Today we’re sharing a prototype of how Collections 2.0 works, which is a major upgrade to the organisation system on Anytype. You can experience it by: Watching the video . Clicking through the prototype . For those who would like to learn more about this big initiative to improve Anytype’s knowled…

[image] woodsel: how do collection and object types differ? They don’t. In this new system, objects can have multiple types—which effectively means objects belong in multiple collections. When you create an object, it can be directly into a collection or it can be put into multiple collection…

[image] kaye: ‘Collect Once’ is really just a function inside a collection, it has a one-time effect. ‘Auto-collect’ is also just a function inside a collection, however it has continual effects. This is why we thought to call all of these ‘smart collections’ because they are functionally the sa…

1. On merging Collections and Tags via inline syntax [image] dxn0: I think that with this system it would just make 100% sense to merge collection and tag and having quick categorization with syntax #collection/subcollection. I completely agree with this. This is a highly anticipated feature…

[image] kaye: Our challenge is the mental model confusion. Traditional Query is clear, all objects are automatically aggregated based on a rule. Collect Once is clear, all objects are manually added by you. Auto Collect is fuzzy, some objects are added by you while others are added by the system…

[image] kaye: We definitely want to learn from community usage. We can foresee some users still having a lot of value from tags, while others may skip them entirely and just use collections. Tags could always have value, but probably much reduced than currently. [image] kaye: Our goal is…

[image] 360lime: It would be incredibly smooth if we could just type #collection-1 #collection-2 to instantly assign an object to multiple collections. Even better, we should be able to create new collections on the fly by simply typing #new-collection-name. We could then define its properties a…

Just an idea: to change the object title, based on the type Example: I have an object called “Webdesigner” (type = “role”), where I collect all the actual people that are in this field. And I have an object called “Webdesign" (type = “topic”) where I collect all the information, tools, ressources e…

Let me appreciate the works put into collection v.2.0: property and canvas now look more approachable together, and it is great to have power to organise properties; and quickly move onto the complicated things :sweat_smile::woman_facepalming: [image] kaye: Our challenge is the mental model con…

Hi. I’m a long time anytype user. Watched the video by @kaye . It did a good job of explaining how the new collections work, including all the new features. But it felt like it was a lot to take in. I didnt feel very inspired by it. It seemed like a bunch of features being described to me. I couldn…

[image] Shampra: Indirect question : For queries that are just queries (without adding a collection to the items they contain), like in my use cases, is that possible? This is why we have to learn from usage. There’s a world where we can package all of it into the (smart) collections system. …

Collections 2.0 Prototype—feedback is welcome

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Zak-from-Zork April 11, 2026, 8:26am 25

And that is what I mean with “Make collections as easy as tags", too.