Opinion after some months

[sambouwer]

Hi @Rafael, welcome back and thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts after working with Anytype for a bit longer.

@Rafael

I miss being able to open a folder view and organizing my notes as I want to

And you are not alone!

Add Folders, nesting, more traditional structured organizational options (Organizational Structure for Writers)

Hi, I’m brand new to Anytype! I’m mostly interested in using this program for my writing. I’ve been using Scrivener and similar programs for the past ten years and I like to dabble in all sorts of genres. Because I tend to work on multiple stories at a time, I’ve found that the most important thing for my organization is to have nested folders. For example, on my home page in Scrivener the first thing I see are folders containing the genres I’m currently writing in, so one labeled “Fantasy” one…

Please add traditional "tree" for navigating page structure

@Pandry Interesting. I don’t know the code base either, but my intuition doesn’t necessarily agree with yours. If they don’t have the concept/code for “pinning” a page at all, i.e. a sidebar, then they at least have to create that. The data model for page linking already exists. Visualizing that may or may not be fairly trivial. In your concept would the tree have to be created and maintained manually by the user? If not, aren’t you describing basically the same thing, just using some ex…

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@Rafael

Some automation

Automations can definitely improve our efficiency in Anytype. For me it sometimes feels a bit clunky or “heavy” to create new content in Anytype. Adding a new task in a task tracker should be easy once the tracker is set up, but basic interactions like selecting the right Object in a Relation or filling text Relations is cumbersome when you have many.

I think there are many “small” feature requests for automations, but it might be nice to have an overarching topic to discuss how automations should have a place in Anytype. Do you want to share the things you like about Obsidian’s macros?

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@Rafael

Also, when choosing dates, why can I choose “today” and “tomorrow” but not next week, month or “in 5 days”?

These kinds of improvements are being implemented slowly. For example, filtering on date Relations now works a lot better and is very flexible:

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@Rafael

Inlines and views

I agree with all your remarks. Unfortunately, we still have to wait for inline sets and views to be implemented and released.

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@Rafael

Preset/Default Objects and relations

There are just too many of those. I

I couldn’t find back the topics, but I believe there are quite some users that agree that there are too many (sometimes duplicate or nonsensical) Object Types built into Anytype. See Larger Discussion on Built in Object Types - General Discussion & Q+A - Anytype Community (posted in response to this topic )