I’m not sure I get how to best relate Projects to Tasks and vice-versa in AnyType.
- For every Project, one would like to see all Tasks related to this Project.
- For every Task, conversely, one would like to see which Project(s) the Task is contributing.
How would one realize that?
- E.g. f I have a Collection of Tasks for a Project, how would each of these Tasks know which specific Project they belong to?
- Or, if I went to create a Set of Tasks as part of a Project template, how would the Set filter only the Tasks belonging to this particular Project?
I’ve played with the “Tasks” and “Linked Projects” relations that come with AnyType. But it seems that they need to be manually populated.
How would the respective backlinks be set automatically, once a Task gets created for a Project, or a Project gets related to a Task?
In Notion this is super intuitive — here’s a random live Notion database example that’s pretty close to what I mean. See how it lists all Tasks for every Project; and for every Task, when you click it, it automatically has the backlink to the Project it belongs to.
This is what I’m sure Anytype is capable of — I just don’t know how.
(And a feature I love in Notion is how the number of completed Tasks is tallied up back to the Project level, as % of completed tasks… but I guess that’s a feature request.)
Update: I realize that what I wrote here is exactly what the Automatic Bi-directional linking + Rollups FR is suggesting. I can see how forward-linking and backlinks offer sort of a workaround. But I’m really in love with how Notion implemented this.