Dynalist 4+

I understand this is primarily an outliner. But there is so much potential if this allowed data to be viewed interchangeably between the outline and mindmap based on your filters. The mindmap is an afterthought and so limited and clunky making it rarely useful. Transno is gone and nothing else does this cleanly.

There are no layouts options, there is no editing available, no way to add thumbnail images in the mindmap.

Obsidian is overly complex to get these core features and it doesn’t seem possible to get a straightforward outlining and minimizing setup out of it anyways.

Please developers. This is a paid service and it hasn’t been updated in years. Make the mindmap as useful as the outline or allow developers to create plugins for this like obsidian.

Is is perfect? No, but it *is* the best app I have tried (and I have tried them all) for organizing your writing. Dynalist in split screen with Ulysses or iA Writer is, without any real competition, the best writing experience on the iPad.

So, five stars. Not because there's nothing to improve, but because it's the best we've got, and if more people use it, maybe the developers will be able to spend time making this feel like an iOS app and a little less like a ported website. (Until then, the one bug which slowed me down at first has an easy fix : if you have it open with split screen and find the cursor getting captured by the OTHER app and not returning to Dynalist, use Command + Tab on your keyboard to switch back to the app.)

Dynalist Devs, thank you so much for making a truly useful app. If future versions felt a little less like a UI kit and a little more like Bear ... that would be wonderful, but take your time. This thing is worth getting right.

This app is so good that I still use it despite it being nearly abandoned by its developer for years now. It’s just soooo good. Like it’s so feature complete there’s basically nothing I can’t do on mobile that I can do on the desktop version. And it’s so well designed, all the common things I need to do are super quick and easy, none of my time feels wasted. And it’s super performant even on old devices. Seriously the devs made an incredible app and then abandoned it but I’m not even mad cause it’s still so good 😩 (there are definitely flaws and minor bugs but none of them significantly damage the experience at least for me)