I wonder if Anytype plans to adopt the plain file method that Obsidian or VSCode (I use Dendron) works with. Being so close to a Beta release I still can’t truly use it for production and it has so many nice features I’d enjoy using, but for the time being I still rely on the above mentioned software preferring to workaround structuring the content in my files more manually (URLs/bookmarks) compared to stuff Anytype can do in a more aesthetically appealing way, knowing it’s all stored in a folder with .md files. And I use git to sync the files and that’s it. So in short, is this something that could work around/along the database format Anytype has now?
I searched about this on the forum and coulnd’t find a similar post, but possibly haven’t searched with the right words.
I feel it half answers the question. I’m thinking if Anytype can export a .zip of markdown files then it would be nice to be able to have it read markdown files without having to import. I struggle now to remember what software I tested once that had input from local files and had some features that were specific to that software, when you went to read the markdown, there were syntaxes that were readable only by that software but you could still read the content.
My end-thought about this is simply the worry to be locked in somehow (I know Anytype is a non-lock-in software), but in the sense that for some reason I can’t log in or who knows what could happen and I can’t access the content anymore. That’s the ultimate goal, really, for me, at least.
If that is something you are worried about, you can just export your spaces regularly into markdown just to make sure, although there is only a very low chance that you get locked out if you take precautions.
Also, you might wanna vote for this feature. This would make it so that you wouldn’t need to export it manually anymore.