Concerns about the current, allegedly severe limitations of the export function?

[krst]

an API is nice and good but what could my non-tech-savvy relatives do if they want to export their entire vault to human readable files that they can open and use elsewhere?

Because of this

Export relations data in Markdown as YAML frontmatter

it would be nice if relations and properties could be included in frontmatter. currently this missing feature has also consequences for built in types like bookmarks. it’s not possible to do a reasonable markdown export at the moment. this is how standard notes does it: [image] there we have an explanation that some elements don’t translate 1:1 (but the content at least gets carried over). and there is an option for including frontmatter which results in this: --- title: Montag, 5. Mai 20…

I cannot recommend Anytype to anyone who fears they will lose data if Anytype is not there anymore or they want to try something else.