OJOJFord·Aug 20, 2022Submission
AFFiNE: Privacy-first open-source customisable Notion/Miro alternative
2 points · Open discussiontoeverything
AFFiNE
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AFFiNE
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
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There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
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4 sourcesAFFiNE: Notion Alternative Open Source Knowledge Base
2 points · Open discussionToeverything/AFFiNE: privacy first knowledge base
4 points · Open discussionTo replace Notion&Miro, we build a next-gen open-source knowledge base
Check out at:https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE#stay-up-to-date
We built an open-source, privacy first Notion/Miro alternative! We call it Affine, and we built it with Typescript/React/Rust. We know that there have been so called notion or airtable "open source alternative"s, but we want to make something even more easier to bring planning, sorting of knowledge and creating of content together.
It is not only a block docs, but also a visual learning/collaboration tool merged together. In short, it is a next-gen semantic knowledge base.
We prepared a intro at: https://blog.affine.pro/posts/affine-the-next-gen-knowledge-base-to-notion-and-miro
If you like this open source project, please help us by clicking GitHub star, which is crucial for the future development of AFFiNE. As we have just open-sourced it, it would be greatly appreciat
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