Anytype is a radically improved knowledge management tool for people who value their data. Use Anytype to make dashboards, projects, and knowledge graphs - all using our no-code editor. E2E encrypted 🔐 Local-first ❌☁️ P2P synced 👯♀️ Open source 💎
Hello, Product Hunt!
We are thrilled to announce the open beta for Anytype today!
We believe that any software should support fundamental digital freedoms. With the rise of cryptography and computer systems, it's now possible to guarantee these freedoms in the digital world: privacy of thoughts, freedom of speech, right to authorship, and autonomy from software providers.
With these principles in mind, we've crafted Anytype - an all-in-one tool that can help you organise your digital life. People use it to manage projects, organise collections of movies and books, for daily journaling, and a long tail of other use-cases.
Anytype is a community product, built with the community. We listen, we improve, and we welcome you to join and give your perspective on how Anytype should evolve.
Visit our community at community.anytype.io
We warmly welcome you to our contributors' community, which we just launched today:
https://github.com/orgs/anyproto...
We're happy to answer your questions!
Anton Pronkin Co-founder of Anytype
I have tried Notion, but it is too bloated. I have tried Roam, but it is too simple. But then came Anytype 2.0
I dont know how long I will be with Anytype 2.0 - but got to say so far it looks promising.
Few things I absolutely love
- P2P sharing : secure and decentralized
- Local first : I don't need the internet anymore
- Open-source : freedom and transparency
- Quick as a whip
Few things I feel could improve
- Learning curve is steep. Notion-look does help, however the object type is a new feature to understand how to use
- Couldn't find the graph view in the mobile app
- A few font options would have been great
- Couldn't find "code" object to represent codes/programs
Great job. @pronkin_ and team.
Thank you, Anytype team! This is what I’ve been wishing for. I can see this becoming my creative home base for a very long time. My big sticking point is that I make big notes with lots of sections, and I desperately need to “toggle” all levels of headings and text so I can see my thought topics and make my giant project pages manageable.
There’s a request for full toggle function in the community forum and a team member said it was definitely happening, already in the works. THANK YOU!!! Can you say when that’s rolling out? I’m 100% transferring all of my work into Anytype as soon as it does.
Waou amazing product! Seems look between Notion & Obsidian, powerful ! I will follow this project ! Do you project to push a multilangual version ?
Hello, Product Hunt! I've been looking forward to this big step forward for a long time. I am presently a Notion user: in our team, collaboration is crucial. What I would like to know is if Anytype can or will implement project tasks batching, in the way Marie Poulin described in her video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbR3xGSOjFI). This consists in being able to create different templates each one with a Project and a set of tasks (we are using buttons for this in Notion). Each time we start a new project we simply create it from a template. Note that the tasks included in the template at least with buttons, can have certain properties already set, and so can of course the main project. This is to avoid manual assignment of properties when dealing with task batches referring to the same project type. Thanks, and keep it up!
Amazing. Just having a functioning checklist task function puts it ahead of Notion when it comes to tasks. Now, It's not perfect. I'd like to see editing data in columns for multiple entries for example, having some kind of notification system, or reoccurring task function, but I'm sure the devs will keep iterating and improving the app.
I've come across one UI quirk that took me a while to figure out; changing the sorting from Ascending to Descending. It's not very obvious where to click to change it. I've found a workaround by doing it on the mobile app, before realizing you can just click on the word itself. Of course.
Speaking of the mobile app, I can't say enough praise on how much I appreciate that there even is an Android one. Most companies just release for iOS, if any, so to have on in a Beta stage is commendable. Not only that, It's FAST, functional and easy to use, unlike Notion's glitchy and slow mess.
Note taking wise I haven't had any complaints so far, but I need to test it more in the following days.
All in all a very promising future ahead!
That's great that more and more ideas have a version of an open-source product. I love this familiar notion-like design that you implemented.
Congrats on the launch! I just have one dumb question - how can I share the notes or pages? Or are these meant to be not shared/published online?
Very nicely done. While I resonate with the privacy-first messaging, I would advise talking about the model you enable where documents and thoughts can be interlinked, very similar to how it's done in our brains in real life. I believe Roam Research did a decent job at it, but it never really worked. All the best team :)
