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A Knowledge/Note based system is very useful for teams. On my own personal project where I have a team of 8 I tried Gitbook but when I lost a bunch of stuff do
by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
A Knowledge/Note based system is very useful for teams.
On my own personal project where I have a team of 8 I tried Gitbook but when I lost a bunch of stuff do with git pull that override my local changes I really disliked Gitbook.
I convinced my work to get on Confluence so we at least have a knowledge base. I find Confluence like all Atlassian products clunky, slow and cumbersome to navigate.
I really liked Backpack, however its dated and structuralized for an older workflow.
I look at Slite and think, does it handle code blocks well? Is it navigation easy and feels fast? How clunky is the rich text editor?
I personally don't like the look, the open source outline looks more professional. I would have borrow design elements from Discord than Slack.
To me this is a gimmick of piggybacking on the familiarity of slack channels to take something that has already existed (collaborative note and note-like apps). An old tool for a new generation.
Since I've built my open-source HTML5 game in Electron I feel I could whip up my own note-taking app because my feeling is I'm not going to be sold on either Outline or Slite.
I went to connect with my Google Account As soon as Slite asked to view my Contacts, I stopped. Its like asking to see someone's facebook on a first date. No Thank you.
So I go and check Outline, since its open-source but you have to have a slack account and create a Slack App, No Thank you.
I guess I should build my own.
- dahx4Eev 9y agoHave you considered building it based on BoostNote?
- tommoor 9y agoCome and help us add other authentication options to Outline ;) I can promise you it'll be easier than "whipping up your own"
- andrew_wc_brown 9y agoI had already opened up the Outline codebase but then stopped because The copyright is All Rights Reserved. Its not MIT. The issue with All Rights Reserved means lets say I were to put a ton of work into Outline and I want to monetize the work I put in to provide easy hosted solutions. I can't. I'm not saying I want to monetize but I don't know how much effort I will put in and then may regret giving you so much free code.