When comparing Dynomantle vs Trilium Notes, the Slant community recommends Trilium Notes for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform tools for personal knowledge management?” Trilium Notes is ranked 7th while Dynomantle is ranked 19th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Tracks reading progress
You don't have to read a newsletter or long blog post in one sitting anymore.
Pro Gets spam out of your inbox
Tool provides randomly generated emails that you can use to sign up for services. Now you don't have to worry about someone selling your email address.
Pro Let's you search your bookmarks
All the web pages you bookmark can be searched, which makes it easier to find things.
Pro Note encryption
Pro Free and open source software
Pro Excellent WYSIWYG interface
Pro Attributes that can be assigned to nodes and inherited
Pro Graph of node connectivity
Pro Note versioning
Pro Synchronization with a server
You can set up synchronization but you need a server to do this.
Pro Database storage rather than files
This enables the tool to do a lot of things that would be difficult with plain text file storage.
Pro Archival functionality
Cons
Con No offline access
It is a browser only tool.
Con Interface can be confusing
There is a fair amount of flexibility to the interface but it can also become confusing, especially when some parts are not necessarily simple to use. Most of the basic features nevertheless are intuitive.
Con Database storage rather than files
This makes it a little less simple to work with (also has benefits).
Con Not markdown
It will import and export markdown but it does not store content as markdown. This isn't necessarily a problem if you don't need it.
Con Synchronization requires use of Trilium's sync server
This can be problematic to set up unless you have a web server that will support the requirements of this.