Self-hosted projects tagged “Documentation”

All-in-one, privacy-focused workspace that merges docs, whiteboards and databases with real-time collaboration and multimodal AI assistance.

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Notion+16

An open source static site generator for building and maintaining documentation and project websites with Markdown/MDX, React, versioning, and i18n.

MITActively maintained

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Read the Docs+13

Open-source alternative to Jira/Linear for tasks, cycles, docs and analytics; offers cloud and self-hosted deployments.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Jira+18

Open-source resume builder for creating, customizing, exporting and publishing resumes with templates, PDF export, public sharing and optional OpenAI assistance.

MITActively maintained

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Resume.io+5

Outline is a fast, collaborative knowledge base for teams, featuring markdown docs, real-time editing, AI-powered search, and Slack integrations.

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Atlassian Confluence+16

A modern, extensible Node.js wiki with Markdown editing, powerful admin tools, multiple auth options, and support for popular SQL databases.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+19

Huly is an open-source all-in-one platform combining project management, team chat, and collaborative documentation as an alternative to tools like Jira, Linear, Slack, and Notion.

EPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Linear+19

MkDocs is a Python-based static documentation site generator that builds searchable HTML docs from Markdown using a simple YAML configuration and themes/plugins.

BSD-2-ClauseSlowing down

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Read the Docs+7

Open-source Confluence/Notion alternative for team wikis and documentation with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, diagrams, and search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+17

BookStack is a simple documentation and wiki platform with a WYSIWYG and optional Markdown editor, full-text search, permissions, and integrated authentication.

MITActively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+16

Open-source collaborative documentation and wiki platform with real-time editing, offline sync, export features and flexible self-hosting options.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+17

Collaborative note-taking, wiki, and documentation platform with real-time editing, access control, and offline support. Built with Django and React/Next.js.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

Apache Answer is a modern open-source Q&A platform for teams to build knowledge bases, forums, and help centers.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+9

Open-source fitness manager with workouts, diet tracking, exercise wiki, progress gallery, and REST API.

Open-Meteo is an open-source weather API providing hourly forecasts, historical weather, air quality and more from national weather models, with optional self-hosting.

DokuWiki is a lightweight, file-based wiki engine with ACL, versioning, and a rich plugin/template ecosystem for documentation and knowledge bases.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+14

Raneto is an open-source, file-based Markdown knowledge base for Node.js with web editing, full-text search, theming, and optional login protection—no database required.

MITActively maintained

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GitBook+13

Open source architecture documentation tool to model and document domains, services, events, and schemas for event-driven and microservice systems.

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Backstage+13

Lightweight, privacy-focused self-hosted Markdown notes app with wikilinks, graph view, tags, templates, search, Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX math, and optional password protection.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+19

ByteStash is a self-hosted snippet manager for creating, editing, and filtering code snippets with secure storage in SQLite and an optional API with Swagger UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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SnippetsLab+2

Documize is a self-hosted knowledge base and documentation platform for internal and external docs, offering spaces, labels, search, and enterprise-friendly authentication.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+17

Gitit is a wiki engine that stores pages in a git-compatible repo, uses Pandoc for markup, and runs on Happstack.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+14

Azimutt is a database exploration and documentation tool with scalable ERDs, an AML schema DSL, schema analysis, data navigation and multi-source connectors.

MITActively maintained

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dbdiagram.io+1

Fusio is an open source API management platform for building, securing, and operating REST APIs, with a web backend, developer portal, and SDK generation.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Amazon API Gateway+5

Extensible Django wiki application with Markdown pages, versioning, permissions, and a pluggable architecture for integrating knowledge bases into Django sites.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+15

Open-source invoicing app built with Laravel & Vue. Provides invoices, estimates, expense tracking, REST API, customizable PDF templates and self-hosting documentation.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Invoice Ninja+9

ZenTao is an open source project management system for agile teams, combining product planning, Scrum/Kanban execution, bug tracking, testing, docs, and reporting.

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Jira Software+19

Open source electronic lab notebook (ELN) for documenting experiments, managing lab inventory, and coordinating equipment booking with granular permissions and auditing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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LabArchives+3

Enterprise-grade open-source wiki platform for knowledge management, intranets and web applications.

LGPL-2.1Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+15

Self-hosted port inventory to document which services use which ports across servers and VMs, helping prevent conflicts and keep infrastructure organized.

MITSlowing down

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Device42+4