Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

blocksuite.affine.pro

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 105 posts

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#91

Post by ShortCipher5 »

Thank you all for your attention to BlockSuite, the comprehensive project behind the amazing AFFiNE open-source notetaking app. BlockSuite aims to provide a progressive solution for building collaborative applications.

It includes a block-based framework for composing rich content editors and an out-of-the-box block editor tailored for the AFFiNE knowledge base. With block-based editing, text editing and state management are handled block-by-block, supported by CRDT technology for distributed collaboration.

BlockSuite also offers framework agnostic rendering for scalability and flexibility. For more information about BlockSuite and the AFFiNE project, we welcome you to visit https://affine.pro/ where you can also try it in action.

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#92

Post by ShortCipher5 »

unmole wrote: post #50
milliams wrote: post #20

> BlockSuite (pronounced "block sweet" ) Is there any other way that "BlockSuite" would be pronounced?

I think I'm a fairly proficient English speaker. I know it should be pronounced sweet but I instinctively default to suit .

Yes, this is exactly the reason why.

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#94

Post by ShortCipher5 »

justchad wrote: post #3

Looks 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!

As others mentioned this might be down to browser. It's currently targeted for Chrome.

It's for this reason we recently switched to desktop clients for the parent project, AFFiNE. To create a more standard experience for all users.

As BlockSuite development is currently targeted for AFFiNE, but we hope to resolve many of these browser issues in the future.

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#95

Post by ShortCipher5 »

yayr wrote: post #69

I wish it had a "markdown mode". E.g. where the features of the editor are flagged as markdown compatible and only those features would be enabled. It would then open markdown files and save back to markdown files

That's an interesting idea - sort of like Word and compatibility mode? But with clearer communication on what's MD supported and not?

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#96

Post by d4rkp4ttern »

jannes wrote: post #40
Brajeshwar wrote: post #31

The documentation is rock solid. I'm interested to know what is powering BlockSuite's documentation?

The docs are open source, so I looked it up. It seems to be built with https://vitepress.dev/

Material + Markdown + mcdocstrings is my current favorite for documenting a code repo. It auto creates nice code docs from doc-strings, and also renders math in those doc-strings. And of course I can add nice looking custom doc pages too.

So I’m curious how this compares with vitePress, which does look really nice.

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#97

Post by eitland »

freedomben wrote: post #85
eitland wrote: post #38

I want to test it as an alternative to LogSeq, but mostly just for fun, because with LogSeq I am for the first time truly content with such a tool.

I'm in the same boat, but I'd be thrilled if logseq introduced a "multiplayer" feature. Though a centralized (browser-based) version of logseq would need to be done first, and the project would need some changes. I tried to do this and didn't get far because the File API it uses relies on the server being on localhost.

For now logseq struggles enough with only my changes :-)

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#98

Post by maxloh »

benabbottnz wrote: post #65
stockhorn wrote: post #51

Can anyone recommend a notion-like editor that is end-to-end encrypted by default and respects my privacy?

You could always check out AnyType: https://anytype.io/ Open-Source, E2E encrypted, offline first, syncs to all your devices via IPFS so no centralized server, etc. No usernames or email addresses either.

Is that really open source?

I can't find it's source code on GitHub.

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#99

Post by benabbottnz »

maxloh wrote: post #98
benabbottnz wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could always check out AnyType: https://anytype.io/ Open-Source, E2E encrypted, offline first, syncs to all your devices via IPFS so no centralized server, etc. No usernames or email addresses either.

Is that really open source? I can't find it's source code on GitHub.

Ah, good point, sorry, it's just released in Public Beta this month, and opening the source code is Coming Soon™

https://blog.anytype.io/our-open-philosophy/

Re: BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support

#100

Post by kjs3 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #17
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #12

Does anyone else feel that the whole entire-canvas-is-editable-by-default approach of Notion and similar tools is an extremely annoying antipattern? I want to be able to open a document in read-only mode. Otherwise, while just navigating through pages or reading content, it's far too easy to accidentally add text to a block by pressing anything on the keyboard, or move things around with an accidental drag of the mou…

First time I had a job that used Confluence as an idle tick i would just tick-untick-tick-untick the checkboxes on documents. I never realised that a) i was actually editing and saving the page, and b) it would send an email to the owner for every single tick/untick edit.

I, too, have earned the hate of a few dev teams not understanding the Confluence view of the world. I have bought numerous beers in hopes of patching things over.
Post reply on HN