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(Soft Vendor Lock-in) Exporting Relations in Markdown Format #1710

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Shay-2002 opened this issue Oct 19, 2024 · 0 comments
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(Soft Vendor Lock-in) Exporting Relations in Markdown Format #1710

Shay-2002 opened this issue Oct 19, 2024 · 0 comments
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Currently, an object exported in markdown format loses ALL relation data. This is a huge issue since handling any remotely large amount of data in Anytype basically requires the use of relations (which then often become the backbone of data organization with the use of collections and sets which incentivize relation based sorting methods). Since this relation data isn't exported, a lot of important context (and in some cases, major amounts of information) is lost.

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Simply modify the markdown export to include data about relations as well as where they are assigned in the exported document.

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Not really, I mean relations are a pretty core feature of Anytype. If I stop using relations for fear of losing data or my data being locked-in, why would I use Anytype at all?

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Let's call a spade a spade, this is currently an unfortunate type of vendor-lock in (even if unintentional which I'd like to believe it is unintentional).

@Shay-2002 Shay-2002 added the enhancement New feature or request label Oct 19, 2024
@ra3orblade ra3orblade transferred this issue from anyproto/anytype-ts Oct 19, 2024
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