This is the way.
Not yet. Anytype is really promising, especially if you feel it combines the best of Notion and Obsidian. However, there are certain aspects that have prevented me from fully transitioning to Anytype, and I believe this might be the case for others as well, or at least it is for me:
Features
- The ‘tab’ feature like the one in Obsidian.
- A calendar that combines task tracking and reminders.
- A timeline view.
- Breadcrumbs inside notes for easy navigation.
- The ability to find and search for text within images.
- A right sidebar for quick access to elements like the calendar, pages, and more, just like in Obsidian and Notion.
- Notion database
Issues
- The file/note explorer needs improvement. I would like to see the current active note highlighted in the file explorer so that I can easily determine my location when opening or creating notes.
- I’d also like the ability to change the order of notes, move notes within or outside of folders by simply dragging and dropping, and create new notes/pages directly from the file explorer, or delete notes, among other actions like in Notion.
- For tables, I want to be able to select specific cells from the table.
- support “Toggle heading”
With these mentioned features and solved issues I will be very ready to switch to Anytype from Notion immediately
What is this supposed to be exactly? Have you tried collections already?
it is not straight-forward in anytype. in addition, notion has both inline and sub-page database plus the supported database views.
I want to create a database either inline or in sub-page and directly modify the type of columns (files, date, checkbox, etc), upload things, etc.
I mean like a real database.
I have tried the collections but it doesn’t serve the purpose.
Notion is a great tool, and I see it will be great if anytype takes the same features from notion and adds its special touch to it
Relaunching the discussion 2 years later… What would be great would be to have a way to identify the media files that :
- are redundant
like when you add the same cover different pages, you upload the same files several times & should be able to clean this / if not simply be able to browse existing images… but that feature has been requested already.
to be able to redirect links to a single file & delete the redundant ones
- are not used in any object
With trial & errors, you end up deleting pages, sets, collections… but media that are linked stay in the base… you should at least have a question like “do you want to delete the page cover / the icone / the uploaded files?” in the condition that they wouldn’t be linked to anything else anymore once the object is deleted
This is great, but it would be nice to be able to somehow search for relations that don’t have any usage, so you can delete them that way - checking every relation could become a pain if you have a lot.
I echo the thoughts on showing images and media that are unused so you can delete them - looking at the file list in the space settings, there’s no way to tell what is safe to be deleted.
Related to that, I discovered a bug with the new multi-spaces feature - probably here isn’t the best place to report it. Basically, because images are saved once, it’s possible to link to an image from a different space. That’s great - saves space. However, deleting that image while having it set to open the most recent item on that space, I got stuck in a loop where I couldn’t access the space at all.
Clicking the switch to space button would try to load it, then it would just go back to the other space (I guess it tried to follow the link, realized it couldn’t, and killed the process.)
This is drastic for someone with a lot of data I guess, but that space was small so I just wrote it off as a loss and deleted it. I should have made a bug issue somewhere while I still had it…
Edit: I will maybe try to recreate the loop so I can help provide more info but I am probably quite busy for the next week or so.
Welcome to the Community @hearth and thanks for sharing your feedback!
Absolutely, please do! Sounds critical