I am really, really having trouble understanding why there are so many editor bugs in Anytype. Literally every single time I write more than one sentence I stumble over this bug. Now I realized that copy-paste does very weird things. Then there are at least some fundamental issues with grid sorting ,…

[image] Obsidian: I can definitely say that Anytype is the clear winner to build a second brain in. Although I really love Anytype, but … No backlinks for images! That makes it unusable for so many use cases that strongly depend on images! No WYSIWYG! You simply can’t design a form that l…

I hear your pain - this is probably why the software is still in beta. I’m sure the backlinks for images etc would be addressed by the team when they have cycles. It’s also sad that this project will no longer support good performance HDD. However, when it comes to innovative local-first software, …

[image] Obsidian: I’m sure the backlinks for images etc would be addressed by the team when they have cycles. I think the backlinks are so important that they should at least be listet in the Roadmap (even on first position!). But there is no entry. The need for the backlinks is not new btw. …

for backlinks you mean backlinks to images?

I mean, if I have a query for images and I open one of the images shown there, I urgently need to find the Pages that use the image in it! Let’s say, I have a database about flowers. For each flower I make a Page that describes the flower and has an image in it. Later (days or weeks or months lat…

Unfortunately, I don’t quite understand the desire for backlinks for objects like images. Assuming an image is used on 1000 different pages - what good would 1000 backlinks on 1000 pages that use the image do me? I would rather like Anytype to finally make it possible (as it has been implemented in…

[image] VisualNotes: Unfortunately, I don’t quite understand the desire for backlinks for objects like images. Assuming an image is used on 1000 different pages - what good would 1000 backlinks on 1000 pages that use the image do me? First, this is (for me) an unrealistic case. But even then…

[image] krst: As someone who observes discussions around this for more than 20 years I can safely say that the general public just doesn’t care. Sorry. It’s just like that. Interesting take. In the past 20 years, you didn’t notice an increase in interest for privacy on the internet? I saw a h…

[image] VisualNotes: I don’t quite understand the desire for backlinks for objects like images please let’s not do any „not my use case, so you might be wrong“ remarks. i hit that limitation on day 2, and he gave multiple explanations. if in doubt the team could cast an „official vote“ and co…

[image] flypenguin: if in doubt the team could cast an „official vote“ and communicate the result. also, EVERYTHING has backlinks, it just makes SENSE. The is an “official vote” here: [image] Images shoud have links to source object Feature Requests WHA…

Editor (and overall software) quality – some priority here, please?

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sturdily June 7, 2025, 11:24am 102

The is an “official vote” here: