Omniflow.io becomes Dynalist.io

Posted by jaslar
May 9, 2016 at 10:09 PM

A few more thoughts.

I started a new job a few months ago, and found Dynalist - to my surprise, more than Workflowy - a great way to track projects, and “bucket” them into discrete documents (on the left, or File panel). Dynalist had the strengths of Workflowy, but also that extra two-pane tracking.

Understand that this new job doesn’t allow me to install software by myself. So to walk in the door and have immediate access to a strong information management tool via a browser was both powerful and useful. As noted in another discussion, this may not be so secure. But ok if we manage the kind of information we’re working with. (Tricky, right?)

In the blog link above I mentioned rapid searching for words. The COMMAND that does that doesn’t seem to be a basic search, so I’m scratching my head a bit. But Dynalist is evolving, and my request for help on Twitter today (about a change in interface display caused by adjustments to window size) was responded to very quickly and intelligently. Further, I was intrigued by the blog’s reference to mind mapping. I decided that it was worth some personal financial investment.

As always, no tool can be everything to everyone. But so far, I find that Dynalist is easy to learn and use, is moving forward, is affordable, allows me to quickly move my data if the company winks out of existence (a zip file backup), and solves real business problems for me.