I can vouch for workflowy. I've tried many to-do apps before, but workflowy is simple enough that I can structure it however I like and never feel like I've missed something. Unfortunately, I don't know how to handle repetitive tasks like dusting every two days.
Workflowy is the only list maker that I've ever stuck with. Most of them are so over-designed. I don't need videos and voice reminders and all kinds of nonsense; just compact, structurable lists.
I really like Dynalist.io I've been a user for about 6 months now. The mobile experience is surprisingly very good as well. Also their team is very transparent and responsive about their bugs and features (requests and planned). Finally they made it as an evolution to workflowy, which I find they've succeeded at.
This seems like an interesting approach to organize data. Are there any open source implementation that I can customize myself and host on my own personal server?
I have a self-hosted solution. It's in an alpha state, not ready for public consumption, but would love any feedback from people willing to try it out. Here it is:
I just tried dynalist.io and it is really nice.
I use Todoist everyday because of its simplicity and ease-of-use especially when making sub-lists. I didn't stick with Workflowy because it was too simple. But looking at dynlist.io, it might be what I've been looking for, with the right balance between simplicity and practicality.
Anybody care to enlighten me what this does other than being a simple outliner? I tried to find out, but, why not just use an outliner? What am I missing?
It IS an outliner. I tried using outliners back 10 years ago and became frustrated with options available. There were no good online outliners and the best desktop outliner, OmniOutliner, is only available for Mac. I tried a bunch on Windows but they were really buggy or didn't meet my needs. Then Workflowy came out and just worked.