This is so your ‘files’ can go beyond a “Page” and be customized according to your needs or organization. For example, you can name it, Docs, Lesson, Idea, Company, etc.
Then there are the locked types like Set, Image, Human, etc. It’s for identification.
There are actually subtle differences if you play with the settings, although yes, it’s still just a page with a custom name. Some examples of varying use cases:
- a note without a title for quick captures
- a page in basic layout for documents
- a page (or Human type) for contacts
It’s intended to be named/customized, that’s the idea of “any type”.
I’m not sure I understand what you’d like to do here, but I will say that Anytype is more Notion than Evernote in the sense that if you want a list, you’ll have to set it up yourself. Think of it as starting from scratch then setting up your own app or workflow. You get to decide how you finish the product’s UI/layout based on your use case.
Is this what you’re trying to do?
I call it my folder system/navigation in Anytype, but I can see it as a workaround for recreating the nested tags or Notebooks in Evernote. Basically, instead of actually adding a tag relation, you’ll be connecting the objects by categorizing everything inside one page.
For this, I created a “Folder” type, aka a page with only links in it. Then inside those linked pages are more object links. If the Folder object (equivalent of a parent tag) is assigned as a widget with a tree appearance, it will create that look similar to nested tags.
I wouldn’t suggest using Collections as a substitute for tags because it wouldn’t expand in tree view unless it’s the source object of the widget itself. (More limiting imo.)
Hope this helps.