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Good note by @[email protected] is what kind of license they use:

While our core solutions, the infrastructure protocol any-sync, and the data protocol any-block, are released as open source under the permissive MIT license, we distribute the remaining layers, including the middleware library any-heart, and applications like anytype-js, anytype-swift, and anytype-kotlin, under the Any Source Available License. This license grants individuals the freedom to review, modify, and utilize the code for personal, academic, scientific, research, and development purposes. However, for commercial use, consent from the Any Association is required.

This way, we guarantee everyone the right to use, modify, and distribute the data exchange protocol and the data format, ensuring that anyone is free to create any application on top of them. We guarantee free, non-commercial usage of the software and full transparency of the code. However, considering the substantial R&D resources required for the application layer, we believe that businesses and networks utilizing our software for commercial purposes should contribute towards its ongoing development, allowing maintainers to support and enhance the platform.

The Any Association, based in Zug, Switzerland, is an organization that will govern the rights to use the software and will provide an opportunity for other significant contributors to join a sort of digital cooperative and become the governors of the software as well. This empowers significant contributors to co-decide the next steps of product development and protects them from rivals’ abuse.

https://blog.anytype.io/our-open-philosophy/

https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md


There is also another 'open source alternative to Notion' project called AppFlowy, which uses a AGPL-3.0 license. I will try to post about that project once I get more familiar with it

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FYI, this is not open source and uses it's own source available license.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Good note, I will edit that in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a ...social workspace? It feels a bit icky though, like being teenage peer pressured to go to a mall. Just a little too consumery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah I'm guessing that's gonna be part of the business model. I don't personally see it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Looks like it's made by some fintech people (interestingly most of the top contributors are Russian immigrants) so likely it's not expected to be True Opensourceβ„’, but IMO still way better than Notion, which trains its AI on your data whether you want it or not.

I like the graph! It's more functional than one in Obsidian and looks better. Import from Notion is OK. They have yet to implement a web clipper for Firefox, so not very usable for me now, cause I'm avoiding anything Chrome-based considering latest Google endeavors. But I'll definitely check it again after some time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Anytype is actually amazing. It has all the opportunities to become the best Notion replacement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I would use something like this, but probably not this though. Feels too sneaky somehow, like they're going to pull the rug out as soon as I get comfortable...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I see a lot of this recently.

I wall of text about software whose purpose I have no idea.

Going to their homepage doesn't help much either. Looks like some kind of self hosted social network?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

More of a productivity tool, similar to Notion if you are familiar with that. If you aren't, I tried explaining some more here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/8843380

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The app is a fantastic idea but I can already see myself struggling to convince people to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I didn't use Notion much myself, but I'm hoping that AnyType and AppFlowy can implement features that Notion hasn't. That could get people to switch

What would help though is

  • painless importing from Notion, for people that already built up a lot of content there

  • guides on the specific changes, similar to what Windows/MacOS or Android/iOS have for people switching over

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I downloded the app since it mentioned i can make a personal wiki with it but the ui is pretty damn confusing. Anyone understand how to make a wiki with it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I share this criticism, it's got so many features that it gets confusing.

What I did was start with a single page, and then added more pages from that one (I think the / key should bring up options). Trying to understand everything before starting was impossible