Set up your Anytype to easily navigate to frequently-used pages for work, life, or school.

Hey everyone, it's Charlotte from AnyType, and today I'm going to show you how to create beautiful dashboards to help you organize and navigate your work better.

In our case, a dashboard is really nothing more than an object with links to other objects.

Their purpose is to help you access your knowledge more quickly by connecting it associatively.

You can see that in my AnyType, I've pinned 3 dashboards to my sidebar.

1 for self, which is all about self-care and improvement, 1 for home, which is about managing my household, and 1 for studies, which has links to my course notes and lectures.

They're all formatted differently, but the principle is the same.

1 main object with several linked objects that are related to it.

Now what's cool about using this dashboard structure is that linking objects to each other allows you to create clusters inside your knowledge graph.

So instead of having a bunch of objects floating around in space, they're actually connected by common themes.

In this sense, a dashboard object works almost like a web page which contains links to other sub pages.

And in the graph you can visualize how all these links connect to 1 another.

To demo this I'm going to create a new dashboard by jumping to my plus button here and creating a page in Anytype.

This time I want to create a dashboard with copies of all my important documents, because I quite often need to refer to them, and any type is probably 1 of the safest places for me to keep digital copies.

I want to add my passport, residence permit, driver's license, and medical records.

Once I've written these down, I can bulk select all of these blocks and turn them into objects, in this case documents.

Once I've turned them into objects, you can see that they're both clickable and editable.

All I need to do is add the relevant information for each of them.

By default, links you create in any type appear as clickable text blocks, But if you'd like, you're also free to select the link block and change the appearance to that of a card with an icon and cover if you wish.

Like this, you can see that I've created my safety box dashboard and if I open it in the graph, I now see everything linked together.

Now that I've created this object, I'm going to add it as a widget to my sidebar just so it's easy for me to find it anytime I open AnyType.

A super simple way to approach your object organization and navigation in any type.

Remember that everything you create here is private, available offline, and owned by you.


Speaker 0: Hey everyone, it's Charlotte from AnyType, and today I'm going to show you how to create beautiful dashboards to help you organize and navigate your work better. In our case, a dashboard is really nothing more than an object with links to other objects. Their purpose is to help you access your knowledge more quickly by connecting it associatively. You can see that in my AnyType, I've pinned 3 dashboards to my sidebar. 1 for self, which is all about self-care and improvement, 1 for home, which is about managing my household, and 1 for studies, which has links to my course notes and lectures.

They're all formatted differently, but the principle is the same. 1 main object with several linked objects that are related to it. Now what's cool about using this dashboard structure is that linking objects to each other allows you to create clusters inside your knowledge graph. So instead of having a bunch of objects floating around in space, they're actually connected by common themes. In this sense, a dashboard object works almost like a web page which contains links to other sub pages.

And in the graph you can visualize how all these links connect to 1 another. To demo this I'm going to create a new dashboard by jumping to my plus button here and creating a page in Anytype. This time I want to create a dashboard with copies of all my important documents, because I quite often need to refer to them, and any type is probably 1 of the safest places for me to keep digital copies. I want to add my passport, residence permit, driver's license, and medical records. Once I've written these down, I can bulk select all of these blocks and turn them into objects, in this case documents.

Once I've turned them into objects, you can see that they're both clickable and editable. All I need to do is add the relevant information for each of them. By default, links you create in any type appear as clickable text blocks, But if you'd like, you're also free to select the link block and change the appearance to that of a card with an icon and cover if you wish. Like this, you can see that I've created my safety box dashboard and if I open it in the graph, I now see everything linked together. Now that I've created this object, I'm going to add it as a widget to my sidebar just so it's easy for me to find it anytime I open AnyType.

And that's it! A super simple way to approach your object organization and navigation in any type. Remember that everything you create here is private, available offline, and owned by you. Thanks for watching.

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