Category Archives: Updates

Weekly update: 2018 week #3

This is our weekly update for the 3rd week of 2018. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Feature

  • [Payment] Added ways to change billing cycle and credit card information (available on the Account Settings page).

Improved

  • [Settings] Moved account and payment related settings to the standalone Account Settings page so the app settings popup is cleaner.

Fixed

  • [Import] Fixed cannot import OPML that contains certain Unicode characters.
  • [Copy/paste] Fixed copied newlines aren’t correctly encoded as Windows format (“\r\n” instead of just “\n”) on Windows.
  • [Copy/paste] Fixed spaces copied as non-breaking spaces.
  • [Selection] Fixed cursor disappearing if you press Down on an empty current root item.
  • [UI] Stop auto-detecting RTL languages before we can correctly position the rest of the UI (bullet points and checkboxes, most notably).

Weekly update: 2018 week #2

This is our weekly update for the 2nd week of 2018. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Event

  • Join our 2018 New Year’s Resolution event for a chance to win lifetime Dynalist Pro! Looking forward to hear what ambitious goals you guys are going after this year.

Fixed

  • [UI/minor] Disabled automatic RTL language detection since bullet and checkboxes are still on the left.

Weekly update: 2018 week #1

This is our weekly update for the 1st week of 2018. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Ongoing

  • We’ve been catching up with piled up support tickets and forum posts from the holidays.
  • We’ve started planning and working on revamping some legacy part of Dynalist, including payment/subscription and account settings.

Weekly update: 2017 week #52

This is our weekly update for the last week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Fixed

  • [UI/minor] Fixed “Add note” option incorrectly show up for the current root item when it already has note.
  • [Minor] Made the “Clean up newlines” option not show up by default.
  • [Minor] Fixed wording on the download page; the desktop apps are no longer in beta.

P.S. We’ll be on semi-vacation for one more week during the holidays, during that time we might be a bit less responsive. Just FYI! And happy New Year!

Weekly update: 2017 week #51

This is our weekly update for the 51st week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Fixed

  • [Mobile] Fixed date picker not being scrollable on mobile (available on mobile web right now, coming to the mobile apps soon).
  • [UI/minor] Fixed color label only working for the first line of the current root item.
  • [UI/minor] Fixed browser default right click menu covers date picker when right clicking on a date.
  • [UI/minor] Fixed highlight overdue items in red not working on items with color labels.

P.S. We’ll be on semi-vacation for two more weeks during the holidays, during that time we might be a bit less responsive. Just FYI! And happy Christmas!

Weekly update: 2017 week #50

This is our weekly update for the 50th week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Fixed

  • [UX] Fixed Dynalist doesn’t auto-scroll when you use Ctrl+Up/Down to move multiple items beyond the screen.
  • [UX] Fixed having to click on an item first in order to start selecting.
  • [Markdown] Fixed tags inside formatting, for example “**#tag**”, are not properly displayed or searched.
  • [Search] Fixed document root notes not shown in Search Everywhere results.
  • [Date] Fixed “today” items not matched by “within:tomorrow”.
  • [UI/minor] Fixed hard-coded “Ctrl+O” on the “No document is open” blank screen. It should be “⌘O” by default for Mac users, and whatever you customize it to be if you have customized it.

P.S. We’ll be on semi-vacation for three weeks during the holidays, during that time we might be a bit less responsive. Just FYI!

Weekly update: 2017 week #49

This is our weekly update for the 49th week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Feature

  • [iOS app] Added Share to Dynalist inbox to iOS app. Now you can share text and URL to Dynalist. Coming in iOS version v1.1.22, which is being reviewed right now.

Improved

  • [Mobile app] Now the mobile app menu sync status correctly distinguishes between “Synced” (sent to server) and “Saved” (saved to device locally).
  • [iOS app] More speedy tap response.

Fixed

  • [Inbox] Fixed non-Pro users no being able to capture content on mobile apps.
  • [Copy paste] Fixed pasting removes Markdown formatting.
  • [Copy paste] Fixed copy paste not working on latest Edge.
  • [UI/minor] Fixed can’t use Up arrow key to go from beginning of second in note to the first line.

Weekly update: 2017 week #48

This is our weekly update for the 48th week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Ongoing

  • We spent some time fixing an issue regarding releasing updates for the iOS app, and we have contacted Apple about it. Hopefully it will be resolved soon!

Improved

  • [Android] Now Share to Dynalist works when Dynalist is not loaded in background (released in 1.1.19).

Fixed

  • [Sharing] Fixed a rare edge case issue where a collaborator could create a circular dependency.

Weekly update: 2017 week #47

This is our weekly update for the 47th week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Improved

  • [Mobile app] We added a bunch of performance optimizations to v1.1.18.
    In our large test document, the time to interaction1 has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds, and for the small test document the time has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second.
    More work will be done to both further cut down time to interaction and to fix the sluggishness with scrolling after the document loads.

Fixed

  • [Editor] Fixed issue with line break insertion. Before, you need to press Enter twice in order to insert the first line break in a note or item. For more information, please see the PSA.
  • [Editor/minor] Fixed Up key not playing nicely with empty lines in the middle of the note, when pressed at the beginning of a line (link to bug report).

1. Time to interaction is the time required to start interacting with the document.

Weekly update: 2017 week #46

This is our weekly update for the 46th week of 2017. The features and fixes might arrive at the desktop and mobile app a few days later than the web version.


Feature

  • Share to Dynalist inbox on Android, released in mobile app v1.1.17.

Improved

  • [Mobile] v1.1.7 was released today and it’s a huge update. Head over to this post to read what’s in v.1.17. It’s available for Android right now and will come to iOS shortly after.

Fixed

  • [Tag pane] Fixed minor tag sorting issue where “#NASA” would come before “#apple” when sorting alphabetically.
  • [Desktop app] Fixed links to local image files not working on the desktop app.