Our Review: Testing the PARA Method in Anytype 

Charlotte should consider creating an ASMR channel. WHAT A SOOTHING VOICE! Apart from that, thanks for teaching me a new framework. Lots of love!

Hello, just want to say that I may have run into a couple of limitations or slight difficulty in choosing what exactly the type should be, but I must say it is still quite a flexible software. It is so refreshing to see the creators showing how they use it or what are the possibilities. Enjoying the videos a lot. Thanks so much!

I'm using a similar system but opted for sets instead of collections for the PARA categories. I'm not sure which is better, but I'm starting to feel Anytypes limitations. The linking is very cumbersome and not intuitive. Also, your system will eventually require additional filters/sorting as you add more objects (primarily to the resources category). You're also missing an important factor to the system, the objects within an area either need to be categorized as projects or resources. That means you need a way to link these to a relevant area and also be able to show them on the area itself. I'm currently doing this with inline sets but the overall linking system in Anytype needs more work and makes it difficult. We at least need a way to see (and even filter by) an objects backlinks. We also need bi-directional object relations like notion has. These would make it easier to link objects together.

The first thing I did when I understood how AnyType works was 1) delete everything 2) Create Bookshelf hierarchy: Bookshelf: Container of books Book: Container of Topics Topic: A page containing information Example: School --> Math --> Functions Example2: Personal --> Dreams --> Dream1 |--> ToDo --> Today Now, AnyType definitey needs better filtering for the graph view but otherwise I've found this to do everything I need

Hello Charlotte. I have just come across your presentation and loved every second of it. I am a big fan of the PARA method myself and have built this into my Anytype instance. I'll be happy to share my screen next time you have a product demo🙂. Warm regards, MS

Love the video -> I will be exploring PARA into anytype myself so this tutorial is definitely useful!

I quite like this way to organize all the stuff, but I don't understand why you changed all the objects that in a PARA catagory, like area, into type area, is it necessay? as long as it's collection, it doesn't matter what type that object is, right?

Hello, I would like to thank you for your video. It helped me stick with Anytype after a few looks and unsatisfactory tests. (After switching from the expensive Evernote or Joplin) Now I see the philosophy behind Anytype more clearly. Just one small thing: for me as a German, some explanations were a bit too fast and I couldn't really follow. Not even with stopping and repeating the video. For example: how do I get to the "Checkbox" Thanks a lot and regards

Hi, thank you for the beautiful video! How did you export your entire personal space and, most importantly, make a new personal space at 2:12? Are you forced to log out and create a new account for each personal space?

Thank you. A lot of general (non-para) helps here as well. Anytype needs more how-to videos like this excellent one. Sub++

I came from Notion/Obsidian and found this video has the title I need yet I couldn't follow - I understand it is a review, not meant to be a tutorial. Any suggestions?

the fact that it's offline puts it 50% ahead of Notion

I'm struggling a little with Lists, and how to make sure every object I add to a list has the right relation. I created the Areas collection. Then I created a new Area called "Coffee" for all my coffee experimentation, tracking recipes for specific beans, etc. So I created a new object type called "Coffee Bean". Then, on the page for my "Coffee" area, I tried creating a new set based on the object "Coffee Bean". I create new objects in the set, and I can see the set of various coffee beans. Fine. But, when I go to the graph view, whatever Coffee Bean objects I added to via the set are just orphaned in the graph. The list itself automatically shows a relation to the Coffee area, but the beans are not related to anything. If you go search all objects and open the individual Coffee Bean items, you have to trace to show that this was created in the Coffee area. I don't see a way to, by default, say that every coffee bean object will be related to the area "Coffee". Do you just have to manually "link" them every time you add a new bean to the set?

anytype非常好用，但是多设备数据离线同步我觉得还不够完善，就算离线使用时的Mac和iOS设备同一局域网同步也是时好时坏，我数据是用Synology Drive进行同步了，但是当我一台Mac建立了数据库，另外一台Mac用同一个数据和密钥登陆的时候会出现无法识别数据库的问题，有时候又能正常登陆。

I am sooo wasting today diving into this:))

Useful video but importing the zip file did not seem to change anything in my anytype space.

IMHO it would be nice to have a less agressive UX/UI. Have a look at capacities. Anytype with the UX/UI of capacities would be great!

Thanks for all of this, it is exactly what I need. However, when you take the actions you are discussing, you go way too fast for me [and I assum other newbs] to get much good out of the video. As such I spend too much time setting up the system and not getting work done. Is there any way you could slow down your actions so I could see how you are doing what you are talking about? Just having new screens pop up just adds more questions. Or, have someone else make a more detailed video or blog. For example, at the very start you mention 'Space' 2 or 3 times, but then open a new account? Does the data go to a space or yet another anytype account? Please dont hate me ... Good work on the update!

Tbh I don’t see the light yet

The division Archives and Resources doesn't make sense, in PARA Method.

You lack content. The product is awesome but toutrial stop me from doing something like notion

Is there anyone in here who could teach me the software? At least walk me through the basics of it? I’d be happy to compensate.

Why are you whispering?

Great work charlotte 😃👍. I can personally say that this video was really impressive and although I've been using anytype for over a year now, trying to optimize everything, it was a breath of fresh air and I learned a lot from your organization. I think if Any team can keep producing this kind of quality videos in the future, more and more people would feel welcomed and less threatened to switch since I've been reading a lot of reviews and comments from people who felt confused by all the capabilities of Anytype. I for one can't still make sense of "collection" and how I can properly leverage its functionalities in my system since I've heard and read a lot that Collection is the single most powerful feature of Anytype. Anyway, great work!

You/your team is as nice as I thought you are. :) Nice, kind, calm pesonality. Very elegant, simple video.

Thank you, your method looks so clean. I just scratch the surface of Antype. Your tutorial might be the best way to dive into it more deeper.

Thanks for using my song 'Pyar' in the video!!

I was testing multiple apps to pick one for my personal knowledgement and I really loved Anytype. But right now I can't pick it cause of 2 things: - If an object has backlinks, inside of it we can only show the list of backlinks but not the context around where they were mentioned - We can't exclude some particular objects from the graph like in obsidian I'm sad and hoping these will change later

I hope Anytype can do what Craft.do can do. There are certain aspects of Craft that even Notion doesn’t have which is ‘slide to choose paragraph’. I love the idea of Anytype but since I can’t slide to choose paragraph quickly, I feel Anytype still limited. I don’t know how to explain but if you know how Craft works you should adopt some of its features. I’m glad if Anytype can replace Craft for me. 😊

I have installed this app added to my fav over the 2 years . But i ahve nothing in anytype app. Becaue its too difficult how to organaise ,create , which is sad.

Thanks, for the video, that is a good way to organize things, maybe should be enabled by default? Anyway, I can't make a base_type like Number or Email isn't it? I'd like to be able to format numbers like adding/removing precision or €/$ sign etc

Thank you very much for this video - well done and great to watch. I am coming from Notion where I have a Task Table inside each Project showing which Tasks are still open. Is there a way to do this?

本来还犹豫要不要搬，看到主创和内容创作者都是女性，果断搬。

This was a great video. Thank you!

Hello any type have a markdown?

等我好好研究一下，给你们做个使用经验分享

I've searched all over the internet for "how to import template for anytype" but have found no resources to explain this.

Thank you for this great tutorial ! It helps to understand this fabulous and promising software. Just as a personal input, I don't feel helpful for me to create types "Project", "Area" or "Ressource". I prefer to work with sub-collections instead of Types. In example, to have a sub-collections "My project XYZ" linked to my main collection "PROJECTS" or "Finance education" sub-collection linked to my main collection "AREAS" and so on (maybe I'll change my mind in the future as I imrove my understanding of Anytype). For the Archives, I love the idea of a set filtered on a the Tag "Archive" :)

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

Isn't this like ditching the fundamental concept of types of this application? 2:37: The first three categories - projects, areas, and resources - could be formatted as collections. Collections felt like the most suitable object type because I needed an easy way to add any object, regardless of the type, to one of these categories - similar to the way folders work on your computer.

I feel like I need years to understand everything in this video.

Lovely walkthrough, thank you Charlotte

Make tutorials pleaaasee im losst It's so perfect but idk how to use it properly:

Du lernst also Deutsch? :) Dann kannst du mir mit Sicherheit sagen wann ihr das feature: Tabs und mehrere Seiten in mehreren Tableisten implementiert? Danke für deine Antwort und dir ein schönes Wochenende. Cheers Thomas ;)

Not comprehensive tutorials at all. Not explaining the important details. More like a Walk out through.

Hi anybody. I'm one of your viewers. I'm not 'everybody' of course. No one is. So, don't say 'hi everybody' cause there ain't no such person: everyone watches one at a time in their own study.

Incredible, thank you so much for this tutorial. As someone who is new to AnyType and PKM systems on a whole I have been experimenting a lot with these different note taking and prioritizing systems and I was very elated to see a template available for Anytype. I now feel way more comfortable taking the leap and starting my knowledge management journey with you guys. Thank you so much for all that you do, keep up the hard work guys 🤍