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  • I’ve been using it for a week, and I’ve also been using Obsidian for a couple of months.

    It’s quite different from Obsidian.

    Obsidian:

    • is great in writing notes / markdown, very text heavy
    • there are dataview that could tie relations between notes, but it’s not user friendly to set it up. Also table creation is still not user friendly.
    • has great community plugin support
    • very keyboard friendly

    Anytype:

    • is great in creating relations between objects, you define objects and relations all the time, e.g. Movie object has a Director relation that ties to a Director object, etc.
    • it’s good for drag & drop / mouse heavy interactions, the keyboard navigation is still clunky (hard to select some sections just by using keyboard)
    • no community plugins

    I use Obsidian to write my language grammar notes, it’s very fast, and I could do most stuff on keyboard without switching to mouse.

    I use Anytype to setup kanban boards, information of my video games backlog, I use it for planning tasks that I wanna do later, set the status to in-progress, and watch it show up on the dashboard. It’s very linkage heavy.

    Anytype is probably more of a replacement of Notion, instead of Obsidian, albeit it’s still in alpha, thus it doesn’t have enough features to go against Notion yet. But I am enjoying it thoroughly, the UI is clean and not bloated, although it requires you to define Objects and Relations if you want to fully utilize it.


  • There are several that I’ve been using / trying out:

    • Notion
      • used to be good, but it’s becoming more and more bloated, and nowadays those AI command options seem to be cluttering the quick commands.
      • It is freemium, and syncs with their servers.
      • It has a really good table creation system, and the keyboard navigation flows really well.
      • I stopped using it since it’s becoming slower and bloated, and migrated my language notes to Obsidian.
    • Obsidian
      • is very capable (except that it doesn’t a good WYSIWYG table creation / adjustment system),
      • it has tons of community plugins, very fast, lightweight, and customizable.
      • Completely free, but it does take some tinkering, and some parts do look kinda awful.
      • If you’ve been taking long notes with markdown, then Obsidian will probably suit you.
      • I have all my language notes written in Obsidian and synced to Github with a plugin.
    • Anytype
      • is the latest one I’m trying out. Still in alpha, version 0.32
      • It is clunky at times, because the keyboard navigation is not well implemented, you still need to rely on mouse to select some sections.
      • But it has a really interesting type / relation definition system, where you define an object type, e.g. Movie, and you can define templates, relation to other objects (e.g. relation to Directors, etc).
      • I’m currently using it to plan my games / streaming backlog, it has a good table and data view system.

    I believe all 3 of them have android apps.