I don't know when this Notion thing took off but after recently being forced to use it at $DAY_JOB I don't get the hype. It feels like GDocs but with the directory embedded in the sidebar. Given how many people are rushing to clone it I must clearly be missing something.
Also their implementation of OT or CRDTs is horseshit, it failed miserably when there was ~6-7 of us updating a bulleted list at the same time.
I guess I greatly underestimated what Notion was -- I thought it was mostly a note-taking tool ("Evernote 2.0"), but Appflowy (and a visit to the Notion site again) makes it seem like a project management tool + wiki?
Notion is essentialy JIRA + Confluence + OneNote wrapped up in one (not implying anything about the quality of the products just their competencies)?
[EDIT] - A possibly disturbing/pleasing thought -- is Notion Chat on the horizon?
The fact that their Roadmap is hosted on Trello rather than Appflowy itself says as much about where the project is at as the roadmap itself.
Using rust and flutter for a project like this seems to me, that the authors just searched for a project to learn/use a new skillset?
Although, an interesting stack, this is definitely not boring technology, so the innovation tokens will be used probably with flutter web.
I am enjoying the fact very much that there are more and more visible efforts to make modern, free and (post-)open alternatives to commercial software.
What I am still not understanding is how designers and programmers can make a living when "everybody" uses cheap and decentralized (Yunohost, etc.) cloud instances.
Sorry for the tangent, but is anyone aware of any open source alternative to workflowy (quite a bit different to notion, a lot simpler, usually described as an infinite outliner)?
I really got on with that whilst I was briefly using it, but it being proprietary was a bit of a concern
Why is the project's roadmap is located in Trello and not in the website itself?
Another (largely unheard-of) alternative to Notion is https://www.larksuite.com/ , by ByteDance. It's quite good.
(I hope I didn't just start a political / ideological debate because I mentioned ByteDance.)
Ah this is great! I've been looking for something like Notion but self-hosted.
Outline is another (more mature) option: https://github.com/outline/outline
Why does this sound so much like Workflowy[1]?
If you're looking for a full-fledged alternative to Notion, I'd look at Anytype. It's closed beta for now.
Is Notion the tool with the most copycats? Slite, workflowy, loop, appflowy, outline, focalboard, ...?
It looks like this is self-hosted only as opposed to a more direct alternative to Notion.
Does it allow easy internal linking and does it have a graph like in Obsidian or Roam?
If this has offline mode and fast search, I am in.
Is there a docker image that I can use to run this off my RPi
Why is their roadmap hosted on Trello?
Soon we will need an open source alternative to the open source.
So, there's Focalboard (https://www.focalboard.com/), Outline (https://github.com/outline/outline) and Appflowy.
Has anyone compare these three Notion alternatives, yet? Would love to know, which one comes closest to the features of the original.