Docs

Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.

Active Last commit on 2026-11-05 · 1,142 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars: 17k
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Latest release: v6.0.4
2026-10-26
Commits (12 mo): 1.1k
Releases (12 mo): –
License: MIT
Language / platform: K8S

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit on 2026-11-05 · 1,142 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Docs yourself

RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

Estimated monthly server cost

Provider	Plan size	~ USD / month
Vultr	1 GB	$5	Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)	1 GB	$5	Deploy →
DigitalOcean	1 GB	$6	Deploy →

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Docs is an alternative to

Notion Evernote Google Keep Confluence Obsidian Roam Research Microsoft OneNote Apple Notes Bear HackMD GitBook Document360 Microsoft Word

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