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Posted by satis
Aug 26, 2024 at 01:01 PM
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Notion could work. I have personal reservations about its initial overwhelming nature, its learning curve for anything that isn’t bog-simple, and the open-endedness of the page/dashboard design and endless ways to design and rejigger one’s pages (which tends to become a beastly preoccupation for some users). But it’s a mature product/service, and there’s a lot of instructional video on YouTube. You can make it as simple as you want. Free plan is surprisingly capable, and the $10/month plan offers unlimited file uploads and 30 day page history.
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Atlassian Confluence. Free plan has unlimited pages and spaces, up to 2Gb file storage, and up to 3 whiteboards. They can host via their Confluence Cloud (or your company can self-host via AWS or Azure). Pricing isn’t bad: $60/yr for 250Gb storage, $100/yr for 1000 automations/month, unlimited storage and unlimited whiteboards.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/resources/guides/get-started/overview
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Slite is a simple, secure knowledge base built for teams and collaboration but it can be used single-user. It has a slick web interface, seemingly strong search, and uses end-to-end encryption. There used to be a free plan but now there’s only a free trial before charging $8/user/month that gets you unlimited documents and the ability to add integrations with Zapier, Google Drive and others.
You can try out the document editor here:
https://slite.com/editor
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 26, 2024 at 02:38 PM
Slab (slab.com) is also well worth a look, with considerable power available for free – we currently use it as an extranet.
I’ve recently started experimenting with Acreom (acreom.com), which is more like an individual notebook (but with sharing capabilities if you want them). The free personal version is very powerful, and not dissimilar to Obsidian (although the latter is more evolved). Excellent task management in particular, but the search engine is also good. It’s available online, but also as apps for pretty much all platforms. Big advantage: you can store your “vault” wherever you like (so e.g. if you’re me, in iCloud), but Acreom will sync it with its own vault setup so that it’s then available to apps on any other platform (so e.g. not just Apple). I’ve got the same vaults running on Mac, iOS, iPadOS and Android.
There’s a nice roadmap, too.
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 26, 2024 at 03:50 PM
Craft (craft.do) has a very good web app that is almost 100% consistent with its Mac and Windows versions, as well as its mobile versions. Moving being web and non-web is a seamless experience, IMO.
There is a new feature in beta in Craft to add “objects”—adding a simple set of fields to a document as sort of a “metadata light” option.
Posted by exatty95
Aug 26, 2024 at 04:20 PM
Yes, thanks. I use Craft for personal things (travel, beers, etc.), but I have struggled with its long-standing absence of tags. I’ve been so accustomed to tags, that it’s hard to see working without them. I’m familiar with the workaround of using documents for tags, but it seems like a lot of extra work to maintain that approach.
I like many things about Heptabase, but even it’s owner says that it’s not designed for knowledge management.
As others have noted, Tana’s use of a supertag -and-fields approach makes it quite similar to Tinderbox in its ability to slice and dice information many different ways and with a high degree of granularity. If no alternative emerges from the pack, I may have to suck it up and learn how to use Tana better
Posted by exatty95
Sep 20, 2024 at 09:41 PM
The jury is still out for me. I like a lot about Reflect, but wanted to pass along that it seems to be a huge memory hog on Chrome—using between 850MB-1.05G of RAM. Reflect’s CEO was very responsive to my query about it, saying that there unfortunately is nothing that can be done about that because of the advanced things (such as end-to-end encryption) that they do on the Web client. That’s tough for me to handle on my work computer but maybe not for others.