Alternative for Notion

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • Outline

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

  • vimwiki

    Personal Wiki for Vim

    I am using vimwiki to take my notes and to create basic note structure. Those are stored on my server and are synced using syncthing to all my devices. Then, I have a very basic cronjob on the server that every minute or so converts the notes to html (from vimwiki specific .wiki files). I'm also running a basic password protected apache website that displays these notes, so no matter where am I or what device am I using, I can view them. But I can only edit the notes from my device with vimwiki (or ssh-ing into home server and editing them that way might be an option, but would not recommend without a VPN).

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

    I am using vimwiki to take my notes and to create basic note structure. Those are stored on my server and are synced using syncthing to all my devices. Then, I have a very basic cronjob on the server that every minute or so converts the notes to html (from vimwiki specific .wiki files). I'm also running a basic password protected apache website that displays these notes, so no matter where am I or what device am I using, I can view them. But I can only edit the notes from my device with vimwiki (or ssh-ing into home server and editing them that way might be an option, but would not recommend without a VPN).

  • syncrclone

    Python-based bi-direction sync tool for rclone

    I use notebooks app on my iPhone and macOS. I use the dropbox sync (with my own rclone-driven sync tool) but it supports webDAV so you can self-host the sync.

  • focalboard

    Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

  • siyuan

    A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

  • QOwnNotes

    QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.

    QOwnNotes After trying all of those : QOwnNotes my favourite now. https://www.qownnotes.org

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • TiddlyWiki

    A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.

  • Zettlr

    Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

    Lots of great options already mentioned by others. I'll add one more: Zettlr.

  • scripts

    QOwnNotes script repository (by qownnotes)

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