Hiccups in Anytype: What prevented you from having a frictionless process?

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Suppose everyone wants a smooth experience using Anytype. Some things are quite minor and you can deal with it, but it would be smoother without it. So minor that you don’t feel like making it a feature request or you feel like it is a you-only problem.

If your issue is quite significant or function specific, go ahead and make it a feature request. This post won’t get voted so the chances of the individual thing being attented might be smaller.

Let me start first.

  1. When choosing object type for creating a new object, you input 1 letter, no option show up; you input 2 letters, some and only some options come up.

  2. When you select object type (search at object creation) or add relation type (at relation pane), you need to press down arrow twice to reach the first option.

These are just 1 to 2 clicks away from making it work, so the impact are not significant.

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Creating a new object: I have some lightweight object types (like “task”), and creating one takes many steps: (1) create the object with /task, (2) click into the object, (3) add relevant relations (due date, priority, project), each taking many clicks. It would be much better if there was some syntax with /task to set these parameters while creating the object, or set them without “opening” the object itself. — I also wish I could edit these lightweight objects “inline” (e.g., change the title that displays) without having to click into them.

Modifying object types: When I add a new relation, I have to add it to the object type settings, then add it to the template, then make it display on any sets/collections. This is clunky, but less of a problem because hopefully the object types stabilize after I figure out how I want to use anytype.

Having a daily notes: I love the way Capacities does daily notes. I can always make today’s new note with one click, and I can easily send stuff to a future day’s note. I can achieve the same thing in anytype but I have to manually make a new Daily Note object, give it a title of today’s date, give it a relation of today’s date. It takes a few more clicks.