Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base

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  • Outline

    The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  • Just be careful that while it is self-hostable and the source is available, it is not open source [1,2]. If this is something important for your consideration before using it.

    [1] https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE

    [2] https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-...

  • Keycloak

    Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services

  • Outline only uses SSO for authentication. The solution when self hosting is use a private keycloak server [1]. This allows you to do email based auth.

    [1] https://www.keycloak.org/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • silicon

    Silicon Notes, a web-based personal knowledge base with few frills (by cu)

  • It's nowhere near as featureful as Outline, but I wrote my own Markdown knowledge base thingy in Python. It is web-based and geared toward single-user (or _very_ small team use) but it's Apache licensed and has no commercial tie-ins. Super easy to deploy as long as you know how to layer some rudimentary authentication on top of it.

    https://github.com/cu/silicon

  • mdBook

    Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

  • My org has used mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ (That link is itself a rendered mdBook, so that'll give you an idea of the feature set.)

    (While it's definitely a Rust "thing", if you just have a set of .md files, all you need is a "SUMMARY.md" (which contains the ToC) and a small config file; i.e., you don't have to have any Rust code to use it, and it works fine without. We document a large, mostly non-Rust codebase with it.)

  • Trilium Notes

    Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

  • Then you come across Trilium and drop the mic

    [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

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