There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. - GitHub - toeverything/AFFiNE: There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
I guess this is popular? That’s a pretty significant number of stars.
Anyway, don’t really like the big AI focus they seem to have. It also wasn’t immediately obvious to me if the AI even works properly when self-hosted. It sounds like you still need to login for the AI to function.
The DB is apparently written in Rust, so that’s neat at least.
Call me old school, but I prefer my foss to be linear.
I like’em projective, but that’s just me.
Be aware, its not completely FOSS: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/backend/server/LICENSE
From a very quick glanceit looks similar to https://logseq.com/, which I’ve been using for some time now and absolutely enjoy.
The querying stuf and “referenced by” box on pages is awesome, and I like the journalling format.
Once I solved sync troubles (with a git repo), it was great.




