Note-taking & knowledge management

Tools for capturing, organizing, linking, and sharing notes, docs, and team knowledge. Ranges from personal wikis to team knowledge bases.

2 paid products3 FOSS alternatives

primary workflows

rich-text editingwiki-style linkingdatabase/table viewsteam collaborationself-hostingoffline accessexport/import

paid products in this category

NotionAll-in-one workspace for docs, wikis, and databases2 alts ObsidianA knowledge base that works on local Markdown files2 alts

FOSS alternatives in this category

AppFlowyNotion-style workspace you can self-hostGNU Affero General Public License v3.0· desktop, self-hosted, hosted-service JoplinOpen-source note-taking and to-do app with synchronizationGNU Affero General Public License v3.0· desktop, desktop, self-hosted LogseqLocal-first, outliner-style knowledge graphGNU Affero General Public License v3.0· desktop, self-hosted, web-deployable

neighbor categories

project-management design-collaboration