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Bookstack as a knowledge organization tool

Bookstack is a wiki software that can be used as a great self-hosted alternative for paid, collaborative note-taking apps, such as Notion. If you are using Notion with a free account, you are probably familiar with its limitations. When you are collaborating with others on it, you are restricted by its block limit, which caps the paragraphs or content you can add. Notion's latest push on AI is another reason on our list to avoid it. And here comes Bookstack, an open source wiki software that can just perfectly replace any other collaborative note taking and thought organizing app. You can install Bookstack on your home server, and use it with multiple accounts for each person you are working with. This guide will explain its simple setting up process.

Bookstack is especially useful for organizing your thoughts, knowledge, tasks, and just about any notes you take—also collaboratively—let's you create so-called books which sits under shelves. Books then have chapters and pages inside. This is the basic structure of Bookstack,

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