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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 17, 2026 at 05:40 PM
I have carped about this before - that is about development of Dynalist being halted. As a result I am hesitant to use it for some projects.
Having said that, my experience is that Dynalist is one of the best outliners I have used. It is both easy and fast, as well as being aesthetically pleasing, by which I mean it is really easy on the eye. Apart from easy, fast, and aesthetically pleasing my experience with Dynalist is that it is great for working out ideas, keeping information, and planning.
I wonder if there is any possibility at all that the developers of Dynalist would again support the program.
Any thoughts?
Daly
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 17, 2026 at 09:23 PM
The Dynalist developers, Erica Xu and Shida Li, created Obsidian, and that’s when Dynalist went onto the back burner. If Dynalist’s forum is an indicator, where there is almost total silence from the owners for nearly five years, I’d say don’t expect any upgrades to Dynalist.
Posted by cicerosc
Jan 17, 2026 at 09:44 PM
It is such a shame that they won’t open source it or someone develop a FOSS clone.
Posted by satis
Jan 18, 2026 at 08:35 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I wonder if there is any possibility at all that the developers of
>Dynalist would again support the program.
There’s “any possibility at all” that almost anyone can change their mind about anything at any time. But since Obsidian was opened to the public in 2020 the devs made explicit that Dynalist is in long-term maintenance mode, development has been paused for years, and they’re only fixing critical bugs. The usual direct alternatives with more support are the long-discussed Logseq, Workflowy, Checkvist, Roam Research (gag), and Obsidian+plugins+setup.
Posted by moritz
Jan 19, 2026 at 04:11 AM
After the slowdown of Dynalist updates I went back to Workflowy - they have in recent times picked up speed of development Workflowy is quite similar to Dynalist in many ways, no surprise considering that Dynalist was ‘inspired’ by Workflowy back in the day ...
Daly de Gagne wrote:
I have carped about this before - that is about development of Dynalist
>being halted. As a result I am hesitant to use it for some projects.
>
>Having said that, my experience is that Dynalist is one of the best
>outliners I have used. It is both easy and fast, as well as being
>aesthetically pleasing, by which I mean it is really easy on the eye.
>Apart from easy, fast, and aesthetically pleasing my experience with
>Dynalist is that it is great for working out ideas, keeping information,
>and planning.
>
>I wonder if there is any possibility at all that the developers of
>Dynalist would again support the program.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Daly
>