Dotflowy

Dotflowy

Dotflowy is an open-source, fast outliner for capturing, organizing, and shaping ideas with real-time sync, tags/filters, instant search, and export to OPML/Markdown. It supports personal and team workflows and offers optional AI agent integration.

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Freemium Enterprise 70/100
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Best for: Personal & Entertainment

What it does

Productivity software for decision-makers comparing workflow fit and alternatives.

Best fit

Personal & Entertainment

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Dotflowy

Dotflowy is a calm, fast outliner and open-source alternative to Workflowy designed to capture thoughts quickly, shape them flexibly, and find them later. It offers one-keystroke capture, tags, filters, instant search, drag-and-drop nesting, zooming into items, real-time sync, and export to OPML or Markdown. Dotflowy is aimed at people who want a minimal, high-performance outlining workspace for personal thinking, notes, and collaborative outlines with seat-based plans and optional AI agent integrations.

Get everything out of your head, shape it when you're ready, and find it when it matters. A calm, fast, open-source outliner — a Workflowy alternative your AI agents can edit too.

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Key Features

Quick capture

Capture a thought in one keystroke so ideas are saved before they slip away.

Tags, filters & instant search

Find content quickly using tags, filters, and an instant search interface.

Nested outlining & navigation

Drag, nest, and zoom into any node to shape ideas like physical objects.

Real-time sync

Outlines sync in real time across devices.

Open source

Dotflowy is an open-source project and provides its app and GitHub presence.

Export formats

Export your outline data anytime to OPML or Markdown.

AI agent integrations

Connect Claude and other agents to your outline over MCP (available on paid plans).

Daily notes

Includes daily notes functionality as part of the editor experience.

Pricing

Free Tier Available

Full editor access for free, including daily notes, tags, filters, real-time sync, export to OPML/Markdown, and up to 10,000 nodes.

Free

$0
  • The full outliner, forever
  • Everything in the editor — daily notes, tags, filters, real-time sync
  • Up to 10,000 nodes
  • Export to OPML and Markdown

Unlimited

$5/mo or $48/yr ($4/mo billed yearly)
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited nodes
  • AI agents — connect Claude and other agents to your outline over MCP
  • Limited — 50 seats

Founding

$99 (one payment, covers 3 years)
  • Everything in Unlimited
  • Access for three years; renews after 3 years unless you cancel

Use Cases

Personal idea capture

Quickly capture fleeting thoughts and notes with one keystroke and retrieve them with tags and search.

Outlining and organizing projects

Shape ideas through nesting, dragging, and zooming to build structured outlines and plans.

Collaborative outlines

Use real-time sync and multi-seat plans to collaborate on shared outlines and team workflows.

AI-assisted workflows

Enhance outlines by connecting AI agents (e.g., Claude) over MCP to assist with drafting, summarization, or other agent-driven tasks.

Integrations

Claude and other AI agents (via MCP)

Connect external AI agents to your outline to enable automated assistance; mentioned as available on paid plans.

GitHub (open-source)

Project is open-source and hosted on GitHub (repository referenced from the site).

Benefits

Fast, minimal outlining interface that captures thoughts immediately.
Open-source project with exportable user data (OPML/Markdown) so your outlines remain portable.
Real-time sync and multi-seat plans support collaborative and multi-device workflows.
Optional AI agent integrations to extend outlining with automated assistance.

Limitations

Free plan is capped at 10,000 nodes; when the cap is reached you can read, edit, and export but cannot add new nodes until upgrading.
Unlimited plan notes a seat limitation (Limited — 50 seats) which may affect larger teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Getting Started

  1. 1 Visit https://dotflowy.com/ and click Start free to create an account (signups are open).
  2. 2 Use the editor to capture thoughts, create daily notes, add tags, and organize with drag/nest/zoom.
  3. 3 Export your data anytime to OPML or Markdown, or upgrade to a paid plan to unlock unlimited nodes and AI agents.

Support

Website

Primary access and account management available at https://dotflowy.com/ (Start free, Sign in, Open app).

GitHub

Open-source repository and issue tracker referenced from the site for reporting bugs or contributing.

API

Available: No

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