# athensresearch/athens

Athens is no longer maintainted. Athens was an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph, backed by YC W21

Repository: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/athens
Homepage: https://athensresearch.github.io/athens
Language: Clojure
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: memex, knowledge-management, knowledge-graph, tools-for-thought, knowledge-base, notetaking, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2023-02-03T12:32:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2347, "days_push": 1307, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6301, forks 397 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.551993+00:00)

## What it is
Athens was an open-source desktop and web application for collaborative knowledge management built on a graph database, similar to Roam Research. It allowed teams to capture, link, and synthesize knowledge as an interconnected graph of notes.

## Use cases
- take linked notes in a knowledge graph
- build a personal memex of interconnected ideas
- collaboratively map team knowledge
- replace Roam Research with an open-source outliner
- organize research notes with bidirectional links

## When to choose
- you already use Athens and want to understand its features
- you want to fork or study an open-source Roam-like tool

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, actively developed note-taking app
- you are starting a new knowledge base today
- you need official support or data migration guarantees

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, gui
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: knowledge-graph, note-taking, outliner, roam-alternative, discontinued, knowledge-management, desktop, web

## Member repositories
- athensresearch/athens (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.551993+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:15.474908+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.551993+00:00, sha 05d71111d558)
  - homepage: https://athensresearch.github.io/athens (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:45.571151+00:00, sha 393616a3539d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.