Missing mobile features.
While I can workaround some features (like instead of having a kanban or calender new, I can create another view for mobile purposes) but some features are very important for my workflow on desktop (like inline sets) that don’t seem to work on mobile at all.
Feature parity for all content elements more or less would be great to make the mobile app a reasonable companion.
Bugs
I know AnyType is not in a stable release yet but for serious production it has to be reliable when it comes to accessing and syncing notes.
At the moment I stick to writing notes in plain text (todo.txt, Wiki-Text; ledger). That way I’m not dependent on any other software than an text editor. Of course you can also use helpers like Sleek, Zim-Wiki and Markor (Android) but you are not dependent on them.
I’m still hanging in with Anytype - I’m a new user, but I endorse the comments on this thread, which I just found.
I very much like the concept of Anytype, having used everything: Zettlr, Obsidian, Coda, Walling, Clickups, Zim Wiki. But I find it absolutely confusing to use. This isn’t just the terminology, which takes a while to understand, nor is it the copious help that’s available.
Instead, it’s quandaries like learning how to use the Sidebar which is as counter-intuitive as any feature I’ve encountered. For instance, if I want to create an Inbox or Academic Papers widget (which I do), then I’m constantly wrong-footed by how the widgets work. It’s a little bit as if you have to understand the whole anytype system first before you can confidently add individual items.
So, I have failed to add either of these widgets despite watching several videos and perusing the Help sections. I know someone on the community could show me simple steps - and I’d appreciate that. But I’m also making a comment about how much work newbies like myself have to put in just to get going. Every other app I’ve used has an incremental learning curve, but this just doesn’t seem to work this way, despite all the Help saying it’s pretty easy.
John
Due to v.0.36 constantly crashing and needing to reinstall, I tried Obsidian. Great concept and idea. I apologize in advance for comparing Anytype to another app (I’m sure it’s been done many times), but I couldn’t help but notice some good points. I miss the downsides that would make me prefer to use Anytype.
So in this regard:
I miss the stability of Anytype. I know it’s in development and a Beta version.
I hope that in future releases in the stable channel, the software won’t have a bunch of bugs that make it unusable.
Looking forward to the developer API. Looking at what’s made for Obsidian, I’m very excited for Anytype. With a plugin in Obsidian, I recreated my book list that took me a long time to create and populate in just 30 min. I search for the book by title and everything is auto-populated. There are many other similar plugins that save time and make using the program much more productive and with a 21st century flavor, rather than searching and filling in information “by hand”.
Obsidian’s interface is magic. As someone who likes to customize everything and make it as comfortable as possible, I can’t help but notice the freedom of customization.
Freedom of customization can easily lead to spending more time designing the “perfect” setup instead of actually using the platform to be productive. This is exactly what happened to me in Notion and Obsidian. This has not been as much of an issue for me in Anytype and that is why I am continuing to use it for the time being.
Agreed. I like how opinionated Anytype can feel. Just as many times I think to myself “I wish I could do it this way”, but it’s for the better that I don’t have my way.
And I’m someone who really, really enjoys customization. Maybe that’s why I didn’t last too long with Notion. I spent too much time in Obsidian designing custom themes, tweaking plugins, and building a setup that confused wants with needs.
The foundation Anytype has now is flexible enough that I can make do without letting loose living in my head.
My current dealbreaker would be if Anytype introduces native AI. I’m an artist and a writer, and have a good deal of sensitive data in my profile, so honestly I’d probably head back to Obsidian or Notepad at that point.
basically this. i can’t fully migrate from notion because this features are essential to me
Anytype could not introduce AI in a way that would compromise your data since it is built privacy first.
What they CAN do is introduce a local AI model, which would be just as secure as Anytype is now. A local model runs locally on your machine, and does nothing more to compromise your data than any other local query of your data. I hope at some point they do this, obviously completely optional.
I’m pretty stuck on the lack of bidirectional relationships. I keep wanting to move my Tasks database over, and getting frustrated I can’t see both my Tasks from my Projects and my Projects from Tasks - I have to CHOOSE. 
https://community.anytype.io/t/bidirectional-relations/8679/6
I feel like this is a pretty critical feature missing for a program like this.
My deal breaker is that when I try to find something, only the titles are shown instead of a preview of the match in the note details. So I’m unable to find quickly what I am looking for when I search for a term that appears in different pages.
Yes. A native A.I search option should be implemented.
I wonder if the word A.I currently only brings up the plight many artists are facing with having their work used without proper procedure for image generation.
But that is just generative A. I. Or mlm.
A local LLM that queries our own notes and is trained on our own notes, does not fall into that catagory.
I hope this issue clears up soon. 
After losing my data twice, I don’t think I will be trying this soon. Maybe once it’s a bit more stable.
First time was when switching to local only from anytype servers. I removed all files from anytype servers because local only means everything would be available locally. Apparently not, all my files were kept on anytype server despite I never offloaded anything.
2nd time is when I exported and tried importing again from the zip and no files were imported correctly. I have files in a folder, but have no intention to update my 200+ pages manually again.
Love how un-restricting this app is, but yeah, I have no motivation left to try again. Thank you!
I think this is due to a bug, that others and I reported. Was the new account you tried to import to a “local account”? If so, that might be it
Yes, it was local account. Notes import and export is pretty important functionality. Also made me think if this is even worth investing time into because with just regular markdown notes I can maintain one folder, backup it and no matter which software I am using for notes, I will always have my notes. Not so sure about Anytype keeping my notes safe.
At least for JSON import :
it happens also when its any block protobuf import.
Its a bug on “local account” mode, which was developed in the last release. I hope it is fixed meanwhile.
But if you create a new “synced account” and import, everything should be fine. Your notes “should” be safe as long as you remember your account “password phrase”.
Thank you! Good thing I still kept that zip around. Okay, so now I should wait for the fix and then maybe switch to local mode?
Great 
I was hoping you still had the zip around
That is what I am doing. Using synced accounts, which, when the fix comes, I will move to “Local Only” (creating new account and deleting the synced account, I think it has a 30 days grace period for actual deletion).
I am planning on only having the main account as synced. (eventually when Anytype gets to 1.0 and becomes more stable (as in less changes, not about bugs), will try to move to self host).