Hi, I’m two days into Anytype, first post.
I’ve been using Coda for a while, mainly as a repository for reference data that I need to build for another system (its ability to build tables in a document and then be able to cut and paste is great) Anytype fulfils my desire not to be dependent on hosted services.
In my playing around I used the document safe box example from YouTube and tried building an object for drivers licences, so that’s my simplistic use case.
I have three drivers licences and my partner has two. So my object looks like
Licence.Human, Licence.Issuer, Licence.ExpiryDate, Licence.Name
To show these in a set I am compelled to use the Licence.Name field.
Licence.Name should be computed from Licence.Human.Name + Licence.Issuer.Name otherwise I have to type the Licence.Name field and make it something meaningful.
This is just my simple example, but pretty much any object that is a compound of other objects of different ownership and different issuer are probably going to be the same. I suppose I could use the licence number as the name, but then I’ve got a label title that doesn’t equate to what the contents are and also it won’t be very descriptive if I use that somewhere else.
So the ability to make relations computed based on the contents of other relations,