Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base

1. Outline

   1 204 32,033 9.9 TypeScript

   The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

   

   Just be careful that while it is self-hostable and the source is available, it is not open source [1,2]. If this is something important for your consideration before using it.

   [1] https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE

   [2] https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-...

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. Keycloak

   2 267 27,198 10.0 Java

   Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services

   

   Outline only uses SSO for authentication. The solution when self hosting is use a private keycloak server [1]. This allows you to do email based auth.

   [1] https://www.keycloak.org/

4. silicon

   3 10 236 6.8 Python

   Silicon Notes, a web-based personal knowledge base with few frills (by cu)

   

   It's nowhere near as featureful as Outline, but I wrote my own Markdown knowledge base thingy in Python. It is web-based and geared toward single-user (or _very_ small team use) but it's Apache licensed and has no commercial tie-ins. Super easy to deploy as long as you know how to layer some rudimentary authentication on top of it.

   https://github.com/cu/silicon

5. mdBook

   4 110 19,634 9.5 Rust

   Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

   

   My org has used mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ (That link is itself a rendered mdBook, so that'll give you an idea of the feature set.)

   (While it's definitely a Rust "thing", if you just have a set of .md files, all you need is a "SUMMARY.md" (which contains the ToC) and a small config file; i.e., you don't have to have any Rust code to use it, and it works fine without. We document a large, mostly non-Rust codebase with it.)

6. Trilium Notes

   5 284 28,622 9.1 JavaScript

   Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

   

   Then you come across Trilium and drop the mic

   [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

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