
Imagine having the best ideas but never being able to share them. In contrast, imagine having all your thought accessible by strangers. In my opinion both scenarios are scary. But thus is also the state of PKM systems. Either they are local and difficult to sync across devices, like obsidian, or the sync feature comes at the cost of all your data being stored at a faraway server, like Notion etc and accessible to the web, we cannot decide what to share or what not to share. Now, I have used both Obsidian and Notion, and I like many things about them. Obsidian has a sync option, a bit pricey for a casual user like me. Notion is web based, syncs across your devices, but nothing is truly private. Now enter Anytype, locally stored, with android and desktop apps that are fully functional offline, open source (starting with public beta version, if I am not mistaken) but syncs across devices for the same account (user) and collaboration will soon be possible between different accounts. It is also end-to-end encrypted. If that was not enough, the PKM method used by Anytype is also based on how the mind perceives the environment visually as objects. There is some learning curve with it's type, relation, set, collection features. But, for me, it became very intuitive after the first 2 days of me using it. After all that, there is even a graph.
I have very high hopes for Anytype. The team is wonderful and, through out the alpha phase of the app, I have seem them accomplish things that I thought would not be possible. And did I mention the app is just entering public beta phase?
So happy to be part of the launch. Wishing everyone a bright future. Thanks.
What's great
cross-platform (20)open source (23)offline mode (29)E2E encryption (20)local-first (25)knowledge graph (14)
What needs improvement
learning curve (15)alpha/beta releases (14)
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