Are you using Anytype with a lot of content/data?

I have a single object that take a lot of time to sync and create/delete bocks.
I don’t think it’s related to the amount of blocks inside the objects, since I have a couple of others similar where the slowness doesn’t occur.
It’s one of the first object I’ve ever created, with a lot of edits through time, so I think the long history of commits it’s slowing down the syncronization.

But for the rest of my experience I’m really satisfied

Interesting. If possible, would be useful to share that problematic object with the devs (not sure how) to see if they can get some insight from it (and hopefully avoid it happening again)

I think I have around 300-400 objects in my anytype. most of them has 15-20 lines worth of information, and around 20-30 of them are relatively long. all of my objects have its own custom icons uploaded by myself and under 10 images besides them. Lastly, nearly all of my objects are connected with each other as you can see having around 5-10 relations each.

Its an impressive graph view but I wouldn’t consider 400 object large, specially with just 15-20 lines of information in each object. I would hope anytype doesn’t suffer performance. :wink:

Starting at 10.000 objects or more I would consider it large and it should still not suffer performance then (or even higher 15.000 or 50.000).

If I look at my intended usecase for Anytype (or other note taking apps) I use it for daily notes (365 notes/year), my collections (movies (1000+), games (1000), Lego (100), etc), inspiration boards (500), life organizing (250), inventory (1000), etc.
This will quickly ramp up to 5000+ objects within one or two years if Anytype would become my daily driver which at this moment it isn’t for obvious reasons being so early alpha. :slight_smile:

So I hope that Anytype does get tested in the 10.000 or even 100.000 objects and still hardly suffer any performance!

Yeah, if I add up all my current systems (which I hope to one day transfer to only a single place - perhaps Anytype), my volume of data is similar.

I hate the idea of having multiple apps, one for each thing. I want all my tasks, calendar events, notes, projects, thoughts etc to be in the same place.

Many reasons for that, but some of the main ones are

  • I dread redundancy (same info in multiple places), especially when it leads to conflicting information
  • I want to be able to link/relate everything to whatever else
  • Avoid the cognitive load of jumping from one app to the next…

I know people say not to put all eggs in one basket, and I truly understand the advice (which makes me conflicted). But my desire to have everything together kind of overshadows anything else. To be honest, more and more I think I’m doing the wrong thing trying to integrate everything… I should just pick a set of apps/systems, and commit. :thinking:

Yeah you’re right. my database can’t be considered large by any means. I just wanted to report my own progress and usage. I too hope that Anytype doesn’t get bugged down over time.

I have about 3000 objects and I do experiencing very long syncing times on Android (on windows about 1,5h), minimal to rarely large delays when opening objects and delays when creating new objects or sets. The syncing time is the only major point i feel like should be improved urgently.

Would like to revive this thread to check how Anytype is dealing with large knowledge bases as of its latest releases.

I’m still limiting my usage of Anytype for testing purposes. Most of my data is still across a few apps - before moving it all over I want to be sure I won’t run into sluggishness or sync issues…

As mentioned in previous comments, by “large KB” I mean something in the lines of this:

Sync for the present moment isn’t the greatest. However, a lot of the present syncing issues will be fixed when Anysync is released :tada:

Yeah I saw in the townhall!

Though as much as it sounds exciting, realistically speaking when I heard they were writing their own protocol from scratch my first reaction was concern. As far as I know, these things usually take a long time to develop, test and mature.

PS: obligatory xkcd

Yes, that is my concern too.
Anyteam, Will AnySync still be compatible with IPLD or some broader open-web standard? I’d like this answered during the AnySync TownHall.

By the way, I have a question that maybe fits here better than in a post on its own:

Consider I have a large Set (with hundreds of items), currently showing only 20 items. If I change the sorting criteria, does that apply only to the currently shown items, or to the full Set (therefore, potentially resulting in some items being removed and some being added to the currently viewed items)?

I’d assume the sort should act on the full set, but I have no practical way to test this yet (as I don’t have hundreds of Objects).

I’d also assume its the same with Inline Sets, but would be good to confirm that too.

As far as I can test it filters and sorts all Objects in the set.

How is the performance in the beta app for you? Do you still have a lot of objects?

I am also curious if syncing etc have improved with the recent beta release?

I havent done the migration yet because of unsyncing objects but will soon update on this

I’m still in the process of migrating from Notion to Anytype Beta since I’ve been following and there have been big improvements across the board, especially with syncing.

I have a decent amount of objects and have only had minor issues, like the inability to select all objects in a set or collection (I could only select 20 objects at a time to bulk edit, for example).

I have noticed that for one of my objects that has upwards of 20k words, the iOS app doesn’t handle editing well. It’s slow to catch up with the text that I’ve typed, etc. I haven’t noticed any issues like that on Mac though.

I did have to zoom out to view all my objects on the graph :sweat_smile:

Celebrating my 6-month anniversary, congratulations to Anytype! You have successfully become the longest app I have used consistently for note-taking. :partying_face: I have created ~3000 objects in Anytype. No synchronisation problem, no lag problem.

As a heavy relation user, it usually takes 5-7 seconds to load the whole graph. I have to use maximise zoom out in both Anytype and system and it still don’t show all nodes. Considering everything needs to be decrypted, I would say Anytype manages it quite well so far.

Still waiting for Obsidian import to have an import that brings in more workable links.

Hi there!

So far everything great. 6 GB with files of all sorts anf several thousand objects. Works smooth fast.

You can normally use it, don’t bother losing data or so, this app has a VERY little rate of failure the same as some other apps like Obsidian.