Outline – An Open Source Team Knowledgebase

Good old DokuWiki[1] has few dependencies (not even a database), is super easy to set up without Docker and comes with a zillion useful plugins. Its wiki markup format is supported both for import and export by pandoc.<p>Just saying...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dokuwiki.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dokuwiki.org&#x2F;</a>

Mandatory Google or <i>shudders</i> Slack account for registration without any other option? Why?

If anyone is after a different approach, or alternative requirements, I&#x27;ve been working on BookStack [1] for the last few years in my free time.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bookstackapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bookstackapp.com&#x2F;</a>

The self-hosted requirements are pretty hefty.<p>Node.js &gt;= 12 Postgres &gt;=9.5 Redis &gt;= 4 AWS S3 storage bucket for media and other attachments Slack or Google developer application for authentication<p>Requiring Postgres and Redis for a documentation site seems overkill. Also not a fan of requiring S3, an option to save the media to the local disk would be nice. This seems somewhat over-engineered for a knowledgebase, especially when some of the competition has no runtime requirements other than a webserver (DokuWiki, statically generated Gatsby&#x2F;Hugo sites). And I can still get Slack notifications on edit from MR notifications.

Outline looks clean and very similar to Notion. We use Notion in our company. Wondering if Outline could be a cheaper alternative (and with an API).

I&#x27;d recommend giving &quot;DynaList&quot; a look as well. Use it daily.