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Athens

The problem with notetaking apps like Evernote or Apple Notes is that once you write a note, after a week you never look at it again. Without any organization, you're stuck praying that search will work for your future self.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Discontinued

Athens is no longer being maintained since November 2022: https://twitter.com/AthensResearch/status/1591138491379122176

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Features

  1.  Block reference
  2.  Bidirectional links
  3.  Knowledge Base
  4.  Graph view
  5.  Outliner
  6.  Backlinks
  7.  Knowledge Management
  8.  Tagging
  9.  Team Collaboration

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
C.A.
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Looks good for notes.

Yifan Yin
0

An open-source project that everyone can contribute. Privately hosted app suitable for professional usage.

tomisme
0

Transparent, values-driven organization building a powerful knowledge tool

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Limezy
2

It's a great open source software, improving very fast and with a reactive and nice community. Short term it may become soon the strongest alternative to Roam Research Long term the team has a very empowering vision for real-time collaboration and decentralized inter-connected knowledge graphs that would be impossible for closed models to achieve. Give it a try !

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I love their community, their user interface and of course, the fact that they're open source.

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What is Athens?

The problem with notetaking apps like Evernote or Apple Notes is that once you write a note, after a week you never look at it again. Without any organization, you're stuck praying that search will work for your future self. On the other hand, creating and following a system requires way too much discipline.

Athens lets you take notes with minimal systems, structure, and organization, freeing you to stay creative and in flow state. Athens does this with [[bidirectional links]], ((block references)), and a graph database.

Athens information

  • Developed by

    US flagAthens Research

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Office & Productivity, Remote Work & Education

GitHub repository

  •  6,298 Stars
  •  396 Forks
  •  318 Open Issues
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Athens, and it has gotten 24 likes

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