Love it, anything to unseat Atlassian tools is a win in my book. This looks and feels great too. Nice work!
Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
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#172mad respect
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I use started using bookstack when I realized that I wanted a place for long form / long term storage of documents separates from my Notes / To dos. I love it and I deeply appreciate your hard work. For others that haven't tried it, here's what clicked for me: - An opinionated hierarchy of Book -> Chapter (Optional) -> Page - Great search - WYSIWYG OR Markdown supported - Great integr…
Thank you! I love to hear about the specific features people enjoy. > WYSIWYG OR Markdown I will state that switching between them is pretty flaky at the moment, is done at instance level and can cause HTML in markdown. Is designed to be choose-once-and-leave. That said, in rebuilding the editor I am aiming for easy and instant Markdown & WYSIWYG switching within editor.
Just on a practical level, you might as well just disable the option to convert, especially if you're going to swap it out anyway. Sometimes just flipping the switch on a task opens up a little cognitive space for the rest of your work. :)
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I dove into your Laravel code the other day to see how you organized things. Thanks for making it open so I could learn!
Happy to help! I will say that I would in no way present it as an example of a clean codebase. 6 years of weekend and night development, while having significant code understanding/learning during that time, has lead to somewhat of a mix of ideas and approaches. Constantly trying to re-align things though!
Perfectionists don't ship, take an extra slice of pie!
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#175Love it, anything to unseat Atlassian tools is a win in my book. This looks and feels great too. Nice work!
Thank you!
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#176Confluence + Jira is a common combination. It is good to have an alternative to one of these. Anyone has info or suggestion on what are good open source alternatives for Jira?
Depending on which features you need, Gitlab can be a lightweight replacement.
It has good Kanban boards, but does not have custom fields, so everything is done with tags. Also lacks reporting.
In places where I work, the switch to Gitlab was intentional to keep things simple. JIRA had become a monster.
Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
#177Wow. What a coincidence. I installed this last night on my NAS. Came to HN to check if this product has been discussed before and there is a discussion from just today!
Anyway, I was wondering if there is a plug-in infrastructure for BookStack in on the roadmap?
Thank you for the product. Looks neat in the minimum time I have spent on this so far.
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Thank you! I love to hear about the specific features people enjoy. > WYSIWYG OR Markdown I will state that switching between them is pretty flaky at the moment, is done at instance level and can cause HTML in markdown. Is designed to be choose-once-and-leave. That said, in rebuilding the editor I am aiming for easy and instant Markdown & WYSIWYG switching within editor.
Obsidian integration would make me (and likelya bunch of its > 400k other users) happy!
Uhm that, integration with obsidian, kinda off topic as this is a standalone kB software and not an editor right?
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Obsidian integration would make me (and likelya bunch of its > 400k other users) happy!
Uhm that, integration with obsidian, kinda off topic as this is a standalone kB software and not an editor right?
Definitely not off topic. I do not use Obsidian but while Obsidian is a knowledge base software, I can absoslutely see the appeal of being able to organize your thoughts and notes into a full-fledged article and then push to something like Bookstack for public/team consumption.
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#180Glad to see any alternatives to confluence (or Atlassian in general). I've used Confluence for a good 4 years or so and for the life of me, I can not fathom why anyone would use this for storing documentation for code etc, as opposed to storing things direct in a repo. I can understand it's use somewhat for business folks, but even then, the way of organising things is abysmal, every solution (such as rich text editi…
For what it's worth. I work at Atlassian and we don't use Confluence for documenting code.