I’m a little intrigued, but it also seems way overhyped. The website is much too corporate-feeling and buzz-word-y for my taste. However, I’ll also admit I’m interested in any tool that touts end-to-end encryption and peer-to-peer tech. What do you all think about it?
It looks interesting to me, but as far as I can tell they haven’t announced their monetization model yet. I don’t know if they’ll suddenly decide something like p2p sync is no longer free.
I plan on at least testing it out though.
Well, all the sortware is free and the code is open source for non-commercial use. I am not sure if it technically counts are free software but you can always have a copy of the older code and use that.
Its in their FAQ
But how do/will you make money?
We are not prepared to begin charging for usage of Anytype while the app is still in beta, and we rely on our community not to take advantage of the free storage that’s currently offered.
When we do begin to charge, our principles are as follows:
Users should be charged only for the resources they consume. That means that in the short term, we will charge for paid backups of spaces above a certain storage limit. This limit has not been determined, as we still need to understand the true load and cost of hosting spaces on our infrastructure.
In the medium term, our goal is to evolve from an app into a digital cooperative in which you can pay to become a member. Membership comes with benefits such as the ability to publish objects and spaces under a name of your choosing, discoverability in the Any ecosystem, and the right to participate in the earnings of the cooperative based on your contributions.
After 1 gb, you need to purchase additional storage. Basically it’s freemium.
But it’s 1 GB of backups. There seems to be no limit to how much you store, it’s offline after all and syncs peer to peer it doesnt cost them money if you store more stuff. However, I’d be interested to see how easy it is to store you backups on your own somewhere.
I started out as “oh that’s a neat idea, I should play around with it” and now, just a month or so later, I depend on it almost daily.
Just one example: My family was on vacation and my wife asked if I remembered how long our next planned activity would take. Of course I don’t remember, but because I was using Anytype as a scratch pad for picking out our vacation activities (this was weeks prior), I was able to pull up the answer on my phone in less than 10 seconds - even though I had no internet or cell service at the time.
Having not come from Notion, Obsidian, or any other related software, there was a bit of a learning curve for me. But now I can’t help but keep dumping information into it.
I tried it a few weeks ago. As an app in beta, it seems promising. But I am waiting to be able to customise local storage path since I would sync it using my own cloud storage.
IDK, but I don’t think I care?
And I agree, it feels WAYYYY too corporate for me to trust this…
It’s pretty complicated to use or maybe I’m just too dumb. Also it looks like I can’t put images in table cells which makes it irrelevant to me anyway.
It’s a shame that after waiting for years for collaboration that we need to wait another year.
Will it even work?
I’m also wondering about their monetization plan.
I tried to use and will give it another try I’m currently using myMind and plan shift some it’s content to anytype
I think it may be decent, but the homepage is not convincing me.
I had a tiny little look, and don’t like that I had to log in (although selfhosting seems to be possible since very recently), and then had a weirdly full notebook. It also seems like they don’t save their data in nice little markdown files, but use some custom database-stuff.
They probably allow exporting into markdown, but I’d prefer it to be stored in a legible format.Overall, I had a look, and I’ll stay with logseq + syncthing
I just installed it but am very overwhelmed by how this works. Trying to figure out how to make a spaces where I can make notes with sub-pages for half an hour now but I think I’m too dumb.
Its not aimed at sharing or peer to peer so I might be missing the mark - but have you looked at https://crypt.ee ?
It’s pretty much Notion but private and I guess its own features I never used Notion but it also feels like an all in one App Unlike Notion it doesn’t need your data
