Welcome to Docs! The open source document editor where your notes can become knowledge through live collaboration
Chat on Matrix - Documentation - Getting started
Docs is a collaborative text editor designed to address common challenges in knowledge building and sharing.
- π Simple collaborative editing without the formatting complexity of markdown
- π Offline? No problem, keep writing, your edits will get synced when back online
- π Create clean documents with limited but beautiful formatting options and focus on content
- 𧱠Built for productivity (markdown support, many block types, slash commands, keyboard shortcuts).
- β¨ Save time thanks to our AI actions (generate, sum up, correct, translate)
- π€ Collaborate in realtime with your team mates
- π Granular access control to keep your information secure and shared with the right people
- π Professional document exports in multiple formats (.odt, .doc, .pdf) with customizable templates
- π Built-in wiki functionality to transform your team's collaborative work into organized knowledge
ETA 02/2025
- π Easy to install, scalable and secure alternative to Notion, Outline or Confluence
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Prerequisite Make sure you have a recent version of Docker and Docker Compose installed on your laptop:
$ docker -v
Docker version 20.10.2, build 2291f61
$ docker compose -v
docker compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192
β οΈ You may need to run the following commands with sudo but this can be avoided by assigning your user to thedocker
group.
Project bootstrap The easiest way to start working on the project is to use GNU Make:
$ make bootstrap FLUSH_ARGS='--no-input'
This command builds the app
container, installs dependencies, performs database migrations and compile translations. It's a good idea to use this
command each time you are pulling code from the project repository to avoid dependency-releated or migration-releated issues.
Your Docker services should now be up and running π
You can access to the project by going to http://localhost:3000.
You will be prompted to log in, the default credentials are:
username: impress
password: impress
π Note that if you need to run them afterwards, you can use the eponym Make rule:
$ make run-with-frontend
To do so, install the frontend dependencies with the following command:
$ make frontend-install
And run the frontend locally in development mode with the following command:
$ make run-frontend-development
To start all the services, except the frontend container, you can use the following command:
$ make run
Adding content You can create a basic demo site by running:
$ make demo
Finally, you can check all available Make rules using:
$ make help
Django admin You can access the Django admin site at
You first need to create a superuser account:
$ make superuser
We'd love to hear your thoughts and hear about your experiments, so come and say hi on Matrix.
Want to know where the project is headed? πΊοΈ Checkout our roadmap
This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).
While Docs is a public driven initiative our licence choice is an invitation for private sector actors to use, sell and contribute to the project.
This project is intended to be community-driven, so please, do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any question related to our implementation or design decisions.
You can help us with translations on Crowdin.
If you intend to make pull requests see CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.
Directory structure:
docs
βββ bin - executable scripts or binaries that are used for various tasks, such as setup scripts, utility scripts, or custom commands.
βββ crowdin - for crowdin translations, a tool or service that helps manage translations for the project.
βββ docker - Dockerfiles and related configuration files used to build Docker images for the project. These images can be used for development, testing, or production environments.
βββ docs - documentation for the project, including user guides, API documentation, and other helpful resources.
βββ env.d/development - environment-specific configuration files for the development environment. These files might include environment variables, configuration settings, or other setup files needed for development.
βββ gitlint - configuration files for `gitlint`, a tool that enforces commit message guidelines to ensure consistency and quality in commit messages.
βββ playground - experimental or temporary code, where developers can test new features or ideas without affecting the main codebase.
βββ src - main source code directory, containing the core application code, libraries, and modules of the project.
Docs is built on top of Django Rest Framework, Next.js, MinIO, BlockNote.js, HocusPocus and Yjs
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French π«π·π₯ (DINUM) and German π©πͺπ₯¨ governments (ZenDiS).
We are proud sponsors of BlockNotejs and Yjs.
We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands π³π±π§), feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to Docs.