This might be on the list already but I couldn’t find it.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Be able to integrate with other systems, in order to add, access or modify content. This would allow to automate things, e.g. add a note via HTTP Request or automatically share notes on the web.
Scripting might be helpful for conveniently adding items like today’s date, do some calculations like word count, etc.
Describe the solution you’d like
API to access content and to trigger a webhook or script when new content has been added.
And, some kind of “scripting block” to add script-based actions like calculations, etc.
Describe alternatives you’ve considered
Except for manual import and export, right now, there seems to be no way for automation and integration with other tools.
Additional context
I understand something like the ability to add own apps is planned already. Maybe this goes into the same direction.
By scripting according to the use case @roncz mentioned I presume that he meant to say formulas like notion has or did i understand him wrong. I think allowing for modifications in the file type is not feasible as this would mean allowing for modifications in the file processor.
Thank you for your reply. By scripting I mean something like the good old VB Script in Office. I have seen something like this in Trilium where they support Java Script to interact with page content. For example you can add a button and a field to a page to track your weight. Then the page displays a graph. Not sure, might be a bit to special, at least for now. However, I find the concept to have scripts to interact with page content quite nice.
@div3xi, I can surly mark the request as answered, but somehow I am missing how to do this. I just see the Reply and Follow options. Can you please let me know how I can mark this question as answered?
As per my understanding, right now things like plugins/api are not a short term priority (makes sense) but it’ll be at one point at it’ll also be one of the most important features. Sometimes it is difficult to understand which use cases one may have for a plugin/api so I’ll start with some examples of things I’d like to be able to develop:
Improved book experience.
Ideally creating a Book object on anytype should not need for me to manually fill all values and relations. I’d like to develop a plugin/extension which lets you introduce an ISBN, for example) and it’ll create a book for you with all the relations already filled. Furthermore it’ll be able to create author objects (Human) for you. This will also need some kind of solution to create UI/UX forms in the same UI/UX style as anytype’s.
Contact Synchronization
This may be something that the team will tackle in the future, I do not know, but it doesn’t matter, the example is good enough to understand the needs. Probably an SDK will be needed in order to develop applications outside of anytype that feed on the data of a user on the anytype IPFS network, in this case the application would use this SDK to maintain my gnome/android/whatever contacts synchronized with Anytype.
Save to anytype
Another example of the necessity of an SDK to interact with anytype somehow, I’ll just straight up tell you about a real use case that Notion is taking advantage of. Draw.io (the web application which let’s you do flows and stuff) has an option to save directly to Notion, I’d love that feature on Anytype too, also it would be nice to be able to update certain files/objects with the SDK so I could for example list all my drawio flows on the webapp and modify them and they’ll be saved on their own instance/representation on another page. It’d be also very useful in order to save websites and stuff directly from a browser extension.
If you are a developer or user which would like a feature that clearly does not fit inside the base anytype, comment your use case here, it’ll probably help Anytype’s developers understand the needs of their userbase in order to develop a usable tool.
@lucasmmarino If we can synchronize contacts, i also would love if we can synchronize media files as well, maybe an MP3 player which fetches songs and meta deta from anytype and streams them
if we can get a gallery view, then we can also replace google photos with anytype
I would love to have a plugin where once we embed video or youtube link, we can easily create timestamp link and take notes there itself.
This will be game changer. Notes will be more accessible and we could easily go through what is needed at the moment rather than watch the video again.
@Narvey You cannot interact with the Anytype file format at present. Presumably this will be open along with the rest of the code in the future. In fact it will likely be a phased availability of some parts of Anytype (e.g. SDK/API, or file format), before full open source, as far as I understand. This is all planned for the future, but with no specific release date. So many things will be possible then though!
Notion has something like embedding a URL inside a page which was used to [embed widgets](https://apption.co/) as well. I’m not sure that this needs to be a native feature of anytype but probably a plugin with steps on how to create an embedded widget sounds like a great use case to me since the Notion Embeddable widgets are more like a hack than an actual feature
