My dealbreaker with Anytype is the missing self-hosting function and the lack of custom storage location. I cover this in detail in my biannual review.
My dealbreaker with AnyType (which may soon belong to the past)
Please don’t get me wrong. I have taken notes in two different classes and tried some templates which have worked very well, however I do not have a large portion of my data on AnyType yet. The reason is simple. There is no easy way to Self-Hosting & no Custom Storage Location yet.
Since this is the most important message I want to convey with this post, I need to explain this in more detail. These two points are the most important ones I would like to see in Anytype.
Ability to easy set up your own (backup) node to become completely independent from the Anytype backup node.
Having the choice to choose the data directory of AnyType.
Because since the beginning with AnyType I just wanted an app that looks like similar to Notion but works completely offline, nothing more …