After switching from Notion to Anytype, I half switched back due to UX and other issues that the team is working hard toward address (I hope to be back soon!).
In my limbo, I’ve also been experimenting with Obsidian. One of the great things about Obsidian is that the data is all in text files, so you can open any markdown editor or viewer on the same directory to view or edit your files in a different way.
What I’ve found particularly useful is that this works great with IDEs like Windsurf, which will then allow me to query and edit documents without any additional integration.
In my understanding something similar, allowing AI to query and (maybe?) edit documents could be accomplished with a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that understands Anytype.
This would be a great way to allow people to use any AI infrastructure with Anytype, rather than forcing a specific integration or any at all on the user base.
I’m wondering if anyone is working on such a thing.
@anton Can you elaborate on this. What are the plans or is there any reading I can do about this?
I share similar feeling as the author of the post and I’m torn between Notion and Anytype and I really would like to finally see the conclusion on what solution to use in 100%.
What I’m missing the most is the programmatic way to access the knowledge in Anytype.
I’m now experimenting with AI agents to browse and explore all my knowledge as an a search/assistant helping me with my daily work more than just as query that looks for tags or specific words. Unfortunately it is not possible right now with Anytype as either it doesn’t have any assistant build in or provides programmatic access to knowledge(this is proffered way to have more freedom to choose the solutions available on the market or self-hosted ones).
What I’m missing the most is the programmatic way to access the knowledge in Anytype.
This is exactly the issue that stopped me being seriously invested in anytype, there is a lot to love, locality/privacy but at the same time access to the data is bottlenecked through exports options
hey @cyrcle@mmalyska@crystaln, apologies for the delay - we’ve been fully focused on building out the api.
the anytype api will enable programmatic access to your in-app data, adding a crucial piece that you’re currently missing. paired with ai models of your choice, you’ll be able to query, create, and manipulate your spaces and objects using natural language. mapping conversational input to structured api actions is gonna be enabled through the official anytype mcp server.
we’re finalizing some last decisions; you’ll be able to try it out very soon!
