How come you use Dynalist rather than Notion?
I ask because I feel tempted to switch over and try Notion, but I would rather save time by not doing so. If you could trash talk Notionās faults thatād be great.
These are the features I canāt live without and that Notion lack:
Speed
Keyboard driven interface
Tagging
API
In the other hand Notion has this one feature with boards/tables.
My workaround currently is to link to a Airtable tableview from Dynalist
Itās not a like for like comparison.
Notion is a wiki reimagined. Dynalist is list making on steroids. If you like all your stuff in one place, you can embed Dynalist nicely in a Notion page. If you have to make a choice (why?) then, for text based go Dynalist, for media rich go Notion. For simple collaborations go Dynalist, for team collaborations go Notion etc etc
Itās the age old debate about multiple best of breed apps v the convenience of a single environment. Hasnāt stopped some one trick ponies from doing very well indeed nor, on the other hand, SAP from becoming a $30 billion company. A place for both.
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I donāt see where to embed a third party webpage (dynalist) in notion. Whatās it called? I just see import from workflowy, templatesā¦
EDIT: Ah I found it. + button on the list, then Embed. Wild.
EDIT2: Well this is flippin amazing. I can embed all my useful websites into one page. Iāve been wishing and looking for something like this for a long time. Wow!
EDIT3: I never have to leave notion. Itās my dashboard to everything. Dynalist works perfectly in it. Iāve just ascended to another plane of consciousness.
EDIT4: I guess some sites donāt work. 
Cant get facebook or gmail. Appearently servers can forbid loading in frames in the page headers. Welp, there goes my dreams.
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Yup, that was my conundrum when I discovered Moo.do through these forums.
Ultimately though I went with the best of breed so Iām sticking with Dynalist for my outlining/to-doāing (GMail for email, etc). Moo.do is a really cool idea but it still has some quirks and bugs to work out.
Since a lot of my to-doās and ideas come via GMail it would be nice if Dynalist tied in closer.
Some of the keyboard short-cuts that Moo.do has would be nice to see in Dynalist, like starting a line with left square bracket then a space makes it a checklist and starting a line with a 1. (one and period) makes it a numbered list.
Also it would be nice if the we could type !tomorrow and other relative dates instead of having to stop typing and fiddle with the date picker.
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You can integrate gmail via ifttt or zapier now that the API is released. What sort of integration are you after?
I have it integrated via Integromat, see Add to Inbox via IFTTT for the gory details.
Well, what I would really want is a menu item, like GMailās Add to Tasks but instead Add to Dynalist. And synchronization, so when I mark the task done in Dynalist and it will get archived in GMail, and if I put a date on the item in Dynalist it gets snoozed in GMail, and so forth.
For now I use the Dynalist clipper with the email open to add it to my Dynalist Inbox and then I archive it in GMail and muddle around with it in Dynalist.
I donāt know how much of that is possible with the GMail API.
Thinking about it a bit more, I guess the issue is that the to do is not the email, itās somewhere in the contents, but I need to keep the email easily accessible so once the task is done I can reply to the email. Also, the email might contain reference information.
So itās like two steps:
- Do whatever task(s) are described in the email
- Respond to the email that the task(s) are completed
So what i really want is an easy way to create tasks from an email that automatically include a reference to the original email.
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It may be that if your workflow is centered in Gmail the Gmail tasks app could be a better bet than trying to incorporate into Dynalist, at least for now. The new Gmail has some nice enhancements for the tasks app such as drag and drop email to create a task, and sub tasks. Apart from the Gmail side bar, you can access email tasks in a basic web outline view at https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas and also in a separate mobile app.
I was a big user of Google Notebook, too bad they killed it.
Google Tasks and Keep are nice, but theyāre pretty basic. Especially compared to something like Dynalist. I would be giving up too much just to get a bit of integration with GMail (and I use that term lightly).
Google could do so much more. Inbox is a nice try, but now that GMail is getting features from Inbox and Inbox is losing features itās looking like that experiment is coming to an end.
I canāt find this āembedā thing in Notion.
Type / then embed
I like the concept of Notion but find it sufficiently clunky that I would not use it. It is close though.
I would love if a lot of these page types could be inlined. Make a list and have a table below it, and then more notes after.
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Same here - this kind of thing is always a bit of a dream, but thereās always something thatās not quite right for me which is why I always come back to things like dynalist / workflowy that put minimal barriers on how I can organise my life - with apps like this I just end up getting frustrated that X doesnāt sync with Y etc etc - thereās always something annoying 
I think this would be a very good feature. Group or show columns based on a tag, bookmarks or search result, however it can be made to work simply.
To start, even if it worked like the mindmap view, i.e. a ready only visual layout and you could.
I use Notion with clients for tracking and organising projects, itās an amazing product, so is Coda.io. However I keep finding Dynalist ājust worksā for me personally, itās speed, simplicity, keyboard shortcuts. I just keep wishing I could get some kind of column layout and would be stoked if it could actually happen!
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wow, thatās deep!
because airtable can embed i gather
again how do you embed the dynalist in notion?
some sort of airtable workaround or just place a link to the list and it has to open in a new tab?
If you like all your stuff in one place, you can embed Dynalist nicely in a Notion page.
Check out workflowys fractal boards video here:
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This would be amazing - did anything like this ever happen?
nope.