siyuan

As something to compare to, I picked a random repository from what GitHub Explore showed, clicked on the first that looked like a desktop application (https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/releases/tag/v3.5.4), and their Windows binary is currently 166MB for a "privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software". I'd claim 80MB for an entire game engine + editor for said engine is very good.

https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan. Here's an alternative.

A lot of comments on Notion and Obsidian. Does anybody use Siyuan as a Notion alternative? https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

Been trying out [SiYuan](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan) as a local alternative and love it so far. The files are single-line JSONs so not as ideal as Obsidian .md files, but it seems to be trivial to export to various human-friendly formats.

What do you think of Logseq or SiYuan? Logseq[1] is also markdown based but also has a block approach. SiYuan[2] is more similar to Notion, but self-hostable. [1]: https://logseq.com/ [2]: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

I came across this project a while back and adopted it for my personal Personal Knowledge Management System/PKMS. I've bounced around a few PKMS in the past, eventually settling on Obsidian but later moving to Logseq in an effort to avoid relying on closed source tooling. Then recently I discovered this project and I've been beyond impressed. The desktop and mobile apps work very well and to be entirely honest are way more polished than I've come to expect from a FOSS PKMS, it's full featured with more or less everything I could want. It has a built in git-like VCS, it has integrated rendering for Mermaid, Plantuml, etc, and what I've personally found most interesting is it supports representing your notes as structured data that you can query with SQL. My one gripe is the english docs are pretty sparse but otherwise I've had a phenominal

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

Seems the theme going into the new year might just be self hosting things... This and this https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan are both on the front page of HN

I'm patiently waiting for the planned database tables [1] (or the similar plugins to mature). However, even if this is implemented correctly, it is still going to be on a page, not block level (query/attribute/two-way links...). That is why I will probably stick with outliners. Or, I may give Siyuan [2] a second chance. I'm actually referring to this now because they just released 3.0 with those local notion-style DB tables. Think Anytype but with an Obsidian feel, and it works on the block level! [1] https://obsidian.md/roadmap/ [2] https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

This is "Chinese". I personally don't mind, especially if it is open source. But I've seen another China (and electron) based note-taking app vilified for this reason. FYI It is Siyuan [1]. What is unique about it is the logseq-like block-level granularity (ref/embed/query) and (soon) the notion-like databases. [1] https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

SiYuan? https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

While Obsidian is good, I prefer SiYuan Note, which is open source, and has more features. It's like a mix of Notion and Obsidian. https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

SiYuan Note is a fantastic open source alternative to Obsidian and Notion, as it's like a mix of both, but open source and local-first. https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

Try SiYuan Note. It's a free and open source local-first of Notion+ Obsidian. https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan