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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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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Privacy is the most important aspect for me and I loved your concept of local collaboration. Congrats on the launch!
Thank you! really glad the transition from Obsidian has been smooth!
The AI companion is coming.
You can already open multiple windows with CMD + Shift + N. And tabs are coming soon as well.
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Any plans for more advanced queries? I've been waffling between Anytype and Logseq lately. I prefer the overall "feel" of Anytype, but I really miss the option to opt in to using datalog to write arbitrarily complex queries. The powerful queries allow me to use my data in new ways without having to plan for every question ahead of time (i.e. by manually managing tags & properties.) For example, if I had a Recipe type and a Meal Log type, maybe I'd want to query how many vegetarian meals I've made in the last month, or what recipes I haven't made recently. I don't want to maintain a Last Cooked property on every Recipe when the Meal Log already represents the information I need. I desperately want to query my graph like a true graph!
@ashatos Internally we’ve been experimenting with Lucene-style queries so far, since they’re a bit more familiar for non-tech folks and easier for us to ship. But Datalog / GraphQL-style querying is definitely something we’re open to exploring as well, especially together with local AI that could help turn natural language (“what vegetarian meals did I cook last month?”, “what haven’t I made in a while?”) into actual queries. But, as you mentioned, we should also consider a way to log type entries over time.
So thanks for sharing this use case! We’ll keep this direction in mind as we keep iterating on search & querying.
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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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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.
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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.
Thanks again for the product.
Kerry Dalton
Anytype
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.
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!
Anytype is so gorgeous and fast. I could use it just because of that. Decentralized chats take it to the next level.
Anytype
Thank you, Alex! That’s exactly what we’re aiming for — beauty, speed, and full ownership. Glad the chats hit the mark too.
@pronkin_ Super happy with my transition from Obsidian. I am counting on you for 2 features:
1. AI companion that you shared here.
2. Opening multiple pages in the same window or multiple windows. Not sure if there is a way to do this.
Anytype
Thank you! really glad the transition from Obsidian has been smooth!
The AI companion is coming.
You can already open multiple windows with CMD + Shift + N. And tabs are coming soon as well.
Any plans for more advanced queries? I've been waffling between Anytype and Logseq lately. I prefer the overall "feel" of Anytype, but I really miss the option to opt in to using datalog to write arbitrarily complex queries. The powerful queries allow me to use my data in new ways without having to plan for every question ahead of time (i.e. by manually managing tags & properties.) For example, if I had a Recipe type and a Meal Log type, maybe I'd want to query how many vegetarian meals I've made in the last month, or what recipes I haven't made recently. I don't want to maintain a Last Cooked property on every Recipe when the Meal Log already represents the information I need. I desperately want to query my graph like a true graph!
Anytype
@ashatos Internally we’ve been experimenting with Lucene-style queries so far, since they’re a bit more familiar for non-tech folks and easier for us to ship. But Datalog / GraphQL-style querying is definitely something we’re open to exploring as well, especially together with local AI that could help turn natural language (“what vegetarian meals did I cook last month?”, “what haven’t I made in a while?”) into actual queries. But, as you mentioned, we should also consider a way to log type entries over time.
So thanks for sharing this use case! We’ll keep this direction in mind as we keep iterating on search & querying.
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
Anytype
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.
Anytype
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.
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!