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

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Posted by Amontillado
Feb 3, 2026 at 05:12 PM

Totally agree, although I have a little tolerance for proprietary file formats in some cases.

If I can understand enough of the format to extract my work, that’s a little bit of a safety net.

The worst, for me, is not being able to share specific documents with a second machine. I try to avoid the cloud, so individual documents I can carry around on an usb drive are my preference.

I stopped using TheBrain long ago. At one point I was tempted to reinstall but it puts everything you do in one database. No more individual Brain files.

Dave M wrote:
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

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