Introducing the product design, directions, upcoming version's features

Product Architecture of AFFiNE

AFFiNE is the alternative of Notion, Miro, and Monday, this article introduces what's new, what updates, Improvements, and bug fixes have been released

What's new - AFFiNE 0324

ClickUp is a cloud-based project management and collaboration tool - this article introduces some of the best open-source alternatives you might like to try.

The 7 Best Open-Source Clickup Alternatives in 2023

AFFiNE Downhills launch event recap series. Today we take a look at what Jiachen, the founder and product owner of AFFiNE has to say.

AFFiNE Downhills Recap - Introduction of AFFiNE - the next-gen knowledge-base

Notion is a popular note-taking and collaboration tool that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. However, it's not the only option out there.

Top 10 Notion Alternatives for your own and your team (free and paid competitors)

Evernote vs AFFiNE: The No. 1 notetaking app

Clickup VS AFFiNE: #1 Project Management Platform

The 5 Best Open Source Miro Alternatives in 2023

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform - this article introduces some of the best open-source alternatives you might like to try.

Top 6 Project Management Platforms to Boost Your Productivity: Why AFFiNE Outshines the Rest

How we aim to achieve a local-first, privacy-focussed experience with AFFiNE.

Achieving a Local-First, Privacy-Centric User Experience with AFFiNE's Offline Capabilities

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The 5 Best Open Source Notion Alternatives

Come and say a warm welcome to the AFFiNE team over on our new AFFiNE YouTube channel.

Our first AFFiNE video over on YouTube!

Our first AFFiNE video over on YouTube! Come and say a warm welcome to the AFFiNE team over on our new AFFiNE YouTube channel.

AFFiNE Downhills Launch Event!

Downhills Refresh Release Notes

Using AFFiNE as your own blog. How we did it.

Using AFFiNE as your own blog - technical

Learn how to setup a new workspace and make the most out of the AFFiNE Cloud features.

Getting started with AFFiNE and AFFiNE Cloud

Here's an article to have the most frequently asked questions adequately answered. And a few of them are being fixed in the coming updated version.

FAQ on Downhills

Moving to app.affine.pro

AFFiNE introduces Downhills, the next version of AFFiNE with multi-collaboration support that still prioritises the local-first experience.

Downhills Release - Cloud sync, workspaces, and more Blocks

Why is there pre-loaded content?

What's coming after the Lunar New Year?

Abbey Wood Release Notes

Pre-Alpha and Alpha Local Setup User Guide

Self-host AFFiNE with Docker

New Year Gift - Alpha "Abbey Wood"!

Introducing our new community

What happens after you press A in a collaborative editor?

To Everyone, from Toeverything - AFFiNE, BlockSuite and OctoBase

Who are we and what makes AFFiNE?

Learn Markdown and how you can use it in AFFiNE

Study up, on Markdown

Chatting with you, our community, about AFFiNE Alpha!

AFFiNE Alpha is coming! The first version is for the Markdown Editor!

Together we celebrate the milestone of reaching 10,000 stars over on the AFFiNE GitHub.

Let’s celebrate 10,000+ stars on GitHub together!

Hello, everybody! The long-awaited release of our server-side data storage feature is now here! With the latest version, you can deploy AFFiNE on your own server and your data can be stored on your client locally and on the server-side

A New Docker image with the server side is coming!

AFFiNE is a local-first personal knowledge base, which means you have full control over your data

AFFiNE Local User Guide: Keep Your Data In Your Hands - 2022.09

Thank you very much for your interest in AFFiNE! Some exciting changes are as follows

Mid-September AFFiNE update!

We have been working hard on the live demo to optimize features for our users

New landing page with live demo updates!

AFFiNE is on its way to surpassing 9K stars on Github, having topped Github Trending from its open source launch back at the beginning of August

Feedback of AFFiNE users from all over the globe

Why you should try AFFiNE whiteboard - Edgeless Mode

Thank you very much for your interest in AFFiNE! Some new and exciting changes are as follows

AFFiNE 0823 V0.0.1-alpha.0.5.0 Release Notes

If you’re into productivity tools it’s likely that you have heard and even tried Notion

Why you should try AFFiNE (as a Notion user)

Tags are a useful way to get an idea quickly of what a text is trying to say and its context

Why you should try AFFiNE: Tag-app system

Since the release of our live demo, we’ve received lots of suggestions and there are lots of ideas of improvements we can make

AFFiNE Feature Roadmap 2022.08-2022.09

The AFFiNE live demo is here (with 15 reasons from the team why you should try)

AFFiNE 0812 V0.0.1-alpha.0.4.1 Release Notes

AFFiNE 0810 V0.0.1-alpha.0.4.0 Release Notes

Thank you very much for your attention to AFFiNE! Some exciting changes in AFFiNE are as follows

AFFiNE 0805 V0.0.1-alpha.0.3.4 Release Notes

Discover AFFiNE, the new open-source, privacy-focused, and local-first knowledge base that aims to overcome the limitations of popular tools like Miro and Notion. With AFFiNE, you can seamlessly switch between different views, including whiteboard, Kanban, and page editing modes, and access fully functional blocks anywhere. Plus, with features like data privacy, community-driven extensibility, and native cross-platform support, AFFiNE is a top contender for anyone looking to store, integrate, and manage their workflows in one unified place.

AFFiNE Next-Gen Knowledge Base to Notion and Miro

AFFiNE 0729 V0.0.1-alpha.0.3.2 Release Notes

AFFiNE 0727 V0.0.1-alpha.0.3.1 Release Notes

This article briefly explains cursor-related concepts in editor design, and how they are implemented in AFFiNE

Cursors in Editors and How We Build It in AFFiNE

AFFiNE 0725 V0.0.1-alpha.0.3.0 Release Notes

AFFiNE 0722 V0.0.1-alpha.0.2.2 Release Notes

This article is not intended to teach you how to use enums in Typescript, but rather to discuss the problems of using them in real-world scenarios, based on our experiences and some references

Using Enums in TypeScript

AFFiNE 0720 V0.0.1-alpha.0.2.1 Release Notes

Thank you very much for your attention to AFFiNE！

AFFiNE 0719 V0.0.1-alpha.0.2.0 Release Notes

Copy and Paste are two of the most basic features for a practical editor

Copy and Paste with Customized Clipboard

AFFiNE 0715 V0.0.1-alpha.0.1.1 Release Notes

Design a Non-intrusive Interface And Interaction Based On the UX Principle

AFFiNE 0713 V0.0.1-alpha.0.1.0 Release Notes

When you look around for an editor today, you may have come across the word "block editor"

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Block Editor

When implementing custom data structures, it is best to keep methods such as forEach, find and findLast coherent with Javascript's interface standards

A Recommendation for interface-based programming

As a fortnightly event, UX Open Day plays two roles

A UX Approach Towards Product Development

There are so many editors today that users may find it difficult to select

How AFFiNE Classifies Editors

As an editor supporting multi-user real-time collaboration, AFFiNE needed to address three challenges in terms of data availability