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# [[Anytype]]
[site](https://anytype.io)
Anytype is a [[Personal Knowledge Management]] tool that places a huge importance on the philosophy of openness and freedom, which is strange when you realize two things about it:
1. Anytype is [[Open source|opensource]], but read-only.
2. Anytype notes use a non-standard format.
Div, someone from the Anytype team, confirmed that Anytype notes are saved as protobuf, Markdown, and json files-- meaning that only Anytype would be able to easily and natively read all the interconnections between them.
Co-founder [[Anton Pronkin]] also confirmed that Anytype cannot use existing standards because of how it's built.