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Outline

Team knowledge base and wiki with realtime collaboration, Markdown compatibility, and self-hosting documentation

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Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
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About Outline

Outline is a fast, collaborative knowledge base and wiki for teams, built with React and Node.js. It gives a team one organized home for documentation instead of scattered docs, with a blazing-fast editor that loads documents and runs search in milliseconds.

The Markdown editor supports slash commands and interactive embeds, and teammates write together in realtime with comments and threads. Workspace-wide search answers questions about your documents with AI, and read and write permissions, user groups, guest users, and public links control who sees what.

Outline connects to Slack, Figma, Loom, and 20-plus other tools through built-in integrations and an open API, and the interface is translated into 20 languages with RTL support. The same codebase powers the hosted service at getoutline.com and self-managed installs, so teams can move to their own servers. Outline is licensed under BSL 1.1.

Key features

  • Fast Markdown editor with slash commands and embeds
  • Realtime collaboration with comments and threads
  • Workspace search with AI question answering
  • Permissions, user groups, and public sharing links
  • Slack, Figma, Loom, and 20+ integrations plus an API

Details

First released
2016
Self-hosting
Your own server, Docker
Hosted option
getoutline.com
Integrations
Slack, Figma, Loom, 20+, open API
Languages
20 languages, RTL support
License
BSL 1.1