I’m trying to understand why sharing is organized by documents on Dynalist, rather than by bullet point, as in Workflowy.
I gather that the only thing I can share on Dynalist is an entire document. So suppose I have all my notes across various projects in a single document. I want to share notes from a single meeting. In Workflowy, this is trivial: just share that meeting. In Dynalist, it seems like I either need to:
- share my entire notes document for everything I take notes on
- break up my document structure by pulling the notes from that meeting into a second document
I won’t take the first option. That means that every meeting probably becomes a separate document in a folder of meetings so that I can choose who can see what meeting’s notes. Another option is I make a copy of the meeting’s notes and share that, but then the copy doesn’t get updated if I make an edit to the original and vice versa. This whole thing might happen over again when (to make up an example), I realize I want to share one recipe without sharing all my recipes, but I was keeping all my recipes in a single document. And then it happens again when I want to share just one my various trip itineraries, etc.
Instead of keeping track of the relationships between my notes with one system (nested lists), I now have to manage two systems (nested lists in documents, documents in a folder system) that do almost the same thing, and I constantly have to figure out whether the work I’m doing should go in separate documents (to enable selective sharing) or one document (to make a single cohesive nested-list structure of related content).
So I’m just wondering if I understand sharing correctly, and if so, what are the best ways to deal with sharing content selectively for someone used to sharing individual bullet points on Workflowy?