Migrate from Dynalist to Outlinely

Posted by bvasconcelos
Feb 27, 2019 at 10:50 PM

Dynalist is a decent app, but I didn’t go far using it. About Outlinely: I can’t believe how little attention this app has gotten. To me feels like a perfect blend of OmniOutliner, Ulysses and Bear. OmniOutliner lacks Markdown-support, Ulysses lacks text-folding and better text-annotating features (I dislike footnotes and annotations being hidden from sight), and both of them lack [[Wiki-links]] (which is pretty much all that Bear has got apart from design and layout elements). That is not to say it is without shortcomings: i. the search is nowhere near as good as Ulysses (it won’t display every occurrence of the searched term); ii. text-folding is not as dynamic and quick as it can be in OmniOutliner (I can fold anywhere in omni, whereas I have to move the cursor all the way up to fold a branch in Outlinely). Also, I find it little annoying that it asks me if I really want to open a link every time I click on it. Still, my verdict after two days, is that it will become my main writing app!