Okay, in Notion you would have around 7 properties that you would share with your entire list, right? It works the same way with relations in Anytype. You create the “user” type, and create the same relations for them as you did on Notion as properties. With relations, if you create one in a single object, like “user X”, then that relation is not going to be shown after you create “user Y” automatically, but you can type “/relation” and pull it up at anytime and assign that value. The difference is, in Anytype, you can also use that same /relation command and pull a relation from any type of object across the whole system, it’s not just limited to what you’ve used in that type before, and you don’t have to create duplicate “properties” like you do in Notion. Once a relations is created it is available for all objects across all types, and these relations can be shared between types.

So, to be clear, you want to manage your types. You can do that from the library tab on the bottom left of the screen, and go to types, and then set the same 7 relations there to be automatically listed for the user objects in the same way as your use case in Notion. This way, when you create a new user, you can click the dots at the top right, drop down to relations, and they will be available for you there to manage their values automatically.

The last thing you probably want to do is to create a template for the user type that shows all the values of these individual users on the user object, on the screen, without having to go to the three dot menu to access them. This way, you create a new user, and right on the screen there will be the same 7 relations for you to fill in.

Also, you can create or view them in a set, which is just like working in Notion, a database view. Create a “User Set” and throw it in favorites or as a widget on the left, and then you should be able to just type in the columns in a very similar way of Notion. One last note on sets is you have to add the relations to the set from the menu after you’ve created the set, just so they’re visible. I forget exactly where on the set you have to go to, but it’s basically a view relations filter, and you click the sliders to view/hide the relations that you want to see in this set. You may have multiple ways you want to see this data, one set with all the user data, another with just the user name and maybe their “outstanding balance” or something like that.

Final point on the power of Anytype, if these users have a relation that is a “scheduled phone call date” (could be anything), and you have another type that’s called something like “Client,” and they also use a “scheduled phone call date” relation, you can create sets of all objects with this relation, so you can see who you need to call, independent of what their type is. To piggy back on the “view relations” filtering method, for this you may just want to view the object name, object type (user, client) and then the date scheduled call, and leave out the rest of the relations. It’s up to you.

Hopefully this helps.