Anyone who is using/has used 'Notion' ?
Any views on Anytype project ?
https://anytype.io
1 year ago 路 馃憤 syntheist
Like others, the landing page made me think "what exactly is it this does?" I signed up for the Alpha though, because I felt the same way about Roam, and getting good with it has been a game changer for my productivity. 路 1 year ago
@lysco, anytype is planned to be opensource, currently it's not. The docs are quite helpful to find what it actually is.
Their plan for earning is similar to Joplin's take on earning. (I attended their conference.)
I am struggling to use and understand it though I have the alpha access. Let's see if I can figure it out in some days.
https://doc.anytype.io/d/ 路 1 year ago
Well, if Anytype is open source, at least there ought to be clear documentation for the API somewhere so people like me can make alternative clients that *aren't* part of the "planned obsolescence" pipeline. 路 1 year ago
Do you know of any alternatives to Notion that have a NATIVE app on MacOS? My 2013 Macbook Air hates Electron apps :( 路 1 year ago
@scientiac I might switch if it can be self-hosted and supports Arch (and OpenBSD). I host most of the services that I use. Espically those hold my data, 路 1 year ago
@haze @syntheist I signed up for alpha and got the access. It's pretty good though I haven't used it much. I used to use notion then I switched to evernote and now Joplin is doing very good for me. But this feels more like notion and the added bonus of it going to be open source is what pulled me towards it. Would you consider switching to it if it came out being similar to notion? 路 1 year ago
After reading the page. I also have no idea what it's doing. Ok, it's open source. It claims to be better. But exctlly what it is? I had to go to their Markdown docs to learn it.
The place I work at use Notion as a normie friendly version of Markdown. So we can easily write documents and share with people. The engineering team just stikcs with Markdown, git and grep. We only use Notion when communicating with customers and other teams.
I'm not sure how useful these kinds of document graphs could be. Obsidian works because it's focused on research and achidemic. Where renderncing ideas and work is very critical. 路 1 year ago
Pretty detail free page, I basically have no idea what it is and what it's supposed to do. I felt excited looking at the page, but the Q&A section doesn't really have any A's. Wait and see, I guess? 路 1 year ago