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Stumbled on this program called Anytype a while ago, a note-taking application similar to Notion. It's surprisingly well polished and works for me.

They have a lot of aspects which seem like they'd appeal to more privacy-conscious people. Plus decentralization should appeal to Lemmings of course. But as far as I'm aware I've never heard anyone talk about this program. I was wondering if this is just due to obscurity, or if there are reasons it's not often recommended.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Been using it on a daily basis for many months now. It has proven to be reliable for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I’m not a power user by any means but I moved over from obsidian and haven’t had any issues so far. I’m using the free cloud storage right now but will look into self hosting if I get more serious about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is it feasible to just sync the database with Nextcloud (I.e. is the database just a bunch of files)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can't say for sure. Everything is considered an object in anytype. As I understand it every line of text, every bullet point could be its own file. Instead of one markdown file for each page like obsidian does. How this will affect the syncing I can't say.

Right now you can't turn off the built-in sync with their servers (except by blocking traffic with a firewall). So there isn't really anything to gain in hosting the files yourself.

They plan to implement 3rd party sync though and there seems to be a docker image to self host, that would likely be a better option. https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/data-and-security/data-storage-and-deletion/self-hosting