# suitenumerique/docs

Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and sub-documents with full ownership of your data. Built to scale with Django and React.

Repository: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/suitenumerique-docs
Homepage: https://docs.la-suite.eu/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: knowledge, wiki, blocknotejs, collaborative, yjs, django, reactjs, g2g, government, documentation, knowledge-base, opensource, realtime-collaboration, mit, mit-license, self-hosted
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:49:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 69
- inputs: {"age_days": 967, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 58}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 16755, forks 619 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:17.161617+00:00)

## What it is
Docs (La Suite Numérique) is an open-source, self-hostable collaborative text editor and knowledge base positioned as an alternative to Notion and Google Docs. It pairs a Django REST backend with a React/BlockNote.js block editor and Yjs-powered real-time collaboration, offering nested sub-documents, granular access control, version history, and docx/markdown import with docx/odt/pdf export.

## Use cases
- self-host a Notion or Google Docs alternative with full data ownership
- collaboratively edit documents in real time with live cursors and comments
- build a team knowledge base with nested pages and hierarchies
- share documents with granular view/comment/edit permissions or public links
- write and organize internal documentation with rich text and markdown
- import docx or markdown files and export to docx, odt, or pdf
- keep team documents on my own infrastructure instead of a SaaS vendor
- collaborative writing platform for government or public organizations

## When to choose
- You want a self-hosted, open-source Notion/Google Docs alternative where you own the data
- Your team needs browser-based real-time co-editing with presence, comments, and sharing
- You need hierarchical documents and sub-pages forming a searchable knowledge base
- You require granular access control including external guests and public share links
- You are a public organization or company that prefers EU-backed, MIT-licensed software

## When to avoid
- You need a static-site documentation generator for code projects (use MkDocs or Docusaurus instead)
- You need native desktop or mobile offline-first editors rather than a web app
- You want Notion-style databases, spreadsheets, or a large plugin marketplace
- You need a lightweight single-user notes app and don't want to run a server

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: editor, self-hosted, documentation, markdown
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: collaborative-editing, real-time-collaboration, notion-alternative, google-docs-alternative, knowledge-base, wiki, rich-text-editor, block-editor, yjs, blocknote, django, react, document-editor, team-collaboration, digital-public-goods, web-server, docker, nodejs

## Member repositories
- suitenumerique/docs (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.161617+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 2026-08-29T17:04:45.519107+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.161617+00:00, sha bb7bbe5090bf)
  - homepage: https://docs.la-suite.eu/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:59.843205+00:00, sha 911cf4080099)
  - site_page: https://demo.docs.la-suite.eu/docs/6d1b6f7f-db33-4673-9277-4bf47b9881ec (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:59.852979+00:00, sha bec4aa4b2a55)
  - site_page: https://docs.la-suite.eu/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:59.854927+00:00, sha 911cf4080099)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.