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  1. Outline

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

    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?

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  3. 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.

  4. rich-markdown-editor

    Discontinued The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account:

    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.

  5. focalboard

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

  6. notion-markdown-cms

    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

  7. jmap

    JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)

    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/

  8. 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.

    There is Logseq (https://logseq.com/) although it is more oriented to recreate Roam.

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  10. obsidian-outliner

    Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch

    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

  11. flutter-quill

    Rich text editor for Flutter

    (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.

  12. bangle-io-issues

    Discontinued Please open issues in https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io

    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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