Anytype is a safe haven for digital collaboration: one private place to chat, craft docs, organise projects, and build shared knowledge — all without surrendering your data.
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Privacy is the most important aspect for me and I loved your concept of local collaboration. Congrats on the launch!
Thank you, Alex! That’s exactly what we’re aiming for — beauty, speed, and full ownership. Glad the chats hit the mark too.
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Love the privacy-first angle. End-to-end encryption + local-first is the way forward for sensitive team collaboration.
Q: How do you handle sync conflicts when working offline? Also, what's your go-to-market - are you focusing on teams that care deeply about privacy (legal, healthcare)?
@imraju Thank you! We’ve built our own sync protocol to support local-first, encrypted collaboration — it handles offline edits using CRDTs, so conflicts are merged automatically in most cases. Here’s the docs if you’re curious: https://sync.any.org
As for go-to-market, we’re starting with individuals and small teams who care deeply about autonomy & privacy, then gradually expanding to larger teams and businesses.
Excited to have you on board!
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@imraju@pronkin_ hi hi, anytype dev here 😊 just a small correction, CRDTs are designed to be eventually consistent -- which means they are merged automatically in any case, i.e. you never need to merge anything manually.
Thanks a lot! That’s exactly the pain we wanted to solve. Work and conversation belong together — no more jumping between tabs just to stay in context.
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New to this product this application and setting this up as my command center Brain with support of theBrain (Graph\MindMap), Obsidian (OBJECTS\PUGINS+INTERNAL Direct edit of MD files), Zotero (FILES\Reference CITI). Working through the learning curve and finding the CHAT option a challenge at this time. Would find a FILTER option on the SIDEBAR to help organize first point of the workflow entry point. Main feature I like for what I use this application for is the OBJECTS and URI/URL support structure. The current URI for cross vault and outside application to bring direct objects up could be expanded further to make my one-point of entry work better.
Sounds like you’re building a powerful command-center setup — love seeing Anytype used alongside tools like TheBrain, Obsidian, and Zotero.
You’re right: Chats have a learning curve today. We’re working on smoothing that out, and your point about a sidebar filter is spot on. We’re already exploring better ways to organize entry points and surface the right objects faster.
Regarding URI/URL support: completely agree. Cross-space and external linking is one of the core strengths of the system, and we plan to expand it so you can use Anytype as a true single point of entry.
Really appreciate you sharing this — helps us shape the right priorities. If you have more thoughts, we’d love to hear them.
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I signed up to Product Hunt just to up vote Anytype. It is so good. I use it on my Linux PC, Android phone and even on a chromebook via the official .deb package. It works flawlessly on all of these (including the Chromebook which has got to be a pretty niche usage), syncing my notes between them all.
I can export all my data in about 3 clicks, and download immediately and as often as I like.
This is the note software I always wanted Evernote and Onenote to be and offers a genuinely alternative to Notion and Obsidian that doesn't have paywalls and restrictions.
Thank you so much — signing up just to support us means a lot.
Amazing to hear it runs smoothly across all your devices, even the Chromebook! We put a lot of care into making sure syncing and data ownership feel effortless. Glad it’s the kind of tool you always wanted — that’s exactly what we’re building for.
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Great update from the team! Been using Anytype for a while now. I hope local AI is next.
@artem_daniliants Thank you! Glad to have you with us. And yes — local AI is very much on the way. Stay tuned!
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Wow, Anytype looks amazing! Love the local-first approach and how it tackles data ownership. How does the peer-to-peer sync handle conflicting edits on the same document when offline? Super curious!
Thank you! Happy you like the local-first approach — it’s at the core of everything we build.
We use a peer-to-peer protocol we developed in-house called Any-Sync. It’s built on CRDTs, so devices can edit offline and then merge changes automatically when they reconnect. If two people edit the same block at the same time, CRDTs resolve it deterministically — no overwriting entire documents.
If you’re curious, you can read more in our documentation: sync.any.org
@pronkin_ Aweseome. Thanks for the quick and in depth explanation. I will surely check out the documentation. I am hunting next week, would love to have you guys check out my product as well! :)
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Privacy is the most important aspect for me and I loved your concept of local collaboration. Congrats on the launch!
Anytype
Thank you so much! Privacy is at the core of everything we build. Local collaboration is just the beginning — more to come!
I'm a huge fan. fast, offline, private, great UX. just 🤌
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Thomas, your support means a lot. Huge thanks!
Anytype is so gorgeous and fast. I could use it just because of that. Decentralized chats take it to the next level.
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Thank you, Alex! That’s exactly what we’re aiming for — beauty, speed, and full ownership. Glad the chats hit the mark too.
Love the privacy-first angle. End-to-end encryption + local-first is the way forward for sensitive team collaboration.
Q: How do you handle sync conflicts when working offline? Also, what's your go-to-market - are you focusing on teams that care deeply about privacy (legal, healthcare)?
Excited about this! 🚀
Anytype
@imraju Thank you! We’ve built our own sync protocol to support local-first, encrypted collaboration — it handles offline edits using CRDTs, so conflicts are merged automatically in most cases. Here’s the docs if you’re curious: https://sync.any.org
As for go-to-market, we’re starting with individuals and small teams who care deeply about autonomy & privacy, then gradually expanding to larger teams and businesses.
Excited to have you on board!
@imraju @pronkin_ hi hi, anytype dev here 😊 just a small correction, CRDTs are designed to be eventually consistent -- which means they are merged automatically in any case, i.e. you never need to merge anything manually.
AI Lawyer
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Merging chat directly into the docs is actually such a smart move. Context switching between Slack and Notion kills my flow daily. Nice work on this.
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Thanks a lot! That’s exactly the pain we wanted to solve. Work and conversation belong together — no more jumping between tabs just to stay in context.
New to this product this application and setting this up as my command center Brain with support of theBrain (Graph\MindMap), Obsidian (OBJECTS\PUGINS+INTERNAL Direct edit of MD files), Zotero (FILES\Reference CITI). Working through the learning curve and finding the CHAT option a challenge at this time. Would find a FILTER option on the SIDEBAR to help organize first point of the workflow entry point. Main feature I like for what I use this application for is the OBJECTS and URI/URL support structure. The current URI for cross vault and outside application to bring direct objects up could be expanded further to make my one-point of entry work better.
Thanks again for the product.
Kerry Dalton
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Thank you, Kerry!
Sounds like you’re building a powerful command-center setup — love seeing Anytype used alongside tools like TheBrain, Obsidian, and Zotero.
You’re right: Chats have a learning curve today. We’re working on smoothing that out, and your point about a sidebar filter is spot on. We’re already exploring better ways to organize entry points and surface the right objects faster.
Regarding URI/URL support: completely agree. Cross-space and external linking is one of the core strengths of the system, and we plan to expand it so you can use Anytype as a true single point of entry.
Really appreciate you sharing this — helps us shape the right priorities. If you have more thoughts, we’d love to hear them.
I signed up to Product Hunt just to up vote Anytype. It is so good. I use it on my Linux PC, Android phone and even on a chromebook via the official .deb package. It works flawlessly on all of these (including the Chromebook which has got to be a pretty niche usage), syncing my notes between them all.
I can export all my data in about 3 clicks, and download immediately and as often as I like.
This is the note software I always wanted Evernote and Onenote to be and offers a genuinely alternative to Notion and Obsidian that doesn't have paywalls and restrictions.
Anytype
Thank you so much — signing up just to support us means a lot.
Amazing to hear it runs smoothly across all your devices, even the Chromebook! We put a lot of care into making sure syncing and data ownership feel effortless. Glad it’s the kind of tool you always wanted — that’s exactly what we’re building for.
Great update from the team! Been using Anytype for a while now. I hope local AI is next.
Anytype
@artem_daniliants Thank you! Glad to have you with us. And yes — local AI is very much on the way. Stay tuned!
Wow, Anytype looks amazing! Love the local-first approach and how it tackles data ownership. How does the peer-to-peer sync handle conflicting edits on the same document when offline? Super curious!
Anytype
Thank you! Happy you like the local-first approach — it’s at the core of everything we build.
We use a peer-to-peer protocol we developed in-house called Any-Sync. It’s built on CRDTs, so devices can edit offline and then merge changes automatically when they reconnect. If two people edit the same block at the same time, CRDTs resolve it deterministically — no overwriting entire documents.
If you’re curious, you can read more in our documentation: sync.any.org
Or more philiosophical view: https://positivesum.any.org/p/local-first-versus-the-cloud
Always happy to dive deeper!
@pronkin_ Aweseome. Thanks for the quick and in depth explanation. I will surely check out the documentation. I am hunting next week, would love to have you guys check out my product as well! :)
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@jaydev13 Yep. Happy to check it out!