AFFiNE Self Host Guide
What is AFFiNE?
AFFiNE is a privacy-focused, local-first, open-source, and ready-to-use alternative for Notion & Miro. One hyper-fused platform for wildly creative minds.
Features of AFFiNE
A True Canvas for Blocks in Any Form: Merging Docs and Whiteboard
Many productivity apps boast about being a versatile canvas, but AFFiNE truly delivers. It allows you to place any type of building block on an edgeless canvas—whether it’s rich text, sticky notes, embedded web pages, multi-view databases, linked pages, shapes, or even slides. Yes, you read that right; we’ve got it all covered.
Multimodal AI Partner Ready to Boost Your Work
Need to write a professional report? Transform an outline into a compelling slide deck? Summarize an article into a structured mind map? Organize your job plans and task backlog? Or perhaps you want to draw and code prototype apps and web pages with a single prompt? With AFFiNE AI, your creativity knows no bounds. It’s like having a supercharged assistant ready to elevate your work to new heights.
Local-First & Real-Time Collaboration
We believe in the local-first approach, which means you always own your data on your disk, regardless of the cloud. Plus, AFFiNE supports real-time synchronization and collaboration across web and cross-platform clients. It’s collaboration redefined.
Self-Host & Customize Your Own AFFiNE
You have the freedom to manage, self-host, fork, and build your own version of AFFiNE. A plugin community and third-party blocks are on the horizon. For more details on self-hosting AFFiNE, check out the traction on Blocksuite.
Why Self Host AFFiNE?
As a note taking and knowledge management app, privacy is very important.
Self-Hosting allows you to take full control of your knowledge and notes, you can also easily export and backup those files.
FAQ
AFFiNE vs Notion
Notion is a closed-source software solution that stores your private data on its own cloud servers. With AFFiNE, you have the flexibility to host your data according to your preferences.