cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1386745
Anytype has finally followed through on their promise and open sourced their repositories. Self hosting is now possible though there is no docker container available.
This is a major step forward for all PKMS and I wholeheartedly congratulate them.
btw Anytype is free, even their included sync service, which is the best of any offline-first style PKMS I have experienced. Anytype is top 3 PKMS for me, followed by Logseq and SiYuan. They’re in good company and now it’s only going to improve!
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How does this compare to obsidian or logseq? It looks interesting, but I’m also assuming it doesn’t store data as plaintext files
That’s right - I’m not sure the format, and their markdown export is honestly pretty garbage. Though Logseq I believe is moving to a db type infrastructure as well though you will always have the choice to store in plaintext.
I prefer Anytype to Obsdiain, and I prefer Logseq to both, though primarily because logseq has transclusion support and anytype doesn’t appear to be putting that in their priorities. If transclusion isn’t important to you, Anytype is really great. It has a OOP kinda philosophy where everything is a type or a relation between types. And each type can have several templates - let’s say I create a type called journal. I can make several templates - a daily journal, a meditation journal, a therapy journal, etc. Then I can use sets and inline sets to show all journal entries of a particular type.
Speaking of Journals, I prefer how logseq handles it, with daily notes and a daily note template. I still have main repositories of notes, which I embed in my daily note template, and then I have my daily musings for just quick notes and stuff. I also have a page that queries all of the daily musings from all of my daily journals - essentially extracting the more fleeting stuff from my daily notes.
I recommend also looking at SiYuan.
Though in terms of price, Anytype is currently king as it’s completely free
Transclusion is somewhat important to me so thanks for pointing out that Anytype doesn’t support it. It does still look interesting though, so I’ll at least try it out.
I haven’t tried logseq much yet either, but it did seem more org-like than anything else which was pretty appealing to me. I was mostly just waiting to see how it matures and for it to get a good mobile app. Obsidian impressed me by supporting basically the same plugins on mobile and desktop (meaning I can use a 3rd party sync plugin on both), but there are parts I don’t like about it.
Thanks for this recommendation, it’s the first I’ve seen SiYuan but it looks pretty good too. I added it to my ever-growing list to try!
My top 3 PKMS of the mountain of PKMS I’ve tried are 1. Logseq, 2. SiYuan, 3. Anytype. I do like Obsidian’s ability to use plugins on mobile, but the mobile experience isn’t as good any of these 3. I will say that Anytype’s mobile experience is the best. Logseq is very buggy to the point where it’s almost unusable, and they’re slow to release fixes on that front. I think the best thing they have is allowing to swipe to adjust indentation like Apple notes. That alone makes me like it more than the rest tbh. I’ve tried Obsidian a couple times but their transclusion is really half baked. Logseq does have lots of improvements in the pipeline though, which is why I’m sticking with it over SiYuan. And if Anytype were to ever include transclusion, I’d probably switch back to it.