BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
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BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
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Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#2It seems like there's a lot of recent interest and effort in open-source or self-hosted Notion-like/markdown-with-widgets applications and platforms. AppFlowy (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) comes to mind; I attended one of their monthly "town hall" meetings a few months back, and looks like they're rapidly increasing in popularity. I think there was another similar project like this on HN front page last week, IIRC.
This makes me happy, because I switched to Obsidian primarily for local-first file storage in a platform-agnostic format. I've learned to love many things about Obsidian and am writing a few plugins myself, but there are still several Notion-esq functionalities I wish I had, and I find myself handing off between Obsidian and other webapps for certain effort, like team project management.
I used to get far more excited to explore new projects like BlockSuite, and I really appreciate their documentation, but I find it hard to justify allocating time to reviewing and trying out new tools when I still have much more improve on with my Obsidian usage; this is especially true of newer projects where I'm unsure of their shelf life.
To assuage my internal conflict I remind myself that I think plaintext is fundamentally the right choice for much knowledge collection, and I'm proud to say that if the internet shut down, I'd retain a significant growing fraction of my personal data.
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#3Looks pretty cool. I noticed a few issues when playing with the Playground like if you do a slash command and select one of the items such as entering "to" and then selecting "Today" it shows the date with "to" as the prefix. Overall a cool project though!
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#4Multiplayer? Is this a game?
How extendable is this? Can I add my own blocks? And is this a commercial project with open core, or a truely open source-project?
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#5Multiplayer? Is this a game? How extendable is this? Can I add my own blocks? And is this a commercial project with open core, or a truely open source-project?
> Multiplayer? Is this a game?
Many document editors describe the “collaborative Google-docs like model” of multiple people working on the same document and seeing everyone’s updates in real time as “multiplayer”
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#6It seems like there's a lot of recent interest and effort in open-source or self-hosted Notion-like/markdown-with-widgets applications and platforms. AppFlowy ( https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy ) comes to mind; I attended one of their monthly "town hall" meetings a few months back, and looks like they're rapidly increasing in popularity. I think there was another similar project like this on HN front page last…
It would be interesting to have your perspective, as an Obsidian user, on Logseq(https://logseq.com/). I say this, as like you - I moved towards this for local-first file storage, where content can be edited on any device with any editor and where I have more control over my data.
I did try obsidian briefly, but eventually gravitated towards Notion for knowledge and project management - but found that the bulk of the content I put into this would eventually go stale/unused simply because content was not linked and would instead be held in a table, within a project/area full of other pages of notes. I then found myself on Logseq for the reasons mentioned prior.
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#7Looks pretty cool. I noticed a few issues when playing with the Playground like if you do a slash command and select one of the items such as entering "to" and then selecting "Today" it shows the date with "to" as the prefix. Overall a cool project though!
For me, the issue on the playground is that neither backspace nor delete did anything.
That seems like either a severe bug or limitation.
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#8Multiplayer? Is this a game? How extendable is this? Can I add my own blocks? And is this a commercial project with open core, or a truely open source-project?
> Multiplayer? Is this a game? Many document editors describe the “collaborative Google-docs like model” of multiple people working on the same document and seeing everyone’s updates in real time as “multiplayer”
First time I see this as far as I'm aware. Usually it's collaborative editing. Bit misleading.
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#9Looks pretty cool. I noticed a few issues when playing with the Playground like if you do a slash command and select one of the items such as entering "to" and then selecting "Today" it shows the date with "to" as the prefix. Overall a cool project though!
For me, the issue on the playground is that neither backspace nor delete did anything. That seems like either a severe bug or limitation.
Just get good and don't make any mistakes obviously, what are you some sort of noob?
/s
Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Multiplayer? Is this a game? Many document editors describe the “collaborative Google-docs like model” of multiple people working on the same document and seeing everyone’s updates in real time as “multiplayer”
First time I see this as far as I'm aware. Usually it's collaborative editing. Bit misleading.
Dunno what to tell you. It’s a term used (not super commonly, but not infrequently either) in the space.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22multiplayer%22+document+e...
I don’t think it’s misleading, given the existing usage.