First impression(As a heavy onenote and obsidian user)

[owent]

Hi Everyone:

I’m a heavy onenote and obsidian user and I also used joplin before.I’m looking for a note software which can manage all my notes,documents and private files with good editor and I find anytype maybe a good alternative.

About My first experience with Anytype:

• Good interactive
• Hard to migrate from markdown now

Suggestion & feedback

• Use system setting to decide to use light or dark theme by default
• Ctrl-p should not change the theme to light temporary
• Click edit title of a page, sometimes the old title is removed.
• Allow to remove objects on list view of a set.

What I would wish for:

• Custom font family, font size, page width and etc.
• Markdown futures: Table, quote
• Dashbord to view all my resource as a tree view
  • It seems to generate a lot pages by some action, how can I remove them?
• Copy from markdown
• Custom keymap
• How can I move pages from old object type if I change the object type of a set?
• Column editing(multiple line editing)

Thanks for making this awesome tool.

[Angelo]

Such wonderful feedback! Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with us. Has Anytype proven to be useful to you in the meantime?

[sambouwer]

@owent

• Ctrl-p should not change the theme to light temporary

Thanks for this feedback! It seems there is no bug report for this yet. Are you willing to submit a bug report for this?

[Angelo]

Was this feature request submitted eventually?

[sambouwer]

@owent I’m linking some additional existing topics for you to checkout as they might match your requests:

@owent

Use system setting to decide to use light or dark theme by default

I think this is happening already

@owent

Ctrl-p should not change the theme to light temporary

I can’t find a bug report for this. Please try to reproduce the issue and submit a bug report if this is still present for you.

@owent

• Click edit title of a page, sometimes the old title is removed.

I’ve never experienced this issue and I cannot find anu existing bug report. Please try to reproduce it and submit a bug report if the issue is still present for you.

@owent

Allow to remove objects on list view of a set.

If you mean you’d like to delete the Objects listed in the Set, please submit a feature request. There does not seem to be such a request yet, but it makes a lot of sense to me that a Set is the right place to (bulk) delete Objects that match certain filters.

@owent

• Custom font family, font size, page width and etc.

Please checkout this feature request and upvote if it matches your needs:

Add options to change font size and style

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. On desktop, it’s more of a preference. On Android, it’s frustrating having that small font size and not be able to change it. Describe the solution you’d like Like notion, i’d like to have the option to change to different font types like “mono” and “serif”. Also to have the option to change the font sizes. Describe alternatives you’ve considered No alternatives considered. Additional context [image]

@owent

• Markdown futures: Table, quote

There are several topics about Markdown specific features so to link a few:

Import of tables in Markdown (e.g. from Nuclino)

Problem Inability to import Markdown tables. We have a large library of information in [Nuclino](https://www.nuclino.com) that we’d like to import into Anytype. Nuclino uses Markdown and can export to Markdown but it supports tables, tables with multi-line content and multiple tables on a single page. I’m unable to import these into Anytype, even if I take them through Notion first. Solution We’d like to be able to import Markdown files with simple tables, tables with multi-line content and p…

">" should be used for blockquote instead of toggle

Describe the bug Right arrow character (>) starts a Toggle block instead of a blockquote. This is very different than what most Markdown flavours suggest (ex. [CommonMark spec](CommonMark Spec)). In context of Anytype, > should rather start a Highlighted block rather than a Toggle. To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Open any note or create a new note Enter the > character and write some text after that Anytype converts it into a Toggle Expected behavior &gt…

@owent

Dashbord to view all my resource as a tree view

Anytype does not have an explicit Object hierarchy at the moment, but you can use the sidebar to see your Objects in a tree view. A linked page is visible as a child underneath another page.

@owent

Copy from markdown

Do you mean you want to import Markdown files or copy Markdown formatted text into Anytype? I think most Markdown is already supported but there are some bug reports of specific features not working as expected.

@owent

Custom keymap

I’d love to see it, and we are not alone!

Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. While it’s great that Anytype has an extensive set of keyboard shortcuts, they are not going to be ideal or intuitive for everyone. Some may overlap with system-wide shortcuts that people have, or they may simply differ from what a user is used to and perhaps uses daily in other apps. So it would be ideal if they could be customized. Describe the solution you’d like Keyboard shortcuts should ideally be fully customizable. The user…

@owent

How can I move pages from old object type if I change the object type of a set?

Could you elaborate on what you would like to achieve? It is not completely clear to me.

@owent

Column editing(multiple line editing)

If I understand correctly, see:

Ability to select/edit *partial* text across multiple blocks/paragraphs

I want to be able to select and edit text that partially spans two or more blocks. In the example below, I’d like to be able to select the text from “HERE” to “THERE”. Using either mouse or keyboard (SHIFT+DOWN/UP). [image] If I try doing it currently, as soon as the selection spans more than one block, all the involved blocks are fully selected. [image] I’d also expect (most) edit operations to work as much as possible as one would expect from a traditional text editor (whenever possible…

Looking forward to your reply!

[owent]

I have some problems to download the latest version. The download URL in Anytype is also available for me, I can find a way to find and select a available CND link and can not verify if these problems are still there now.

[edwards]

My personal theory on the CTRL+P (the print shortcut) triggering a temporary conversion to light mode from dark mode is to not waste the user’s ink/toner by printing a dark page. Yeah, the print functionality definitely needs lots of improvement - perhaps the Print/PDF rendering can be done separately from the viewport on a separate process or server, like Obsidian and Notion?

[sambouwer]

I guess so! I can also imagine you’d want to see a preview before printing, so then a light themed print preview makes sense

[sambouwer]

Hi @owent, do you still have trouble downloading and installing the latest version?

[owent]

Yes, I still have trouble with downloading.Is there any Asia CDN server I can use to download it?The download URL is redirected to https://at9412003.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/Anytype%20Setup%200.25.0.exe for me, and it’s always download failed.

[Angelo]

@owent are you on our Telegram channel Telegram: Contact @anytype ? You can message me there (username @tripkovski ) and I can send you the latest version of Anytype directly.

[owent]

I download the latest version of anytype success now.I found some of my feedback are already supported now, but some are still there.

• (Already supported) Use system setting to decide to use light or dark theme by default

• (Still there) Ctrl-p should not change the theme to light temporary
  

• (Already fixed) Click edit title of a page, sometimes the old title is removed.

• (Already supported) Allow to remove objects on list view of a set.

What I would still wish for:

• Custom font family, font size, page width and etc.
• Markdown futures: Table, quote
• Copy/Import from markdown
• Custom keymap
• Column editing(multiple line editing, I mean just like vscode below)
  

[sambouwer]

@owent

column editizg

Whoa, I never knew that this was a thing! Now that I’ve seen this in action, I agree this would be great to have! Could you create a separate feature request for this?

Regarding ctrl-p I believe this is the expected behavior, but I can understand you’d still like this to be changed to stay in dark mode (or maybe configurable whether or not to temporarily switch the print preview to light mode).