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Outlike looks fantastic. I prefer open source to build a Knowledge Base for my business.
IN my understanding the licence allows me to use it and do what I could do with a normal open source licence except that I cannot build another SaaS using the code?
https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE
Am I correct to understand that this licence says that the license changes to a fully open one after 2025? What's the catch?
Outline's rich-markdown-editor (https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor) package is pretty nice. I have used it to make some custom MD editor/CMS experiment.
There are quite a few options for markdown + git knowledge bases, eg. Obsidian. You can easily find more alternatives discussed here on HN by starting a search on Obsidian.
If you’re looking for more of a CMS there’s quite a few options out there, most notably static site generators like docusaurus or vuepress. Plug: I’ve built a small tool to generate the markdown from notion, which allows me to use notion as my CMS editor while keeping the generated site fully under my control. https://github.com/meshcloud/notion-markdown-cms
I'd surmise that if you tried you get so far away from what email was meant to support it would have been a better idea to create something new anyway.
There's also JMAP[0]
[0]: https://jmap.io/
There is Logseq (https://logseq.com/) although it is more oriented to recreate Roam.
Athens Research (https://www.athensresearch.org/) uses a workflowy like UI. It comes with a bunch of other features, but you can ignore those pretty easily.
Obsidian with the Outliner plugin is also nice - although Obsidian isn't open source, it is free and all your data is stored locally as markdown files.
https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion)
It looks like desktop software built with Flutter. Their editor is based on https://github.com/singerdmx/flutter-quill which also has a web version, so maybe they’ll be able to target web in the future. For now I don’t think they support multi-user sharing or collaboration yet, and I didn’t see web features listed on their roadmap either.
Hmm that's interesting, can I please request you to open the issue https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io-issues/issues so I can fix it. Thanks!
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