Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative
This is awesome! Love to see more local-first, security-focused apps! Especially ones that are free.<p>Asking because I&#x27;m currently working on a local-first app that I am gaming out how to sync to non-local networks: The docs state that the app syncs to local P2P networks. Does that mean it doesn&#x27;t sync across the internet? If so, is that because of the cost of maintaining&#x2F;renting a TURN server? Or is there a technical limitation? If it does sync across the open internet, are there restrictions to that?<p>Sorry for the grilling! It&#x27;s just an area of interest at the right time. In trying to come up with a WebRTC solution, I think I&#x27;ve settled on defeat. The local network syncing works like a charm, but I haven&#x27;t had any luck in trying to get around a TURN server by using an API endpoint to provide routing data. It would be nice if there were other prebuilts than COTURN (something deployable to a deno&#x2F;node server would be ideal), but with what we currently have, I think I&#x27;ve settled on just pushing the encrypted data through my api server, letting users encrypt and decrypt with well-known hashing, based on some key they provide in each client (exporting client and importing client; they never exchange keys).<p>Anyway, my pet projects aside, this thing looks really full-featured! Great work here. I use Notion, daily, and this could easily replace it for me. In fairness, I don&#x27;t take full advantage of Notion, but I doubt most people do either. Seems like you&#x27;ve covered enough of the bases to provide a real product for all but some edge cases, so that&#x27;s pretty awesome! I&#x27;ll echo others in lamenting a web app; that&#x27;s what will keep me from switching from Notion, because its just not portable enough for the work I do. But, otherwise, I&#x27;m happy with it so far. Gonna try to plan some stuff in it and see if there are any creaky wheels!