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Wasn’t self-hosting but trying it out with their server for awhile. I think the idea is great, and I think one of its big UI advantages is it’s a lot more intuitive on mobile than most other personal knowledge management / note takers I’ve used.
I did find it pretty buggy at times and a lot of the features not built out enough yet to be a daily driver for any particular use case of mine yet. I’ve tucked away into my “cool projects to check up on at a later date” mental drawer.
I've used it for 3 months. Really like it and the options it provides. Very useful resource althougg I'm not self hosting yet. Lack of collaboration an issue but I believed its on the roadmap
I am also using it, it is a great alternative to Notion but of course has more limited functionality.
For me the deal breaker is that you cannot share your notes or invite collaborators.
Text editing sometimes also seems clunky. I think this app has a great potential and I hope they continue improving it.
Ah, collaboration was the main thing I was looking for
Sadly, it is not yet supported but from what I read it is on their roadmap and high in the priority list.
Nice ok
I'll continue with Joplin and check back into this later on
Kinda like it, but there are some ux things I don't like. i.e. - tags are not in the search
I've been using it for a while, since the alpha. The mobile and desktop apps have matured nicely with a nice consistent UI. I've jumped from Joplin, to logseq, and now happy with anytype.
I am also - and always will be - a joplin-user and thought about outsourcing the tasks/todos. Was looking for selfhostable, opensource alternative with a mobile app (iOS) but it was harder to find sth than i expected.
These were my candidates:
SiYuan -> selfhosting does not work with apps (web only)
Anytype -> did not get the server to run (there are a lot of variables in the dockercompose.yaml und .env)
Affine -> there are no mobile apps at the moment
Logseq -> no selfhosting
Now i try to get Appflowy to run on my server: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Cloud/blob/main/doc/DEPLOYMENT.md
BTT: For shoppinglist i use kitchenowl, for collaboration mostly nextcloud.
Not self-hosting, but I have been using Anytype for a few months now and absolutely love it. I’m doing a lot of online coursework, and so I’m using Anytype to take and organize my notes actively for several hours a day, every day. I also use it for task tracking, journalling, and it has just generally become the place where I dump any kind of info I might need to retrieve in the future.
There is a learning curve before you get the hang of it. I was also frustrated by the editor at first, but now that I have learned some of the slash commands, added in with markdown formatting, I find it to be really efficient. One oddity that likely trips folks up is that every paragraph is a separate “block” which makes partially selecting text across blocks impossible. On the other hand though, it makes grabbing a block and repositioning or reformatting the contents super simple.
Keep in mind that Anytype is offline first, p2p for syncing, and end-to-end encrypted. So the value of self hosting is, I suppose, not using their provided (currently free) backup node? It doesn’t seem like a big deal to me unless you don’t trust the encryption.
Understandable ok, since it's open source it should be fine just using theirs.
Another reason I was thinking of self-hosting was so that I could upload larger files and really fill it up with content. Some competing services really lock down the features for free users and limit storage to the point where it's not usable, so I thought self-hosting might be a way around that.
In the meantime I'll try with their one :)
You make a very good point here. Currently the provided backup node is limited to 10GB, which is a lot, but probably not for what you are trying to accomplish. The Anytype folks have also stated that in the future they plan to charge for larger backup nodes, which may be something you want to avoid.
In the meantime, because syncing is p2p, I believe you can effectively self-host by just making sure you have an internet-connected machine always running the client app. In that way, there will always be a peer to sync to, even if your backup node is full and not accepting more data.