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       title: May 12th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-05-12, 09:03:12 -07:00

     

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       link: https://pearsproject.org

     

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         - search

     

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       [[PeARS]] is “People's Agent for Reciprocated Search”, an open source search system written in Python. Federated server plus local version to run from your desktop.

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       title: May 12th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-05-12, 09:24:50 -07:00

     

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         - localfirst

     

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       link: https://affine.pro

     

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       Just spent a little bit of time with [[AFFiNE]], a local first, open source all-in-one workspace with docs, canvas, and database aka “Notion replacement”.

     

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       I’m looking for something like this to adopt and recommend.

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       link: https://affine.pro

     

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       github: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE

     

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       AFFiNE is a workspace with fully merged docs, whiteboards and databases. Built local first with cloud sync using CRDT for multi-device and multi-user. 

     

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       Open source and self host-able - Postgres and Redis in Docker. 

     

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       Described as a Notion or Miro replacement. 

     

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       ## Licensing

     

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       Similar to Cal.com, MIT-licensed with a backend portion [AFFiNE Enterprise Edition License](https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/backend/server/LICENSE) that will restrict / charge for organization and team features. 

     

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       ## Other Open Source

     

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       The Affine team have extracted several frameworks out of their core application stack. 

     

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       ### Blocksuite

     

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       [BlockSuite](https://blocksuite.io/) is a toolkit for building editors and collaborative applications.

     

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       Based on [[Web Components]] (which is notable because Affine is built in React).

     

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       [toeverything/BlockSuite](https://github.com/toeverything/blocksuite)

     

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       ### OctoBase

     

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       [OctoBase](https://octobase.dev/) an offline-available, scalable, self-contained collaborative database implemented based on CRDTs. It is the core to resolve conflicts between the duplication of data and manage the databases so that real-time collaboration and local-first storage is possible. It supports local storage and serve-side storage.

     

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       A light-weight, scalable, data engine written in Rust.

     

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       Additionally, OctoBase can function as a standalone server database, or it can be integrated directly into your application as an embedded database while remaining fully functional.

     

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       AGPL licensed 

     

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       [toeverything/OctoBase](https://github.com/toeverything/octobase)

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       link: https://pearsproject.org

     

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       PeARS (the People's Agent for Reciprocated Search) is a lightweight, decentralized search engine.

     

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       ## PeARS Federated

     

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       Decentralised PeARS. It allows admins to create mini search engines on topics of their choice, and invite contributors to crowdsource the content of the index. Search can happen on any of the managed PeARS instances. The alpha version of _PeARS Federated_ is very close to being released, so keep an eye on it!

     

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       ## PeARS Lite

     

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       A search engine that you can run locally from your browser. It allows you to 'index' pages (i.e. to produce a computer-readable representation of the pages' content, essential to the search process), and to search pages that you or your friends have indexed. Search happens entirely on your machine, meaning that no one knows what you are searching and when. _PeARS Lite_ is under continuous development and is meant to be integrated with Federated so that the work of data curation can benefit both local and instance users.