Google calendar. It's super easy to use (can you write a list?) but it can also be advanced if you want it to.

The owner (of my home)

In fact it makes remenmber me a ios tool calledd Trunk Notes, that I miss very much (the desktop counterpart is a mess, and the lua support is horrible). Missing: an editor for ios.

The desktop and mobile app for Dynalist is very solid with a nice design and good UX.

Test Analyst Telecom

It is easy, we have only text ( for some kind of use this is enough -like to do notes). I like a lot the organization inside notes, subnores, folders.

researcher

It is like Workflowy, yet it allows more freedom, especially one can create folders, use more advanced formatting (like h1, h2, h3, colours) etc. It is also more usable for free than Workflowy.

Student

Dynalist's excellent system helps me to keep my notes organized all the time.

engineer

I fell in love with design of app and the fact that is very easy to use:outlining triggers, taking notes and many more.

And I still do like Dynalist and use it occasionally, especially when I want to make one document that I could share with colleagues.

Owner

This is really UNACCEPTABLE in software like this, causing a huge inconvenience to anyone who wants to look for something inside a folder.

Fellow

I really like that Dynalist has created a full suite of apps for Apple (Mac, iPad, iPhone) as well as the web app.

Using keyboard shortcuts is one way I taught myself to avoid doing this.

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I was delighted to find this tool while looking for an alternative to Workflowy (monthly usage limits are too low on the free plan with Workflowy for anyone who is using that app seriously). The desktop and mobile app for Dynalist is very solid with a nice design and good UX. 

A better alternative to Workflowy

I work with it at least 1 hour per day since over 2 years. Each day, beleive it or not, I happy to have found Dynalist to work with. I use iCal as my calendar for weeks later then THIS WEEK.  For THIS WEEK I copy once per week my TO DO in Dynalyst.

It's an unbeleivable tool and it is free

Dynalist can be used to manage a small business with perfection.
I use it as a CRM, opportunities management, shopping list (for raw material), production management (as in kanban), storage (business documentation, software licences, processes/procedures etc), tracking of facebook campaigns, mood board, competition information and other. 
I do not load any images, I try to keep it a text-based management system; faster to load and not cluttered.
And I also keep outlines for my personal life, that do not mix with business ones.

Dynalist can help you to manage your business (and your life)

It started well, because I came from worfklowy, but then I saw that the help is very weak, not explaining the syntax properly. To this day I don't know how to use the date search properly.

Dynalist is an improved workflowy

Overall, I've used Dynalist for a lot of things. Even as a CRM for our business.
It's truly one of my favorite pieces of software. 
If they ever go out of business I will truly be disappointed.

Truly Unlimited Possibilities 

Very good app and customer support is on point

Their roadmap seems pretty impressive too

Best outliner on the internet

A beautiful and powerful piece of software packed with features for a perfect note-taking application. 

Best Note Taking Application

My overall experience with Dynalist has been nothing but joy. I am not exaggerating when I say since I have started using Dynalist I am always happy when I write new to-do list or notes because I know that they will never get organized or messy. Dynalist's excellent system helps me to keep my notes organized all the time.

Best bullet style to-do app

This app helps me dig up important notes when I want them. It has lightning fast search. 
The tool also allows you to structure your thoughts in an organized manner. I really like the clarity this tool has helped me achieve.

Dynalist is like my second brain. I store all my notes here.

The biggest problem I solve with Dynalist is scheduling out my day every morning, so I make sure I get everything I need to do done. 

So great for scheduling days and goals

Dynalist is one of the most helpful tools to assist me in organizing of my ideas and plans for the whole day. This is type of an app which can be recommended to everyone without any hesitation who wants to stay  organized with their notes, reduce the time wasted to search for any kind of data. 

Dynalist reads my mind!

Great list manager

Love Dynalist for notetaking, but images & iPad app are tough

Easier to use

Great for researchers to want ever-lasting  and well organised notes

Productivity. Knowledge base. Personal planning and goal setting repository.

My favorite list tracking tool

In these times of information overload, want to get organized? Use Dynalist!

Very good! I have tried some similar ones before, but this is by far the best one.

Simple and delivers what is expected

Probably the best list management platform

Easy to use. Very handy for planning and keeping information organized. I love the synchronization with Google Calendar, and I love all the features it has, and yet you can use it in a very simple version if you prefer. It's a product I use every day.

Simple or Advanced and for everything

I LOVE this software. I use it for nearly everything. Journaling, notes, startups I'm following, ideas, Todo lists, etc. It's a fantastic service and the developers are so kind and care about their users. Workflowy was the first, but dynalist is by far the best. I'll be subscribing to pro as soon as I'm in a bit of a more stable financial situation, and I don't subscribe to anything! I'd like to mention too, that I'm not subscribing for more features. The free version offers anything you could possibly want from this software, I'm mostly subbing to support the devs. Great team, great software! Also it's accessable everywhere!!

I couldn't use it as my full note taking software or for legal notes because it doesn't have the right features but I did keep check lists and used it as a sort of task management system. 

Good for lists and quick notes

amazing software!

Best Task Management App

A great alternative to Google Keep, works well and syncs across all my devices.  It is my daily note taking app.

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