Dynalist Revisited

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.

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