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There is this one note taking app in development atm, which is similar to notion, but it is offline: https://anytype.io/
I am waiting for them to release it so I can switch.

https://anytype.io/ looks incredibly promising. Signed up for the beta back in January, still haven't heard from them. But they recently tweeted that they've started to onboard users, so hopefully will get a peek soon.

I'm always in search of this and there are many but they all suck or lack feature parity. Gave up and simply moved to Notion. There is a new project https://anytype.io but I'm not pinning any hopes on it.

I'm Zhanna - a co-founder of Anytype. We’re building a self-hosted all-in-one tool - for life, knowledge and work organization. Everything runs locally and data syncs directly between devices – there’s no cloud here. Users are writing study notes, creating collections of books, recipes, games, lego pieces, managing tasks, people, and devices, logging their runs. We use ipfs, libp2p and textile threads to create this magic. Free to use without upload limits as you use your own resources. Encrypted with public key cryptography (anytype has no access to any information or encryption keys).
This is a first look at our alpha on iPhone that completes our journey of covering all main platforms on desktop and mobile.
We are still in closed alpha, but we now invite more people each month - this month we sent more than 1,000 of invites. If you have questions, I’d love to answer them.

Noticed nobody mention Anytype, it's a future open source platform for all the tasks you listed. It's not quite ready yet, still under Closed Alpha phase, but am so pumped to try that out when they release the Beta. Do check out their subreddit r/Anytype for latest news/ updates.

Meanwhile, my current app for note-taking and planner is Taskade. Not open source however and there are two versions: 1) free and 2) premium that comes with an monthly fee of US$5. What it does is quite powerful and mind blowing, especially the way you want to view your planner. Mindmap feature ftw!

Linkme: Taskade

Quickly scrolled through your website, looks nice! Question about files. If I were to install this on a server, could I mount a share with existing files and have them show up in Anytype.io after a scan, or would I have to add the files through the Anytype interface to get them added?

A block model (used in Roam and Athens at least) means that each text block (paragraph or outline bullet point) is stored as a discrete object with an identity, permitting block includes and other features.

The alternative is the page model used by Logseq and Obsidian, where text is stored as pages rather than blocks.

For most people there isn't a ton of difference between these (the exception being block includes) but I have some personal tools that assume a block model.

Anytype.io looks pretty interesting, albeit pure hype for now. It's impossible to tell from that website what it really does or who is behind it. I signed up for their alpha list though.

https://anytype.io/ has been marketed as one but not out yet
Seems like vaporware to me at this point but they're active on twitter/reddit, saying will release this year, so maybe not

I am desperately waiting for Anytype. A successful release will cost Notion loads and loads of customers. Especially everyone longing for offline support and everyone outside the US because Notion is unable to introduce E2EE.

I tried obsidian synced with git to my various devices, along with a GitHub action to look for pages tagged “public” and publish them to my public wiki site using Material for MkDocs

The whole process of using git to sync everything was really cumbersome when all I wanted to do was write things down. Dealing with pulling, pushing, merge conflicts, etc got in the way.

I ended just deciding to use Notion and to come back to the idea of a public wiki later. If something is important enough and should be public I can blog about it.

That said, I’m hoping Anytype gets more functional soon. I’m in the alpha program and it looks promising as a Notion replacement, it’s but not quite there yet.

Anytype.io - Free to use as of today as It's still in development, but you can access it by signing up on the website(I have been using it for the past 6 months, and I'm loving it) It will be great notion competitor in coming year.

The app is fully focused on Privacy, Security and has Offline mode to use.

If you need more info on this project, join the discord/telegram from the website.

keep an eye on anytype

it's not public ready yet, but it may be exactly what you need

it saves and organizes almost anything plus encrypted, slefhosted, free and open source

It is currently in early alpha and not as powerful as notion, but it looks very promising, is privacy focused. Here is their website: anytype.io

It is worth keeping an eye on it, but give it maybe another year. You can sign up for their early alpha and beta access if you are curious and already want to test it.

Anytype is the answer. Still in closed beta but you can ask for access, they give it quite often. anytype website

It uses offline local storage but you can have cloud saved storage too if you want and the project is still growing up!

Duplicate ?
Guess you're expecting what everybody is awaiting like the messiah.

Way less sophisticated but rely on local storage : Joplin, Obsidian, Trilium.

Don't know whether Anytype.io is planning to have an offline mode or not. Hopefully answers will come by June.

I'm Zhanna - a co-founder of Anytype. This is a first look at our alpha on Android, which we’re developing alongside our desktop app. We’re still in closed alpha, but we’re always looking for feedback. I’d love to answer any questions you have.

• Offline Mode
• Password-protect specific pages

These two are the only thing preventing me from making Notion my primary notetaking software (and upgrade my plan).

TBH it's just a matter of whether Notion implement these features soon. Otherwise, I'll just wait until Anytype.io hits stable release.

This is what you're looking for

https://anytype.io/

It seems very similar to Notion but with the ability to self host your server, it's been "coming soon" for a long time, at least a few months since I first saw it advertised

Hoping it gets it released eventually

This is really interesting, but funnily enough I get Chrome's "Your connection is not private" warning when I try to go to anytype.io, since its security certificate had expired.

I did and I haven't looked back. Only thing I miss is the ability to work with media without significant configuration (e.g. playing audio, resizing pictures, embedding files and web pages). But most of my work (I'm a PhD student) is text, pdf, or coding based and the functionality is not even close with Notion.

I also know that I haven't scratched the surface of what org can do and my workflow is already magnitudes better than what I had going with Notion with just capture templates alone.

It was a serious investment, but you can make Emacs into your own little work environment and it's already paid dividends and I'm only a year in.

If you don't decide to go org mode, another Notion alternative focused on privacy is coming out soon called Anytype. Looks promising. I will probably recommend it to friends when it's past early access because the org route isn't for everyone.

Hehe, you could also send your guests a printed invitation created from a Notion-document.

If security is of highest concern, one should rather not use any unencrypted web-service, especially not one, that is hosted on Amazon. Then again, many of your friends will have given A. a lot of their data already...

If you want to stay digital, you might look Into Anytype, they promise to be private. The app doesn't have all of Notions features yet, but it might work for your purpose.

I completely agree with what you say and it is from a users perspective. They teased time-line view in august 2019 saying it was coming soon...

Now, they are saying they are working on improving the core (speed/stability and such) which is cool and all but as a user I don't see the benefit, something I do see from new features/functionality. ;)

I know this might be a bit narrowsighted but that is how most of the users look at your product.

What doesn't help is that on every feature suggestion on twitter or reddit they always react as if they add new features. Saying things like, "Great suggestion, we add it too our list +1". This is frustrating since hardly any new features have been added the past months...

Also, I understand that development takes time, yet other tools (clickup, coda and such) seem to add new features much faster.

For me, I just payed for a new year of notion since there is no real replacement yet. Ones anytype.io comes out I will most likely switch to that.

There is anytype.io that aims for this niche market. https://www.reddit.com/r/NotionSo/comments/ewj5ms/anytype_in_alpha/

Maybe more apps would emerge for this.

Great summary! I love notion and would like to use it to store my thoughts, documents, journals ..., but the exact privacy problems are always troubling me.

To be fair, from the perspective of notion, it's only a small fraction of users that has strong requirements for this E2E feature, and they have lot of other important tasks to do to make sure their SaaS business survive ... So I don't think E2E would come to notion in any near future - Take a look at dropbox, they don't offer E2E even after they have reached billions of market cap.

My best guess this would brew a niche market and other apps like anytype.io would take its share - as long as they can achieve certain feature-parity with notion.

I'm a co-founder of Anytype.io. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer. Just adding a few more details - in Anytype users own their data, no longer depend on corporations (even on Anytype) and can use all their data across all apps and docs. Users exchange data without an intermediary, this we think is the future of web - free from data monopolies of all kind. I would like to ask for feedback on what we are building from this community. We are very early on and can incorporate it into what we are building.

Wow, u/SamLovesNotion... anytype.io looks exactly like what you're asking for. I imagine you'll head that direction if they come out with their product before Notion does anything with security, yes? I signed up for early access.... I'd love to try it out. Thanks for sharing!

I really think you should keep important docs in specialised services like password managers. I'm not worried about the privacy of my personal journal since it's info that is quite useless for anyone beside me.

Side note: OP seems keen on promoting https://anytype.io/ ...

As long as an application is built on top of server-client infrastructures there won't be strong privacy or encryption whatsoever. We'd probably need to either self host or go with sth. like https://anytype.io/ what is built on IPFS and Textile using a completely new web stack - still in alpha phase though.