best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by Luhmann
Apr 8, 2018 at 01:12 AM

Dynalist seems to be the best option right now. And the developers are very active. If you find it limited I suggest working with Dynalist to improve their product. Workflowy has picked up a bit recently, but I’m still not convinced that they can catch up. Outlinely hasn’t updated in 7 months. Mubu (Chinese only) has a nice native app on iOS but otherwise is somewhat more limited than Dynalist (not to mention keeping your data on Chinese servers). I don’t like OmniOutliner at all. That’s pretty much it as far as I’m concerned. I don’t know of any other apps out there that meet my needs for a decent outliner. I know other people on this forum are perfectly happy to use folding text editors, task managers, and other apps as an outliner, but I need a dedicated outliner for some of my work and these are the only ones I’ve been able to find that are any good. Like I said, since Dynalist seems to be the best of the lot, it seems worth supporting their efforts. It isn’t just a matter of what is the best right now, but which app shows the most potential to grow in the near future, and for me that is Dynalist. (Take a look at their roadmap on Trello.)