Migrate from Dynalist to Outlinely

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 4, 2019 at 02:35 PM

I just gave Visual Outliner a quick look. I’m always excited to try a new outliner, but my first impressions are not favorable. Some apps when you try them make you want to keep on going. VO made me want to flee. It feels pretty rudimentary for the most part, other than a few sort of flourishes, like The Bucket, which is a temporary place to store ideas. In practice, The Bucket seems pretty useless.

You can add start and due dates to items in your outline, but that information goes in the “Tracking” tab of the “Properties” window, and doesn’t appear IN your outline at all. So you basically have to wallow around among your listings to find out what is due and when. More uselessness.

All of the buttons are grayed out, which usually indicates (at least in my experience) that they are unavailable at the time. Not so with Visual Outliner (which is kind of ironic).

And it costs $60!

Steve Z.

Luhmann wrote:
Since this group is called Outliner Software, worth noting that the Goal
>Enforcer developers have a new (windows-only) outlining app:
> >https://www.visualoutliner.com/
> >I don’t use windows, but I thought it worth a mention.