AFFiNE

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About AFFiNE

AFFiNE is a privacy-focused, local-first, open-source workspace platform that merges note-taking, whiteboards, databases, knowledge management, and collaborative planning into a single application. Designed as an alternative to Notion and Miro, AFFiNE provides a hyper-fused editing experience where documents, canvases, and tables coexist seamlessly. It supports real-time collaboration, self-hosting, cross-platform syncing, and AI-powered productivity features such as mind map generation, slide creation, task organization, and brainstorming assistance. Built on modern technologies like React, Electron, Yjs, and BlockSuite, AFFiNE offers extensibility, offline-first functionality, and strong user ownership of data.

Key Features

• Integrated documents, whiteboards, and databases
• Edgeless canvas supporting rich content blocks
• AI-powered writing, brainstorming, and presentation tools
• Local-first architecture with offline support
• Real-time collaboration and synchronization
• Self-hosting support with Docker deployment
• Cross-platform apps for web and desktop
• Embedded web pages, shapes, linked pages, and slides
• Plugin and extension ecosystem in development
• Privacy-focused open-source alternative to Notion and Miro
• Supports CRDT-based collaborative editing with Yjs
• Customizable and forkable under the MIT license

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