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Self-hosted alternatives to Notion

Notion combines documents, databases, and project views in a hosted workspace. The applications here replace its shared documentation use case; their books and pages do not reproduce every database or project workflow.

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Knowledge management

BookStack

A wiki with books, chapters, and pages

1024 MB RAMamd64 / arm64PHP / TypeScriptEasyMITVersion v26.09.2

Alternative to: Notion, Confluence

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Requirements and recipe status of the applications on this page
Application	Minimum RAM	Disk estimate	Database	Installation difficulty	Backup	Recipe verification	License
BookStack	1024 MB RAM	5 GB	MariaDB	Easy	Yes · Restore tested	Fully verifiedCheck is current	MIT

Migration

What changes when you host it yourself

The data stops leaving your network, and so does the responsibility for it: backups, the restore you have actually tested, and the disk it all sits on.

Feature parity is never exact. Read what each recipe states about limitations and the smoke test before planning a migration.

The bill turns into work: updates, certificates and an eye on the release notes. The catalog shows how much of that each recipe asks for.

Guides with these applications

A personal workspace on your serverNotes, a structured wiki, tasks and developer utilities, with an optional local AI interface. Start with one tool and keep account access and backups explicit.