athens
Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven. (by athensresearch)
logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life. (by logseq)
| athens | logseq | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | 574 | |
| 6,303 | 43,331 | |
| -0.1% | 1.9% | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| over 3 years ago | about 23 hours ago | |
| Clojure | Clojure | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
athens
Posts with mentions or reviews of athens.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
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Brimm: Notion-inspired versatile knowledge management backed by a graph you own. Coming Q1 2024.
You might be interested in how in Athens we modelled properties as named (map-like) block relationships: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/blob/main/doc/adr/0026-properties.md
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Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
The underlying in memory datalog style database that can run in the browser that enables these apps
- Athens (open-source Roam Research) is no longer being actively maintained
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Self-hosted journaling app
There is a docker compose file on there github that made things easy to get started. Has a web interface and was very quick. You could have multiple users as well.
- Any zk like app that can run on a web server?
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I can't use local disk storage with Athens, help pls. I just want to install pacakges with no internet connection....
I need a guide how to install athens for installing previously downloaded go packages. I have created a binary file from athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens and configure .toml with path to local storage, also change the storage parameter to [disk
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Suggestions for private, secure, and open notebooks or PKMs that support bidirectional links?
Athens
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Does a kind guru want to make a docker app available to the unraid community?
Get the docker compose manager. Create a new stack and put in the docker Compose file from Athens. Change to the ports and volumes you want and you are good to go.
- Where/ how you store and distribute documentation?
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docker-compose for selfhosted athens notes
Has anyone successfully running a selfhosted version of Athens from athensreseach. There is a demo. They even have a document page with some help for docker.
logseq
Posts with mentions or reviews of logseq.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-30.
- Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing
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AI Coding Tip 020 - Create a Second Brain
Choose a local Markdown tool like Obsidian, Logseq, Foam, or Tolaria to store all your knowledge as plain .md files you own and control.
- Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian
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Forgetful gets procedural and prospective memory
I should call out another thing that convinced me was a user of forgetful (twsta) posted in the discord a skill for managing wok and todos from how they used to use Logseq
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Backseat Software
Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian: https://github.com/logseq/logseq
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Refactoring How I Learn
The Zettelkasten method is a knowledge management system that helps organise ideas effectively. I believe this system would work well for myself, so I have been looking at applications such a Logseq and Zettlr as a result. I am currently using a Wiki-style solution in Zim, however.
- Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management
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A live catalog of Logseq plugins, by @rudifa
Logseq is a personal knowledge management and note-taking application.
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Obsidian, Notion, Logseq?! The note-taking stack that doesn’t suck for devs
Logseq (Markdown outliner + journal): https://logseq.com
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Obsidian Bases
What do you think of Logseq or SiYuan?
Logseq[1] is also markdown based but also has a block approach.
[1]: https://logseq.com/
[2]: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
SiYuan[2] is more similar to Notion, but self-hostable.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing athens and logseq you can also consider the following projects:
foam - A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
dendron - The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
AppFlowy - Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
AFFiNE - There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.