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Outline

The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/outline/outline · homepage · TypeScript · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

97/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 93
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 15.5
  • age_days: 3755
  • days_rel: 44
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 33

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

40342 stars · 3519 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

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

application · maturity stable

search-engine web-framework auth markdown documentation self-hosted developer-tools documentation web-development self-hosted self-hosted cross-platform wiki knowledge-base realtime-collaboration team-wiki rich-text-editor slack-integration open-api nodejs docker web-server

7 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
outline/outlinemain97
outline/rich-markdown-editorplugin10

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="outline/outline")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem