Self-hosted projects tagged “Markdown”

Note Mark is a fast, minimal web-based Markdown notes app with a responsive UI, notebook sharing, attachments, and optional OIDC single sign-on.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Simplenote+9

Nextcloud Notes is a distraction-free note-taking app with Markdown support, favorites, and a REST API. Notes are stored as files in your Nextcloud for easy syncing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Simplenote+15

Self-hostable game distribution platform for sharing DRM-free games, with a store UI, rich metadata management, and flexible authentication including SSO.

Open-source realtime Kanban-style board for teams with an advanced Markdown editor, SSO, import/export, and Docker deployment. Built with React and Sails.js on PostgreSQL.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

Open-source, Markdown-based flat-file CMS for documentation, knowledge bases, manuals and eBook generation with plugins, themes and AI-assisted editing.

MITActively maintained

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Typemill Cloud+13

Go-based flat-file wiki that stores content as Markdown with built-in search, version history, and access control, without an external database.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+19

Open-source, privacy-friendly Disqus alternative with a customizable widget, real-time comments, moderation tools, and notifications for blogs and communities.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Disqus+8

Self-hosted Google Keep–style notes app built with Vite + React and an Express + SQLite API. Supports Markdown, checklists, images, PWA, collaboration and Docker deployment.

MITSlowing down

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Google Keep+10

Lightweight databaseless wiki using Markdown files with WYSIWYG editor, attachments, revisions and sitemap. Runs on PHP/Apache and available via Docker.

MITActively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+12

Next.js web app that reads EPUB, PDF, DOCX, MD and TXT using pluggable TTS providers, offering real-time read-along highlighting, word timestamps, and audiobook export.

MITActively maintained

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Speechify+7

Encrypted diary and journal web app with client-side encryption, markdown editor, file uploads, searchable entries, multi-user accounts and PWA support.

MITActively maintained

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Day One+11

Minimal, accessible PHP blogging engine with Twig themes, modular Feathers and modules for media, tags, comments, and simple caching. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Self-hosted Go web app to share and store text snippets, files, links and a Markdown notepad over a local network with PWA support and configurable expirations.

MITSlowing down

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Apple AirDrop+10

Headless federated microblogging server for single users that implements ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible REST APIs for use with Mastodon clients.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+5

Self-hostable Pastebin alternative for sharing and storing code snippets, files, and rich previews with API, OAuth login, folders, and previews for many formats.

MITActively maintained

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SourceForge+2

QPixel is a Ruby on Rails Q&A platform powering Codidact, supporting multiple communities, categories, Markdown content, voting and activity-based privileges.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+5

Lightweight single-user ActivityPub server using SQLite; supports rich text, Markdown, images, polls, threading, translations and MCP.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+5

Open-source Django LMS for creating courses with YAML/Markdown content, git-backed versioning, sandboxed code questions, automatic grading, calendars and analytics.

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Codio+8

Open-source real-time note-taking and todo app with WYSIWYG editor, JWT auth, role-based access control, and import/export capabilities.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Evernote+9

Self-hosted web app for family wishlists to share gift ideas, avoid duplicate gifts, supports SSO, CouchDB/PouchDB storage and Docker deployment.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Elfster+3

Symfony-based polymorphic CMS using a node system, Twig theming, Doctrine ORM and API-first support for building headless or traditional sites.

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Contentful+18

Minimal Django-based blogging platform focused on writing. Markdown posts, per-user subdomains, RSS/email subscriptions, Hugo/Zola/EPUB exports, image hosting and API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Medium+10

Ghostboard is a minimal real-time text board that syncs text across devices via WebSocket and exposes a REST API and CLI for updates and retrievals.

MITSlowing down

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Pastebin+4

A modern forum, wiki, and community hub for discussions, curated lists, and knowledgebases. Extensible, secure platform built with TypeScript and Go.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+14

Self-hosted, low-footprint microblogging and blog engine in Rust with Markdown posts, file uploads, RSS following, backups, and built-in search.

MITActively maintained

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Micro.blog+8

Lightweight C# service that polls RSS and YouTube feeds and posts updates to Discord via webhooks. Docker-ready, configurable, supports forum channels and embeds.

MITSlowing down

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Blogtrottr+2

Silicon Notes is a lightweight personal knowledge base built with Flask. It offers Markdown editing, syntax highlighting, backlinks, full-text search, page history, and export/import.

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Notion+19

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine offering a lightweight blog platform with plugins, themes, media library, comments, and multi-database support.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Rust-based, gitweb/cgit-like web interface for browsing bare Git repositories with RocksDB indexing, on-demand gitoxide loading, and Docker/Nix support.

WTFPLSlowing down

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SourceForge+6

Self-hosted PHP project management and issue tracking system with multi-project support, milestones, custom fields, built-in Markdown wiki, and REST API.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Atlassian Jira+19