Zavala - An open source outliner for Macs, iPads, and iPhones

Posted by Dave M
Feb 3, 2026 at 01:53 PM

It looks very nice, but I’m very wary of software where I can’t see where my files are, or *touch* them.

The OPML import is neat, but I’d love to see a first-class citizen of OPML, where it doesn’t get imported and exported, but can just be opened and saved as a normal file.

But the ‘magic storage’ of the files is a killer for me: MindNode has gone this way in Next, and it means I can’t use it reliably as the file doesn’t exist on my machine and can’t be copied, rendered by other application - it can only be queried through scriping in other tools, which turns it into a dead-end silo.

/justmythoughtsonopening