Why I'm switching back to Workflowy

I had to stop using Quick Dynalist a few days ago. It kept saying, “Unable to locate your Dynalist Inbox”. There seemed to be no way to fix that, and I got no response from the developer after I emailed him.

So I switched to the Dynawrite app. Works flawlessly on Android for me, and on iPad mini. (I have no iPhone, but I presume it works correctly on iPhone as well.)

Weirdly enough, Dynawrite wasn’t working properly for me on the 10-inch iPad Air and the 13-inch iPad Pro. I discovered that this is because it loads the desktop version of Dynalist instead of the mobile version, on those two larger iPads, and it kept appending the newly submitted Inbox items to the Inbox title, instead of as its (sub)items.

The solution for that was to move my Inbox to the very top of my Dynalist hierarchy, as a separate document, and now it works properly with Dynawrite everywhere.

It was quite a chore to figure this out, but that’s how I address David’s concern of “waiting 3 to 6 seconds before editing”. On mobile, I prefer to put as many edits as possible into my Inbox, sorting it out later (once a day, every evening) on my desktop machine where the work environment is more stable.

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