Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.
Sponsor us for additional features/services at https://opencollective.com/athens!
Demo Athens in your browser (no changes are saved): https://athensresearch.github.io/athens
You can use Athens as a local desktop app that saves data to your filesystem or with a self-hosted server.
You can modify Athens's source code. We are also building a plugin system for custom themes, keybindings, and integrations with other data sources.
Athens has a Discord with over 2,200 members. We handle support and feature development on Discord and GitHub. Every Sunday at 11am Pacific, we have a community call. You can help shape Athens — join us!
The problem with notetaking apps like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, or Apple Notes is that once you write a note, you never look at it again. Without any organization, you're stuck praying that search will work for your future self. On the other hand, creating and following a system requires way too much discipline.
Athens lets you take notes without needing systems or structure, letting you stay creative and in flow state. Athens does this with [[bidirectional links]] and ((block references)) that allow you to take notes on anything from anywhere, and then easily connect them together.
If you want to contribute to Athens as a developer or designer, please begin by reading Contributing. This also contains instructions on how to build Athens on your own computer.
Some tips once you've gotten Athens:
- How to use Athens
- How to file a bug report
- How to file a feature request
- If you have trouble with a new version of Athens, download a previous build on our releases page.
Athens is free to use as a local-only desktop app. We are currently building out a hosted software service that will start at $6/month. We have a self-hosted/on-premise option for enterprises that need to self-host, comparable to GitLab or Mattermost. If you are using Athens commercially, please contact us at [email protected].
Please see our Open Collective for more details. We will be migrating to Stripe from OpenColllective.
To learn more about this project, please see:
- Athens Joins Y Combinator
- MVP Update, Funding, and Why I Started Athens
- Vision — individual and collective memexes — computing and the Web as originally promised
- Governance — BD + Core Team + Guardians + Athenians
- Code of Conduct — our values and guidelines, AKA how to be an awesome Athenian
Athens is here today because of our Sponsors and Contributors. Thank you.
