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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Appflowy just rolls off the tonguey.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you use it offline or does it fall apart like notion does? I switched to Obsidian after that bit me a while back.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

You didn’t know how to use notion by refraining to hand your personal private data to big corps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I went down the rabbit hole of an open source replacement for notion earlier today randomly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Obsidian is very solid and has a huge addon eco system to change it most ways you might thino of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

and it's not open source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I believe Logseq is the closest thing there is to an open source alternative to Obsidian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can recommend Notesnook. Relatively cheap premium plan, everything is open source, with clients available on F-Droid and Flatpak and end-to-end encryption.

For server code they already published the source. Option to use self-hosted servers is on the roadmap: https://notesnook.com/roadmap/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

AnyType is lying about open source, it is just "source available", as their licence call it: https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md You can see the source, but the licence restrict you from any commercial use, even if you want to use AnyType in a company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum.

AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from a slew of renowned founders, including Matt Mullenweg (Automattic); Steve Chen (YouTube); Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub); Bob Young (Red Hat) and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera).

Helping the workforce be more efficient is big business, evidenced by the likes of Notion hitting a lofty $10 billion valuation off the back of remote work-driven demand for collaboration software.

However, AppFlowy’s promise is all about control and customizability, allowing companies to tailor their workspace with modular building blocks that can be fine-tuned for specific use cases.

“Most proprietary collaboration workplace tools share a major limitation — their customers find it too hard or too expensive to have 100% control of their data,” co-founder and CEO Annie Anqi Wang said in a blog post.

“We plan to adopt a freemium model for AppFlowy Cloud, which means that certain premium features will not be included in the free tier,” Wang said.


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