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Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by orthecreedence »

CrypticShift wrote: post #7
orthecreedence wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by a merge feature?

I mean that when I import a new CSV, I sometimes want to merge its rows with an existing Anytype database objects if key columns are identical. For larger personal databases, I find that I often need to clean them up or enrich them with web APIs. Therefore, I will export the data, manipulate it elsewhere, and then reimport it. This requires the data to be "merged" with the existing records in order to preserve the ex…

Thanks for explaining, that's a totally valid use-case.

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by limandoc »

I am working on a very similar app but focusing specifically on the knowledge diagramming aspect of it - basically like a drawio/miro/mural but offline first and with extensive support for markdown or LaTeX. My target groups are PhDs and researchers although any “system builder” will find it helpful to build diagrams with documentation and file support. I am at a very early stage now - building the UI part; in the future, I plan to make it truly p2p with elements of Obsidian Canvas.

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lOIfGaXKbymw7fQXjwBh...

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by echelon »

sharipova wrote: post #18
jelsisi wrote: post #14

This looks like a beautiful product, but why are there so many note taking apps? It seems like way too much energy is being put into this space.

While note-taking is cool and is one of the main use cases that anytype is used for today, we don’t place ourselves into the note-taking category. What we are building is a local first superapp (don’t like this word, but can’t find a better analog) - anytype aims to give powers of a flexible interface (a graph data-base with modular UI) and collaboration and communication capabilities based on local-first ideals. The…

> Also, we expect our community to contribute new data types, new plugins and new views.

This could be powerful if executed correctly.

I'm hoping that the runtime and schema/language will be open and interoperable and not a part of your proprietary portion. I understand your need to make money and grow, however.

I wish y'all the best of luck!

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by avtar »

rubymamis wrote: post #28
hruzgar wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do you also have vim support? This is crucial for me

I'm sorry, I've never used vim. What does vim support inside a block editor means?

I’m guessing, at the very least, vim cursor movement as described here:

https://vim.rtorr.com/

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by rubymamis »

avtar wrote: post #34
rubymamis wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, I've never used vim. What does vim support inside a block editor means?

I’m guessing, at the very least, vim cursor movement as described here: https://vim.rtorr.com/

If that's what OP meant, then no. Plume will support the basic keyboard shortcuts expected from a text editor, and then some more. My previous note-taking app[1] is already very keyboard oriented, and I intend to do the same with Plume.

EDIT: Just noticed that most of the "Cursor movements" already have equivalent standard keyboard shortcuts in regular text editors.

[1] https://www.get-notes.com/

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by dboreham »

2color wrote: post #16

As someone who's been active in the IPFS community, it's really exciting to see how Anytype uses content addressing to manage and sync data under the hood ( https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/discussions/15 ). I think the fact that local-first P2P apps cannot be built directly on the web is a shame, some of the building blocks, like WebRTC are there, but browsers still lack some APIs to allow for more bottom-up innovat…

You could make a chromium fork with the server-required measures disabled but so far nobody has succeeded in finding a business model to fund that long term.

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by dboreham »

diggan wrote: post #29
2color wrote: post #16

As someone who's been active in the IPFS community, it's really exciting to see how Anytype uses content addressing to manage and sync data under the hood ( https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/discussions/15 ). I think the fact that local-first P2P apps cannot be built directly on the web is a shame, some of the building blocks, like WebRTC are there, but browsers still lack some APIs to allow for more bottom-up innovat…

TLDR for others: Anytype is using IPLD ( https://ipld.io/ ), which is a project that came out of IPFS, but Anytype doesn't use IPFS itself (nor libp2p, or multiformats). Seemingly they felt it was necessary to write their own network layer and more as stable identifiers and logic for merging documents was too complicated to put on top of IPFS: > We also considered using IPFS, but its approach to content identifiers d…

IPLD and IPFS aren't the same thing. In fact the deployed IPFS doesn't use IPLD. Think of IPLD as akin to protocol buffers or GraphQL Schema or JSON schema or JSON-LD. It deals with encoding and representing pointers/links, not networking.

Re: Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

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Post by monkeydust »

Tried it.

It's polished so well done and the p2p / e2e aspects are novel but it's too heavy and complex for what I need a bit like Obsidian.

I personally find a lot of these note taking apps relish in the act of note taking itself and lose the purpose of the note itself, which for me, is to drive forward intent.

With that in mind I have started to play with Heynote from recent HN post a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38733968).

Its pitched as a scratchpad for devs, for me it's like notepad on steroids and more suited to my needs where notes are transitory things I store to help me get from A to B to C...

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