It depends a lot on what kind of PKMS Anytype wants to be. I’m sure to many it’s already there. To me it’s not, unfortunately.
Right now Anytype is in an awkward state - on one hand, it offers powerful databases (a feature that is missing in most pkms and is being increasingly requested by users), on the other, it lacks the basic capabilities of an outliner, for frictionless and granular capturing/editing (which many pkms already do very well, such as Logseq and RemNote).
To me both these aspects are essential, and need to be fundamentally integrated - more and more apps are starting to do this, like RemNote, Tana and SiYuan, where individual blocks can have properties and tags, allowing them to be queried and then presented in a variety of views, including list, table, calendar, timeline, gallery etc.
By the way, many refer to this frictionless/granular editing experience as “outlining”. It’s a term I find fitting, but problematic, as a lot of people might think this refers to the outline of a document (sort of the ToC).
I can’t adopt Anytype right now because even if the team decides to go this direction, it seems it would require major refactoring. Unless Anytype can deal with the increased load of having every single block be what is now called an Object (and still keep everything else - Relations, links etc), and have them live within a frictionless outliner editor.
Even the title of this post reflects how Anytype perhaps doesn’t seem to “get” pkms. It implies a PKMS is a task tracker with project management. Task tracking is just one feature a PKMs can have - it’s important, but secondary. Project management is also secondary. PKMS stands for Personal Knowledge Management Systems. Sure, a good PKMs should also be usable as project manager, but that’s not the main thing.
To me, the main thing a PKMs needs is to be accessible, frictionless and flexible. Unfortunately, as powerful as it is, I don’t see Anytype as any of these things. Every time I Iaunch Anytype to try to start using it for my actual notes, I face some very basic roadblock. For example, I tried to tick a task as complete in the dashboard on mobile and couldn’t. Or I tried to do a simple filter in a set and it didn’t work. I have little incentive to try harder due to the fact that I feel I’d be forcing Anytype to be what it doesn’t want to be. The editor feels sluggish and bloated too, since I mostly write in outlines, not long form “pages”.
Meanwhile, editing in RemNote (my current PKMs) is a breeze. I don’t mind the app is a bit “ugly”. I do mind it’s too expensive for the one-time payment option, which is why I’m looking for alternatives. Logseq is a strong contender, although the editor isn’t wysiwyg.
Anyway, I apologize for the rambling post. Part of me already moved Anytype to the “not for me” pile, which is why I don’t usually dedicate much more time/effort here as much as I used to. The other part of me still has some hope.sometimes. Posts like this, where the team mentions possible PKMs plans, help fuel a bit that hope.