athensresearch/athens

Features

• Outliner Note Structures - Captures and organizes thoughts as individual blocks with bidirectional links and block references.
• Collaborative Knowledge Graphs - Provides an open-source collaborative knowledge graph for networked thought and bidirectional linking of notes.
• Knowledge and Collaboration - Enables research teams to jointly capture, link, and build upon shared knowledge in a local-first application.
• Local-First Note Taking - Operates a knowledge graph application locally by default for offline access and user data ownership.
• Bidirectional Linking - Creates bidirectional links between notes, allowing users to navigate and discover connections between ideas.
• Self-Hosted Knowledge Bases - Provides a self-hosted knowledge graph server deployable on personal or team infrastructure.
• RESTful Graph Endpoints - Exposes the knowledge graph over RESTful HTTP endpoints for remote querying, updating, and backup operations.
• Datomic-Inspired Data Models - Uses a Datomic-inspired immutable data model for graph storage and querying with ClojureScript frontend logic.
• Datomic Pull Query Interfaces - Retrieves graph data using Datomic's pull syntax for declarative, nested queries of blocks and attributes.
• Knowledge Graph Querying - Retrieves and traverses knowledge graph data using Datomic's pull syntax for nested queries.
• Knowledge Graph Management - Stores notes and ideas as interconnected nodes in a graph database for mapping complex relationships.
• Block-Referenced Graph Structures - Represents knowledge as individually addressable blocks linked through references to form a directed graph.
• Block-Based Graph Stores - Stores knowledge as individual blocks with unique identifiers linked through references to form a directed graph.
• Collaborative Research Environments - Provides a shared space for teams to capture, connect, and rediscover knowledge collaboratively.
• Outline Management - Captures and organizes thoughts in an outliner format for hierarchical information structuring.
• Self-Hosted Note-Taking Servers - Provides a self-hostable platform for creating and managing interconnected notes with a local or cloud server.
• Web Application Frameworks - Ships a web application built with Clojure and Datomic for persistent graph storage.
• Datomic-Style Immutable Stores - Stores graph data as immutable facts in a Datomic-style database enabling time-travel queries and conflict-free concurrent edits.
• Local-First Architectures - Runs the application server and database locally by default for offline operation and user data ownership.
• Concurrent Graph Editing - Lets multiple users work on the same knowledge graph simultaneously through hosted or self-hosted instances.
• Block Referencing Systems - References individual blocks from any note into another, enabling reuse and composition of knowledge fragments.
• Knowledge Graph HTTP APIs - Exposes the knowledge graph over RESTful HTTP endpoints for client-server communication and remote backup operations.
• ClojureScript Implementations - Renders the entire UI as a ClojureScript SPA compiled to JavaScript with functional reactive state management.
• Docker Compose Deployments - Starts the full application stack, including database and reverse proxy, using a single Docker Compose command.
• Self-Hosted Collaboration Servers - Starts an Athens server locally using Docker Compose to launch the database and HTTP server.
• Remote Server Connections - Joins a remote Athens server by entering its address and password through the database picker interface.
• Self-Hosted Deployments - Runs the knowledge graph application on a local machine or cloud instance using Docker Compose for full data control.
• Knowledge Management - Collaborative knowledge graph tool.

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