Latest Update:
Greetings from AFFiNE!
The live demo of AFFiNE has officially launched, as promised, on August 12, 2022. You can directly access the demo here: https://affine.pro/
Some things to consider about the demo:
- Designed and optimized for the chromium-based browser (such as Chrome or Edge) – some functions such as local file storage may not work correctly in other browsers
- AFFiNE is still in development and the product is not production ready. Please do not store any important information or data as there may be breaking changes moving forward.
- We look forward to sharing a more detailed roadmap with you next week. You’ll find more about our intended direction and some of the new upcoming features we have planned – so stay tuned.
The live demo allows us to show off several key features:
- Paper Mode - a space for you to freely explore and utilize the product, and we believe it offers a better experience than Notion – we hope you do too.
- Edgeless Mode – a space that gives you the freedom to draw and create through a blank canvas
- Kanban View – which is feature-rich and allows custom grouping
- Seamless switching between Paper Mode and Edgeless Mode – this is one of our proudest features of this release – and something we see that really sets us apart from a lot of other products.
If you want to continue to learn more about AFFiNE, we recommend you refer to an earlier article of ours. Here you can learn more about the product and some of its features: https://blog.affine.pro/posts/affine-the-next-gen-knowledge-base-to-notion-and-miro
And for this live demo release, to help you better understand and use AFFiNE, we interviewed some of the engineers and designers from the AFFiNE Team. Here is what they had to say, please view our medium(https://medium.com/@affineworkos/the-affine-live-demo-is-here-with-15-reasons-from-the-team-why-you-should-try-fa1d74a1d2d8) to know more details about it✨
Hello, we built an open-source privacy first Notion/Miro alternative, we call it r/Affine, and we built it with Typescript/React/Rust. Check it out on GitHub(https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE).It is not only a block docs, but also a visual learning/collaboration tool merged together. In short, it is a next-gen semantic knowledge base that put your planning, sorting, and creating of content together.As we have just open-sourced it, it would be greatly appreciated if you could provide us with some review or feedback.One of our open-source contributors just made Affine available on a macOS desktop! If you want to have a peek at the current affine demo now, please check it out at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client
AFFiNE will release a demo version available online around August 12th, so please focus on our Github updates（https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE） \~ we will also update our news in real-time on all channels.If there is anything that we can help with making AFFiNE more available to others, please let us know!
Where is Miro here, I see nothing related to whiteboarding, shapes, lines, etc.
Hihi, very good question! Our document mode can be switched seamlessly with whiteboard mode, and the switch between Kanban view and other views is much smoother.
On top of that, we want to provide a more powerful editing experience.
All the more atomic-level elements in AFFiNE can be referenced and reused more smoothly, while quickly helping you to structure the brainstorming process.
AFFiNE helps you to finish editing the scattered elements of brainstorming and then quickly integrate them into documents and Kanban boards to help you further execute and implement the organization and management of your personal knowledge base.
We also prepared an article to introduce more details about AFFiNE: https://medium.com/@affineworkos/affine-the-next-gen-knowledge-base-to-notion-and-miro-403f0afd9fba
Here is our documentation wiki: https://affine.gitbook.io/affine/ (if you want to be an AFFiNE contributor, here is the guide you need)
Real-time QA is here: https://discord.gg/yz6tGVsf5p
Here is our dockerfile: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/master/.github/deployment/Dockerfile-lisa
One of our open-source contributors just made Affine available on a macOS desktop! If you want to have a peek at the current affine demo now, please check it out at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client
AFFiNE will release a demo version available online around August 12th, so please focus on our Github updates（https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE） \~ we will also update our news in real-time on all channels.
Please feel free to submit any pull request/issue/discussion on our github project, and if there is any issue in the future, just contact us directly.
You repeated the PR copy verbatim. And you did not answer my question, where is Miro with shapes and lines here. They started with that, the kanban boards is a recent addition.
Your Miro association does not hold water.
If you use our whiteboard feature, you will see that our whiteboard has shapes and lines, and supports different strokes.
Besides that, the main features of AFFiNE are summarized as follows.
- Transformable
- Every block can be transformed equally well as a database
- e.g. you can now set up a to-do with MarkDown in text view and edit it in kanban view.
- Every doc can be turned into a whiteboard
- An always good-to-read, structured docs-form page is the best for your notes, but a boundless doodle surface is better for collaboration and creativity.
- Atomic
- The basic element of affine are blocks, not pages.
- Blocks can be directly reuse and synced between pages.
- Pages and blocks are searched and organized on the basis of connected graphs, not tree-like paths.
- Dual-link and semantic search are fully supported.
- Collaborative and privacy-first
- Data is always stored locally by default
- CRDTs are applied so that peer-to-peer collaboration is possible.
We will soon support PPT presentation mode like Miro. We would also love to have your continued feedback and suggestions on how to use the AFFiNE whiteboard features. Please feel free to submit any pull request/issue/discussion on our github project, and if there is any issue in the future, just contact us directly. Have a nice day.
AFFiNE live demo has been released, please click and have a try: https://affine.pro (welcome to submit any issue on our GitHub: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE )
AFFiNE live demo has been released, please click and have a try: https://affine.pro (welcome to submit any issue on our GitHub: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE )