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Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by cmoski »

staplers wrote: post #165
slowtrek wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion is not an example of delightful software and it is very much one of the most reproducible apps ever. I don't know how they managed to make it fashionable amongst startups, but it's certainly not because it's an innovative product.

it is very much one of the most reproducible apps ever Would love to move to an alternative that also works in the browser, got any suggestions? I haven't found one that does what Notion does. I genuinely want to get off their AI training grounds but cannot. Your comment reeks of condescension because you are not the target user.

Nuclino?

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by bigiain »

somat wrote: post #329
kellpossible2 wrote: post #277

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please name some open source (or lower priced) alternatives that support: comments on documents, database functionality to a similar level, publishing websites, scripting for properties. I'm very curious!

The unix operating environment. I was going to say git, but really you need the whole environment.

Heh. I remember back in the comp.lang.perl.misc days, where newbies would show up and ask "What's the best IDE for Perl development" and all the longtime greybeards would reply "Unix".

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by j45 »

cyberax wrote: post #349
j45 wrote: post #345

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Notion is good, maybe great for some but small things holding it back from becoming ubiquitous. Does notion work offline-first yet? The only copy of my data should not exist solely in an app’s cloud, and I should not need to manually export anything. Collaboration is nice, still has nothing to do with being offline-first. Docs looks very promising. Congrats to the remnant he launch. Another effort that might be a sub…

> Does notion work offline-first yet? It does via a desktop application.

Must be relatively recently.

Maybe mobile will be important enough and enough users one day to have offline-first support.

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by npodbielski »

sylvinus wrote: post #231

Hey. A few developers from the team are on HN and will be happy to answer any questions here! We also made a small scratchpad you can use to test collaboration features, if it doesn't get too flooded :) https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/a3f0becc-f2b7-45be-a5e5-...

Looks really nice. I looked at the readme on github and selfhost section mentions it is only for testing. Why? What is the difference?

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by [deleted] »

crabmusket wrote: post #360
palata wrote: post #338

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Notion is some kind of Kanban board, isn't it? I think the point of the parent is that such boards were not invented by Notion, and writing a webapp that essentially allows you to move post-its between columns is not exactly innovative. Which is fine, if it works. We don't always need innovation (actually most of the time we don't). Notion just seems to be super popular for just being a webapp of post-its.

Notion has a very flexible data model. We use it mainly for documents, but it also can contain databases, which can be viewed as kanban boards, timelines, etc. https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion It's really nice to have one place to go for all kinds of content, but that content can link within itself, @mention other pieces of content, etc. It can (and does) turn into a huge mess if you let it, of co…

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Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

> Run it locally - Running Docs locally using the methods described below is for testing purposes only. It is based on building Docs using Minio as the S3 storage solution but you can choose any S3 compatible object storage of your choice.

> Prerequisite

> Make sure you have a recent version of Docker and Docker Compose installed on your laptop:

See, this is the issue. If you want adoption, you can't assume that users are familiar with this.

You should start with a dmg for Mac users.

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by hardwaresofton »

remark5396 wrote: post #283

There are already quiet a few softwares that claim to be Notion alternatives or seem to be: - AppFlowy: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy - AFFiNE: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE - SiYuan: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan - Trillium Next: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes - AnyType (only clients are source available): https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts

The future continues to be AGPL

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by rvense »

ryanSrich wrote: post #336
rvense wrote: post #324

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The world would be much better without much of what American venture capital has created over the past twenty years. Ad tech mass surveillance, Uber eating labour protections, "Unicorn" worshpping monopolization of basic utilities.

Would much rather have the hell world American VC has created than the alternative hell world of the euro uber-government.

Can you give me some concrete examples of where Euro uber-government is negatively impacting my life?

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by u_sama »

virdev wrote: post #296

Hey everyone! I'm the PM working with the Docs team. Thanks a lot for the kind words, we're as excited as you to be working on such a cool project. We didn't expect to get posted so soon on HN. We still have a lot to do in terms documentation and reusability. But we'll be working a lot on that next week. We'll keep you posted here. Again thank you everyone!

Hi, thanks for the project and contributing a nice European alternative to Outline. I had a few questions relating to Docs as it seems a nice alternative I want to integrate in our company.

- Is it a project funded directly by the Governments or by the NGI funds?

- Is there an extensibility via plugins or other in the future thought for integrations ?

- Is the ProConnect the only way or can one use a self-hosted OIDC or another IdP to login?

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by cyberpunkdyst »

virdev wrote: post #296

Hey everyone! I'm the PM working with the Docs team. Thanks a lot for the kind words, we're as excited as you to be working on such a cool project. We didn't expect to get posted so soon on HN. We still have a lot to do in terms documentation and reusability. But we'll be working a lot on that next week. We'll keep you posted here. Again thank you everyone!

Did you consider building on top of some existing open source solutions like Docmost, Appflowy, or AFFiNE?
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