AnyType for Zettlekasten

[tisay]

Hi y’all.

I want to use AnyType for the Zettlekasten method. Here is how I have managed so far based on this YouTube video:

• Created a custom object type for fleeting notes (initial annotations) with custom note templates for notes
• Created a custom object type for literature notes (summary/key points) with custom note templates for notes
• Created a custom object type for permanent notes (organizing for an article to write) with custom map content template - this is where you link to the fleeting/lit notes and create the knowledge graph.

Here are my questions:

• Is there a more efficient way to manage the custom object types/templates?
• I am stuck on the permanent notes bit. I need to be able to setup bi-directional linking (i.e. in each of the notes, I need to be able to link to other notes). Then I need the knowledge graph to show the relations between fleeting, literature, and permanent notes. This is trivial in Obsidian using the [[Link]] notation, is there an equivalent?

I know this is vague, so I will try to clarify if folks have questions. Thanks in advance!

[Konstantin]

Oh, that’s interesting. I would like to visually see how you did it.

[sambouwer]

Hi @tisay, thanks for sharing your setup with us!

@tisay

Is there a more efficient way to manage the custom object types/templates

Not yet, unfortunately. There is a feature request for allowing updated/changed templates to be applied to existing Objects (in bulk).

Option to apply template to an existing object

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I find myself too often making changes to a template. With this change, I would like to apply these template changes to existing objects. I have to do it manually for all my objects. Describe the solution you’d like Would be great to have a feature to apply changes to a template to existing objects. This option could be optional - depends on the end user if he/she wants to apply changes to the template to existing objects.

@tisay

This is trivial in Obsidian using the [[Link]] notation, is there an equivalent?

There are feature requests for that, too!

Automatic Bi-directional linking + Rollups / Transclusion

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In Notion there is a way to make two-way/synced relations. In Anytype there is currently no way to reflect a two-way relation directly in sets expect for having a normal-relation and then looking into the navigation dialog of an object to find out which relation is linking to this object of the same type. But I think this can be a bit clunky if you want to use some sort of two-way relation. Describe the solution you’d like I can t…

Support [[ double brackets for linking (in addition to "at" symbol)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. While I’m aware of and use the @ symbol to link to pages/objects, it is more often a convention used for “mentioning” people. Some apps, like Notion or ClickUp, do use @ for all kinds of linking, but more broadly it is definitely associated with “people”. And an increasing number of tools are making heavy use of [[ double bracket linking, both in the actual writing process (invoke search-to-link inline), as well as in export/import …

You probably guessed by now that there are no built in solutions apart from doing this manually for now.