I agree with what Alan has said here about fearing the abandoning of the product.
I also was wondering what was going on with Dynalist since no updates had been posted. Iâve noticed âbug fixesâ but none of the features for which weâve been asking, posting, trello-ing, etc. I find myself in exactly the same boat with Dynalist that I found myself in with Workflowy a couple years ago. Hoping for features that have been talked about for years but have never materialized. While âreasonsâ (not enough people, personnel on leave, âdistractedâ by other projects, etc) can be made, there are things overlooked here. The first is that we do not buy Dynalistâwe rent it . This is the subscription model to which all software has been moving for years. If you think you own it, stop paying for a month and see what happens. Letâs not involve the âfree versionâ as it has features disabled on purposeâto get you to pay for the paid version, and thatâs OK. For the paid version the moment we stop paying, it stops working. Therefore, we pay for its continued maintenance and further development along with monthly server costs. If we werenât paying for future development, then why would we spend time with trello and forums and responding when developers say âplease add that to our suggestions for featuresâ. We shouldnât pay for bug fixesâbug fixes are mistakes that should be considered âthe cost of doing businessâ in the software development world. No software is perfect, but you allow for that in development and maintenance costs as a company. Any developer who doesnât lives in a fantasy world.
WYSIWYG, reminders, Siri integration and other items have been talked about for a long timeâŚsomeone noted that Workflowy went through a âlullâ like this for a time, then snapped out of it. Very true, and now it makes me wonder if, as said by Dynalist personnel, their focus is on something they deem more worthy of time that Dynalist (Obsidian) then we should look elsewhere for our application needs. That is their right, of course, to spend their dollars as a company where deem them most likely to make them money and survive. But it is our right as consumers to know that (and thanks to them for telling us so) so that we can look elsewhere for apps that may better suit our needs.
Knowing what Iâve just read in these recent threads the last few days stirs me enough to make a conscious effect to start researching my future outlining/note needs, knowing that at this point in time, Dynalist development seems stagnant and their primary focus elsewhere. Perhaps Obsidian will be that app once it stabilizes. Perhaps Dynalist will inherit all the good stuff from Obsidian and suddenly advance into an app that isnât âpainfulâ to maintain. Perhaps all the free users âhoggingâ development time and funds should be shut down to lower costs and redirect those efforts to paid Dynalist users. Not knowing the exact capital expenditures and user counts for free vs paid Dynalist users, I wouldnât presume to know if that would help, but perhaps it deserves consideration.