Hi friends! Last week was an exciting week for Dynalist as usual. Lots of great things going on, although some of them are not visible to you guys right now (it will soon!). The visible things are:

Features

• Added new option to use bullet to zoom. This basically swaps the position of zoom and collapse/expand. For people who zoom more than expand/collapse, check out this option! It’s in Settings → Preferences → Control.

Improvements

• Fixed the oversized Export popup on mobile.
• Added the “Expand all/collapse all” option for document title. Before, you’d double click, but now that the document title is editable, we don’t want the double click behavior any more since that’s also how many people select a word.
• Improved our sync to prevent Can’t Sync errors when you move large lists. That makes what needs to be sent 4 times smaller. We also increased the size limit on our server so we can receive larger changes. Rarely, it still happens, and we’re still investigating why. If you run into this situation, let us know!
• The mobile interface now appears under 500 pixels on desktop. Before, it was 800 pixels, and for some computers that’s 2/3 the entire width. With the new 500 pixels break point, the mobile interface only appears when you resize the window to be really narrow, but the sidebar would still be there when you resize the window to half of screen width.

Bug fixes

• Fixed left sidebar would glitch and appear for a second as you resize the window to be narrower.
• Fixed bug where when you click on a search result in Search Everywhere and go back in your browser, a blank screen would appear.
• Fixed date picker can’t be triggered on a French keyboard.

See you next week! 🙂

These are the changes happened to Dynalist last week:

Improvements

• We updated all of the icons! They are now consistent and thinner. The size of the bullet point is also tuned down slightly. Hopefully this makes the interface a bit more lightweight.
• Added “first day of week” setting for dates. If you prefer seeing Monday as the first day of the week, you can do that now.
• The search tip options are now clickable. That’s the box that appears under the search bar when you start searching in the document. You can click them to either search in all documents or insert a search filter.
• The left pane is thinner when closed to save more space.
• You can now go back and forth between the date part and the time part inside the datepicker with Tab.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug on iOS where a blank white screen would cover everything when you edit.

Until next time, take care! 🙂

This is the latest from Dynalist:

Improvements

• Now you can jump to the time picker inside the date picker with Tab.
• Redesign of the iOS node toolbar. We added a few options, and because they cannot fit on a single line, now you can slide between two parts of the toolbar.
• Added the “Add date” option to node toolbar, and now you can open date picker either by using this option or tapping on an existing date.
• Document title is now editable right inside the document, cheers!
• It used to be the case that it’s hard to focus on an item. There’s some space between the items and on the right end of the screen, and tapping on this space doesn’t trigger focus on any item. Now focusing on items are made much easier.

Feature

• Not exactly a feature for existing users, but we added a new onboarding tutorial. As an existing user, you can take a look at the tutorial as well if you’re interested. Simply open the main menu and choose “Tutorial”.

Bugs

• Fixed copying and pasting from websites like Wikipedia would screw up the line breaks.
• Fixed logged in user shouldn’t be able to see the demo page. Last week one user mistakenly thought the demo page was her own Dynalist, so we added the redirect and explicit warning on demo to prevent this kind of confusion going forward.

That’s it, have an awesome week guys! Also good luck to anyone who’s starting school this week 🙂

Hello y’all! Last week was a productive week for Dynalist:

Improvements

• Changed the style of all existing tooltips. Now they have a consistent look and update in real time when you toggle stuff.
• UI improvements for buttons and input fields. Hopefully they look simpler and flatter now. Some people complained that some parts of our UI look a bit too 2008 🙂
• Move shortcut help panel to the right so that it doesn’t cover your content when you have it open.
• Added search tip to search bar to make the search modifiers more discoverable.
  
• Now you can pick dates in the date picker with arrow keys!
• Improved the UI of the view filter options. We have to admit that it was pretty confusing before, and hopefully it’s easier to understand and to use now.
  
• Added the “edited:” search modifer. Now you can search for recently edited items, e.g. search for “edited:7d” to bring up all items that were changed during the past week.
• Optimized how date picker and tag/link suggestion popup are displayed. Before, the date picker would display below the current line even if there’s not enough space. Now they would appear above the current line if there’s more space there.

Bug fixes

• Fixed file misalignment in the file pane on mobile.
• Fixed node toolbar misalignment on iOS. Before, the black toolbar was not centered on the screen because of miscalculation.

That’s it, hope you guys liked it. Have an awesome week and we’ll see you next week!

Welcome to a new week! Here’s what’s new from last week:

Features

• Keyboard shortcut customization (Pro feature) is here! Read more about it in its announcement.

Improvements

• The current date (today) is now highlighted in the date picker.
• We updated our backup system from Dropbox API v1 to v2.

Bug fixes

• Fixed node toolbar too wide to fit in the screen on mobile by moving some lesser used options to “More options”.
• Fixed checkbox position in heading items.
• Fixed Dynalist document links appearing as normal external links.

See you next week! 🙂

We’ll keep this update short: last week we fixed two bugs related to renaming files. Before, when you create a new file and give it a name, the renaming would be interrupted when a sync happens and it would appear that what you typed disappeared. Another bug we fixed is that the focus would jump to the first item when you double click to rename a file. Sorry about the bugs!

While we haven’t forgotten about  desktop and mobile apps, in the next few weeks we’ll spend more time fixing existing bugs and improving performance to improve the overall Dynalist experience.

Last but not least, we also worked on a new Pro feature this week, which will be announced next week. Stay tuned! 🙂

We’ll keep this update very short.

Last week we released dates, and as a result we spent some time polishing this feature and fixing related bugs. Most notably, the “has:date” filter is added.

We also polished the UI. Below is a before & after for the left sidebar; we also made a few improvements across the app. The overall UI is flatter and borders are less pronounced. We will continue improving and simplifying the UI as that’s one of the main complaints we got from the survey we sent out.

There were also “invisible” work going on, but we’ll give updates when there’s something visible to show.

That’s it, thanks for reading, and have a wonderful week y’all!

It’s been another good week at Dynalist! Here’s what’s new —

Features

• Bookmarks are now searchable in File Finder (Ctrl+O)! 🔖
• Date support is finally here, woohoo! We’ll cover the specifics in other feature announcement post, but we want to include it here for completeness’ sake.

Bug fixes

• Fixed NaN% file upload quota bug after getting the free trial. Now it properly shows 0%.
• Fixed bug where the page would auto-scroll when you’re writing in a long note field and the top of the note is currently out of view.

That’s it, have an awesome week you guys, see you next week! 🙂

Hello y’all! It’s been a busy week at Dynalist:

Bug fixes

• We patched a bug where “Can’t sync” error arises when large changes are made (like moving large lists and paste in lots of data). This should stop happening for now.

Improvements

• Moving an item up and down is now available on mobile. Woohoo!
• Multi-item copy ✂️ & paste 📋 used to copy everything, no matter if it’s visible or not. This makes copying search results hard. Now only visible items are copied (except in OPML format, where everything is copied), so you get what you see.
• Now caret focus location is preserved when zooming out with keyboard shortcut. Yay!
• For German users, the shortcuts to zoom in and out weren’t working, as square brackets work completely differently in the German keyboard layout. Now we added a new keyboard layout setting for German 🇩🇪, under which you can zoom in with Alt+Right and zoom out with Alt+Left, bypassing the bracket problem.

Features

• Last week we spent the most time working on date support. You guys have been waiting for some time, and we think you deserve a sneak peek into this upcoming feature! 📅

  

  Please note that no details are final yet! This is just a preview. We’re working on the final polishing and testing to make sure it looks pretty and works in all major browsers. Timezone is also a pain, but we’re getting there! 💪

• Another small feature that we rolled out last week is the new “Export visible items only” option in Export. If you don’t want to export items that are filtered by search or whatever, use this option!

If things don’t go terribly wrong, we should be able to release date support before the next weekly update 😍. See you then! 👋

We’ll keep this week’s update very brief:

1. Biggest news: we’re halfway through building dates! Super, super excited about this! 🎉
2. We rewrote our markdown recognition algorithm to prepare for dates, which broke some other stuff. So if you saw HTML links disappear last week… that was our fault. It’s all fixed now, thank god (and Shida).
3. After fixing copying multiple items in Safari the week before last week, copy and paste was broken in Firefox. We spent quite some time to every major browser happy.
4. As a side note, last week we helped two users recover their data. We recently started tested part of the offline system in production, which involved huge sync protocol changes. So the reports really scared us.
   But as it turned out, one request was due to a copy and paste bug on Firefox, and the other “data loss” report was due to logging into the wrong account and therefore “losing everything”.
   Two false alarms, but the good news is, with no one reporting actually losing data so far, it means the new offline prototype is running pretty smoothly! 👏 This gives us a lot of confidence in using it in desktop and mobile apps.

So see you next week! Hopefully we’re be a lot closer to releasing v1.0 date support 🙂