Which "favorite" outliner app would you give up if something better came along

Posted by tightbeam
Jul 8, 2018 at 02:01 PM

To become a “favorite” of mine, an outliner must have three features (other people, of course, will have different ideas of what a favorite makes):

- easy and intuitive to use (if I can’t launch the software and begin outlining immediately, without having to consult a knowledge base or a “quick-start” guide, then already it’s created friction between me and getting done what I want to get done);

- cross-platform (many good outliners are Mac-only because their developers lack the technical skills or business sense or gumption to make their products available to larger markets - same applies to Windows-centric developers); and

- robust export options (plain text and Word at a minimum).

Dynalist ticks the first two of these three boxes. You *can* “export” a Dynalist outline to plain text, but the mechanism for doing so sucks: it’s glorified copy and paste. You can download outlines as HTML or OPML, but those formats aren’t useful to me (at least not for the work I do in Dynalist), and the copy-and-paste “formatted text” feature is a poor man’s way to get the content into Word.

So, if a “super” Dynalist came along, with a proper export feature, I’d give up Dynalist.