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Outline — open source alternative
Beautiful team knowledge base with real-time collaboration.
Strengths
- Clean UI that competes with Notion on polish.
- Slack, Google, SAML logins supported.
- Real-time collaborative editing.
Weaknesses
- BSL source-available, not strictly open source — check your policy.
- Self-host ops (Postgres, Redis, S3) aren't one-click.
- Fewer templates than Notion for non-engineering teams.
Ad slot — OSS middle
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