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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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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.
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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athens
Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.
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flatnotes
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
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Hence, a higher number means a better Gollum alternative or higher similarity.
Gollum discussion
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Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo
You know who else used git backed pages?
https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki
This is pretty simple and dumb :-)
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WordPress Is in Trouble
Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.
Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.
- My Simple Knowledge Management and Time Tracking System
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
Not many wiki site engines based on Markdown work directly from git as cleanly as this.
There's a few of them though, such as this old Ruby lang standby with a decade's worth of features that a decade ago was a way to host your same GitHub Pages site locally, supporting SSO:
https://github.com/gollum/gollum
https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki/Gollum-via-Rack-and-CA...
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Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs
I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files.
https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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TIL about the "gollum" GitHub Action event
One of the cool things with the update adding git support to GitHub Wiki was that it was using gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum) and GitHub wanted to become more open source themselves (https://github.blog/2010-08-12-making-github-more-open-git-b...). Sadly, it seems like they have diverged by now, according to the GitHub Wiki on the gollum repository.
Seems there is still some historical artifacts from it left.
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Can Git or any other VCS be used as a database instead of SQL/NoSQL ones? Have you ever seen such a thing?
Arguably something like ikiwiki or gollum is doing this. These are both wikis that use git as their backend 'database'. I happen to like wikis like this a lot better over wikis that store their data in mysql or some other traditional SQL backend.
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Looking for notion/jira alternatives (self-hosted) (JavaScript free)
Gollum is self-hosted and uses git for version control https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
https://github.com/gollum/gollum ?
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Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
For something quick and easy consider https://github.com/gollum/gollum#markups which powers Github Wikis.
Note that multi-user auth is NOT supported out of the box however.
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www.saashub.com | 14 Jun 2026
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gollum/gollum is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
Gollum is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Gollum is Ruby.
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