Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace
CompanyNotion Labs
Since2016
PricingFreemium
Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.
Confluence is where large organisations put documentation that has to outlive the people who wrote it. Spaces, permissions, page trees, and approval workflows are built for scale and governance rather than for speed.
AFFiNE puts a document editor and an infinite canvas over the same content. A page can be read as a document or arranged spatially as a whiteboard, and edits in one mode are edits in the other.
Storage and document collaboration inside Workspace
CompanyGoogle
Since2012
PricingPaid
Google Drive is storage with an office suite attached, and the suite is the reason most organisations are on it. Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborate in real time well enough that the underlying file storage barely gets thought about.
Outline is a documentation workspace built around search and structure rather than infinite nesting. Collections, a strong editor, and genuinely fast full text search make it usable at the size where most wikis become write-only.
File sync, sharing, and a suite of apps on your own server
Stars30.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Nextcloud started as file sync and grew into a full collaboration suite: documents, calendar, contacts, chat, and an application ecosystem on top of the same account system.
Focalboard is a board and table tool that runs as a desktop application against local files, or as a server for a team. It covers the kanban, table, and calendar views most planning needs without a subscription or an account.
Collaborative wiki with real-time editing and diagrams
Stars15.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Docmost is a documentation workspace with real-time collaborative editing, nested spaces, and diagram support built in rather than embedded from elsewhere.