Re:Anytype: A local, privacy-first Notion alternative
by rektide on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:25PM
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Some very neat semantic-web looking ideas on the screens here.
The word is a huge turn off for a lot people, but that's a pity. There were a lot of problems (a very isolated ivory-tower community high among them), but there's ideas about making data common & open that are very compelling. It's not really data... just a general systems ability to have things, in information spaces.
I haven't spent much time with Notion, but the data-centric model is interesting. I was really interested a couple months ago to find out Roam uses Datomic under the hood[1][2], that this data-centric model deeply underpins it's capabilities. Amusingly, there was another open-source Notion project that sprung up right around then, AppFlowy[3].
The word is a huge turn off for a lot people, but that's a pity. There were a lot of problems (a very isolated ivory-tower community high among them), but there's ideas about making data common & open that are very compelling. It's not really data... just a general systems ability to have things, in information spaces.
I haven't spent much time with Notion, but the data-centric model is interesting. I was really interested a couple months ago to find out Roam uses Datomic under the hood[1][2], that this data-centric model deeply underpins it's capabilities. Amusingly, there was another open-source Notion project that sprung up right around then, AppFlowy[3].
[1] https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/01/Roam-Data-Structure-Query.htm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295532 (51 points, 6mo ago, 4 comments)
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29385476
[3] https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384341 (149 points, 6mo ago, 21 comments)