# Outline

The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

Repository: https://github.com/outline/outline
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/outline
Homepage: https://www.getoutline.com
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: react, wiki, nodejs, mobx, slack, javascript, docker
Last push: 2026-08-26T02:16:44+00:00
Link (homepage): https://www.getoutline.com
Link (site_page): https://www.getoutline.com/integrations
Link (site_page): https://www.getoutline.com/changelog
Link (site_page): https://www.getoutline.com/pricing
Link (site_page): https://www.getoutline.com/about

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3755, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": 15.5, "n_releases_24m": 33}
- 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 40342, forks 3519 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:08.216965+00:00)

## What it is
Outline is an open-source team knowledge base and wiki with a fast, realtime collaborative rich-text editor, markdown support, powerful search, and 20+ integrations including Slack. It can be used as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted via Docker on your own infrastructure.

## Use cases
- set up a team wiki for internal documentation
- self-host a knowledge base on my own server
- collaboratively edit documents in realtime with my team
- search across all team docs and get answers from them
- replace Google Docs or Notion with a structured wiki
- search documentation from Slack with slash commands
- share documents publicly with a link

## When to choose
- your team needs a fast, structured, hierarchical wiki with realtime collaboration
- you want to self-host your knowledge base for data control
- you rely on Slack and want docs searchable from chat
- you need permissions, groups, SSO, and an open API

## When to avoid
- you need offline-first personal note-taking rather than a team wiki
- you want a lightweight static documentation site generator
- you cannot run Node.js/PostgreSQL/Redis infrastructure and don't want the paid cloud plan

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: search-engine, web-framework, auth, markdown, documentation, self-hosted
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: wiki, knowledge-base, realtime-collaboration, team-wiki, rich-text-editor, slack-integration, open-api, nodejs, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- outline/outline (main) score 97
- outline/rich-markdown-editor (plugin) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.216965+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 2026-08-29T16:24:04.622222+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/outline/outline (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.216965+00:00, sha 9badfcb6a431)
  - homepage: https://www.getoutline.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.403768+00:00, sha e8284dce8af3)
  - site_page: https://www.getoutline.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.418198+00:00, sha 0457c20a77a8)
  - site_page: https://www.getoutline.com/compare/google-docs-alternative (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.419796+00:00, sha 7d4df26b5d09)
  - site_page: https://www.getoutline.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.412784+00:00, sha 9a161a7f5479)
  - site_page: https://www.getoutline.com/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.414576+00:00, sha d63356a55946)
  - site_page: https://www.getoutline.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:12.416588+00:00, sha de266ce9bc00)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.