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Anytype

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Velocity5.0

Local-first knowledge management and note-taking app.

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Anytype's alpha track is heads-down on chat performance, not new surface area

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◆Current state
Anytype is shipping rapidly on its alpha and nightly tracks, and nearly all recent work targets chat: faster opening of large chats, smoother fast-scroll, and a string of context-menu and link-handling fixes. The feed mixes substantive alpha builds with low-signal nightly cuts that carry a single commit.
◆Where it's heading
Chat has clearly become a first-class object type inside Anytype, and the team is in a performance-and-polish phase on it, shaving seconds off big-chat open times and fixing scroll thrash, paste detection, and copy-link ambiguity. The broader local-first knowledge tool isn't pivoting; it's hardening a feature that's now central enough to dominate the changelog.
◆Prediction
Expect the chat performance work to consolidate into a stable release, with continued small fixes to message menus and link handling before attention rotates back to spaces and objects.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    v0.55.21-alpha

    Skips ObjectOpen for chat objects to drive opening from subscription, cutting roughly 8s off big-chat open, plus viewport prefetch to reduce fast-scroll stalls. Squarely in the chat-performance arc.

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  2. 6d ago

    v0.55.20-alpha

    More chat render/scroll performance work (de-thrashing date rendering and observer rows) plus a fix for over-eager link detection in pasted text. Incremental hardening of the chat surface.

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  3. 6d ago

    v0.55.19-alpha

    A single-commit version bump with no user-visible change. One of the routine alpha cuts between feature work.

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  4. 8d ago

    Sidebar 'Show as' toggle for My Favorites (nightly)

    Nightly build adding a 'Show as' toggle for the My Favorites sidebar section. A minor UI affordance pulled from an in-progress feature branch.

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  5. 9d ago

    v0.55.16-alpha

    Fixes a space-switch bug where a stale objectId from the previous space produced a 'tree does not exist' error, alongside startup perf tracing and chunk splitting. Reliability work on the multi-space core.

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  6. 11d ago

    Nightly: chat double-click fix

    Nightly build carrying a single chat double-click fix merge. Low-signal interim cut.

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