Pollens
Write, Draw and Plan All at Once
A privacy-focused, local-first, open-source, and ready-to-use alternative for Notion & Miro.
One hyper-fused platform for wildly creative minds.
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Pollens is an open-source, all-in-one workspace and an operating system for all the building blocks that assemble your knowledge base and much more -- wiki, knowledge management, presentation and digital assets. It's a better alternative to Notion and Miro.
A true canvas for blocks in any form. Docs and whiteboard are now fully merged.
- Many editor apps claim to be a canvas for productivity, but Pollens is one of the very few which allows you to put any building block on an edgeless canvas -- rich text, sticky notes, any embedded web pages, multi-view databases, linked pages, shapes and even slides. We have it all.
Multimodal AI partner ready to kick in any work
- Write up professional work report? Turn an outline into expressive and presentable slides? Summary an article into a well-structured mindmap? Sorting your job plan and backlog for tasks? Or... draw and code prototype apps and web pages directly all with one prompt? With you, Pollens AI pushes your creativity to the edge of your imagination.
Local-first & Real-time collaborative
- We love the idea of local-first that you always own your data on your disk, in spite of the cloud. Furthermore, Pollens supports real-time sync and collaborations on web and cross-platform clients.
Self-host & Shape your own Pollens
- You have the freedom to manage, self-host, fork and build your own Pollens. Plugin community and third-party blocks are coming soon. More tractions on Blocksuite.
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”. A lot of pioneers have inspired us along the way, e.g.:
- Quip & Notion with their great concept of “everything is a block”
- Trello with their Kanban
- Airtable & Miro with their no-code programable datasheets
- Miro & Whimiscal with their edgeless visual whiteboard
- Remote & Capacities with their object-based tag system
There is a large overlap of their atomic “building blocks” between these apps. They are not open source, nor do they have a plugin system like Vscode for contributors to customize. We want to have something that contains all the features we love and also goes one step even further.
Thanks for checking us out, we appreciate your interest and sincerely hope that Pollens resonates with you! 🎵 Checking pollens.app for more details ions.
| Bug Reports | Feature Requests | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Create a bug report | Submit a feature request | Send us an Email |
| Something isn't working as expected | An idea for a new feature, or improvements | contact@pollens.app |
Calling all developers, testers, tech writers and more! Contributions of all types are more than welcome, you can read more in docs/types-of-contributions.md. If you are interested in contributing code, read our docs/CONTRIBUTING.md and feel free to check out our GitHub issues to get stuck in to show us what you’re made of.
Before you start contributing, please make sure you have read and accepted our Contributor License Agreement. To indicate your agreement, simply edit this file and submit a pull request.
For bug reports, feature requests and other suggestions you can also create a new issue and choose the most appropriate template for your feedback.
If you have questions, you are welcome to contact us. One of the best places to get more info and learn more is in the Pollens where you can engage with other like-minded individuals.
| Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| @Pollens/component | Pollens Component Resources |  |
| @PollensAI/theme | Pollens theme |  |
We would like to express our gratitude to all the individuals who have already contributed to Pollens! If you have any Pollens-related project, documentation, tool or template, please feel free to contribute it by submitting a pull request to our curated list on GitHub: awesome-Pollens.
Begin with Docker to deploy your own feature-rich, unrestricted version of Pollens. Our team is diligently updating to the latest version. For more information on how to self-host Pollens, please refer to our documentation.
Some amazing companies, including Pollens, are looking for developers! Are you interested in joining Pollens or its partners? Check out our Discord channel for some of the latest jobs available.
For questions and suggestions, please use this email [contact@pollens.app]
From the GitHub repo main page, click the green "Code" button and select "Create codespace on master". This will open a new Codespace with the (supposedly auto-forked Pollens repo cloned, built, and ready to go.
See BUILDING.md for instructions on how to build Pollens from source code.
We welcome contributions from everyone. See docs/contributing/tutorial.md for details.
Thanks to Chromatic for providing the visual testing platform that helps us review UI changes and catch visual regressions.
See LICENSE for details.