Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by iamwil on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:39PM
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Never tried dynalist. Used Workflowy.
Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph.
Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down.
Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.
Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph.
Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down.
Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.