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What's the best Open-Source selfhostable Notion replacement?
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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I built a fully open source multi-user live collaboration notes app, self host with docker, serve at root or a subpath, has an android, windows and Linux client app, plus the usual web UI.
https://github.com/TheFozid/go-notes
Do some parts of go-notes have proprietary sources? I can't find the source for the native Android client in the repo or instructions on how to download and build it from elsewhere.
The android, windows and Linux app use propriety parts, the android app is a web view app built in android studio, the Linux and windows apps are just electron apps. I have all the source code I used to build them on my pc, but I didn't create a repo for them. go-notes is fully open source with the backend in go, the clients are just extremely basic frontends.
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Just gone and checked and all the electron apps source code is in my repo, so the Linux and windows apps you can build yourself from the code. I can upload the android code from android studio if you want as well?
It'd be cool if your app was installable from F-Droid, for which the sources have to be somewhere under a free license. I most likely won't be able to contribute code but would indeed like to look through the sources, and maybe help with translation if the code supports internationalization.
Cool. I'll add the android source code to the repo when I get chance ๐
Very promising! If I understand correctly though, I can't even create a note in offline mode to sync later? That would be a bit of a deal breaker for me personally. I couldn't see much details on e2ee either, but maybe I missed that. Anyway, really well done!
Yeah, it's entirely online only. And no e2ee, just relies on web server encryption like SSL.
Thanks for the extra details! I mean, it does make sense the way you are guiding the use case for the project. It's just not my use case :)
In any case kudos for the job you've done!
Nice, I'll check it out