My opinion after a few weeks

[neyes]

Hi! I have been using Anytype on Windows and Android for several weeks. Previously i try to use similar aps (Notion, Craft and others), but no one of them not i like like Anytype! Of course, there are some things that I would like to see in the future in Anytype:

1. Hierarchical system of structuring objects. The system of sets and objects is extremely interesting, but not that useful for me, sorry.
2. Notifications. Notifications are simply necessary for tasks in Mobile Platforms (and maybe in PC/Mac)
3. SVG Prewiew. It would be very cool if it was possible to view SVG files like pictures.
4. Table of contents to the left of the text in the page. Table of contents are so great thing, but in large pages it would be nice to have a Table of Contents on the left side (like in Dropbox Pages)
5. Ability to automatically turn off Anytype when the application closes. Now I need to turn off the application from here
   

For a closed alpha test, the result is fantastic, even for a public application it is very, very cool! Things I especially liked in Anytype:

1. Design. Interface, Animations, Icons, Typografy, Colors, everything is so great!
2. Android App. Lightning fast and smooth (unlike many other slow note-taking applications) and with great iOS design in Android (yes, i use Android, but of course, iOS desing is better then Material Desing and Material You Design)
3. Offline working. Sometimes i have to write something when there is no internet connection.
4. Vision of Anytype. Open Source, Privacy and Help to users is always good!

The language barrier

i’m not native speaker of Engilsh, so sorry for the grammatical and other errors .

[Angelo]

Thanks very much for your kind words and mindful review of Anytype. We’re glad your experience has been pleasant and we hope someday to fully meet your needs!

[sambouwer]

Hi @neyes thanks for sharing your experience. I’m linking some topics here to make sure you see what feature you’d like to see are already covered in existing feature requests. For the other ones it would be great if you could submit your own feature requests!

@neyes

Hierarchical system of structuring objects

I hope I get your remark right! There are many people asking for some way or form to structure their content in Anytype. Setting up an hierarchy for your Objects is one of the suggestions made by several alpha users.

Option to have rows in Sets be nested (and foldable) based on page hierarchy

I will use as an example History notes, but this would apply to any content type that requires (or could benefit from) nesting. Note this would require some sort of tree structure (where parents-children relations are explicit), which I don’t think we have. Say I have a page for “Conflict A”, and four pages linked to it for specific events within that conflict (for example, “Battle 1”, “Battle 2” and “Battle 3”). I’d like to be able to have a Set view in which the hierarchy between these entri…

Please add traditional "tree" for navigating page structure

I must say, since I started using Anytype, the biggest frustration and surprise to me was the lack of a sidebar and traditional “tree” navigation. There seems to be the concept of page parentage, i.e. sub-pages, so the structure is there. But it is handled much more like mobile home screen nav, which is extremely limited as number of pages grow, and makes it needlessly difficult to navigate, create and maintain good hierarchies, etc. This kind of navigation paradigm was really created for mobile…

A Tree-object for hierarchical navigation

As referenced in Layout as a Type with templates I would like a Tree-object. Although the graph is amazing, a hierarchy or tree might come in handy as well. An object could be linked to or used in multiple tree-objects. You would also have to state which object is the parent (the tree or some other object within the tree). You could use a tree-object as a table of contents on a page. This could be created automatically based upon the headings. You could use a tree-object in navigation. I don’t…

Desired Guidance: best practice reference hierarchies and archetype skeletons

howdy all! Truly, LOVING anytype. This is really something else! I’m not sure where the best place for this is, but I’m hoping to encourage some discussion around the use cases/data model design skeletons These references/ prototypes… in my mind… would help demonstrate the ‘this is how we think laying out your pages/sets/objects/references is going to be best as of today…’ for different archtetypical use-cases. The power I see in anytype is the INCREDIBLE flexibility. I suspect that’s also…

Maybe you can elaborate on how you prefer to organize your Objects?

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@neyes

• Notifications are simply necessary for tasks in Mobile Platforms (and maybe in PC/Mac)

I agree and we are not alone:

Larger proposal for discussion: Notification System

Anytype is in an interesting early phase where, unlike most productivity apps I use, it actually has little or no need for a “notifications” system. But if I understand future plans right, then it will definitely need such a system eventually. So I’d like to open up some discussion on UI/UX and features we’d like to see in such a system and see if we can help shape its direction as it is being planned and initially developed. Notification Sources First, I think notifications will be necessary/…

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@neyes

It would be very cool if it was possible to view SVG files like pictures.

I don’t think there is a feature request specifically for view SVG icons, but there is this FR to allow SVG’s to be used for page icons, which would in the end result in the same thing: SVG’s being supported to be previewed within an Object (either as icon or as image block/inline image):

SVG for page icons

I noticed that when uploading an SVG image to Anytype’s editor, it will only add a link to it instead of an image. [asd] Would love to see SVG preview in editor as I always use SVG for flowcharts and UI prototypes. Vector images are awesome!

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@neyes

Table of contents to the left of the text in the page

I was so sure there is a feature request to allow the TOC to be displayed in the sidebar, but… I cannot find it right now, so it might only exist in my head. There are some larger discussions about what should(n’t) be displayed in the sidebar and multitasking in general (multiple panes, multiple windows, etc.), but I’d like to invite you to submit your own feature request for this one.

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@neyes

Ability to automatically turn off Anytype when the application closes

I think this is a bug and should be resolved already:

Closing the app only hides the foreground app

Describe the bug The close button of the app only hides the foreground process while the background process are still running including the tray icon. Opening the app from the tray displays the following error. Killing the background process displays the same error at times [image] To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Open the app and use it for a while Close the app Expected behavior Clicking the close button should close the app and kill all the background process gracefully S…

Anytype minimizes when clicking on the close (X) in the top left

Describe the bug When you click on the X in the top left to close Anytype it only minimizes the program. To close Anytype you need to right click the icon on the start menu bar of windows. Then select Close. To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Open Anytype Click on the X in the top right to close Anytype minimizes Expected behavior Expect Anytype to close iso minimize. System Information: OS: Windows 10 Anytype Version: Anytype Desktop 0.23.5 Additional context This might b…

If you are indeed still experiencing this, please let us know! In the meantime, check out this feature request that is related:

Minimize to system tray

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to have my note-taking tool ready at all times. Need to write something down? I want to do it as quickly and easily as possible. Need to look something up? Same thing. But it’s not something I want to keep in the foreground, not something that should clutter my application bar. It should just be there on standby. Describe the solution you’d like When pressing close (x), instead of actually quitting, make anytype minimize …