I find it hard to work on the browser. Too much clutter: the favorites, other tabsā¦
I canāt get a clean view even if I use only one window per tab.
But Iām using your suggestion to get a better workflow, thank you.
I find it so much easier to swap between windows when working on multiple, often complex content. Iāve worked in tabs, yet alt-tabbing to a new window allows uncompromised focus on that windows content/process.
Here is a work-around I am currently using:
Open your dynalist main document in Chrome(works for other browsers too). In chrome, menu>more tools>Create desktop shortcut with āopen as windowā enabled.
Go to desktop, copy the shortcut file. Then paste it again and again till you have 4 or 5 copies(as many as you need). Copy them all and paste them in your windows startup folder(win+r and type shell:startup, press enter). Now they launch on startup, you can let them sit in the background. Use them as needed but donāt close them.
Reasons:
The delay in loading dynalist when you open a new browser window/tab(upto 9 seconds for me). Once thatās loaded, you can switch between pages instantly as long as the page stays in memory. This workaround pre-loads several browser windows so you jump in and work on several documents side-by-side without waiting for the contents to load. Better for workflow.
I am using ācreate shortcut-open as windowā so the interface has less distractions and resembles the desktop app instead of chrome.
Another workaround for now: use the Vivaldi browser only for Dynalist, which even allows you to ātileā multiple tabs i.e. split screen - and if you use chrome for everything else, Vivaldi will be clean - you can even remove the UI entirely so itās nearly wall to wall dynalist.
My general setup is to have the dynalist windows app super squeezed to the right of my screen (I would pin it if windows let me) - everything else e.g. email sits in the remaining area of the screen so I always have 1 dynalist up (I should say I do almost everything in Dynalist including calendar etc so I need it constantly). Alongside that I have Vivaldi running two side by side tabs of Dynalist so I can easily have 3 instances up side by side whenever I want and regularly cut and paste between them etc
Yea it works well - it would be a bit fiddly if not for Windowsā excellent window-sizing gestures - when I open a new program I can drag it to the far left and it automatically extends to hug up against my dynalist window - lovely!
I tried the vivaldi workaround.Really liking it so far. Have improvised a bit. Attaching gif for a demo of what this workaround looks like.
If anyone is interested, you can download vivaldi portable version Using a standalone version of Vivaldi | Vivaldi Browser Help
and replace āUser Dataā folder with mine and you will have identical setup to the gif when you launch vivaldi.exe.
What exactly is hindering a multiple window solution? The default for Windows applications is to allow multiple instances, and DynaList works with multiple browser tabs, so why is this harder than just allowing more to be opened? Yes I understand interoperability between windows is a challenge but what about just opening more than one?
I agree it is really frusting.
We have different subjects in our notes and need to be able to navigate quickly in the arborescence.
I have to use a browser with different tabs instead of the app, just to have tabs with different important documents always opend.
Is there still no way to do this in 2024? I am just adding my voice here because itās something that I am really missing. I mean, I can just use the browser for sure, but that defeats the pont of having the app installed.
I am using a free version, though, and I am really glad that Dynalist is keeping the free version functional as opposed to WorkFlowy from which I migrated because I couldnāt afford to pay the subscription fee, which is not small there.