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Outline - a Notion-like open source app

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    Team wiki, documentation, meeting notes, playbooks, onboarding, work logs, brainstorming, & more…

    https://www.getoutline.com/
    https://github.com/outline/outline

    I first heard about it in this post by @girish who also points out that the developer doesn't seem too keen in getting LDAP support added, but I whilst I'd love LDAP support to be included, lots of existing Cloudron apps don't have it (Discourse, etc - we need a filter in the app store to be able to easily see which other apps) and so I don't think that should be a show stopper (whilst still being a nice to have if at all possible).

    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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    • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

      Team wiki, documentation, meeting notes, playbooks, onboarding, work logs, brainstorming, & more…

      https://www.getoutline.com/
      https://github.com/outline/outline

      I first heard about it in this post by @girish who also points out that the developer doesn't seem too keen in getting LDAP support added, but I whilst I'd love LDAP support to be included, lots of existing Cloudron apps don't have it (Discourse, etc - we need a filter in the app store to be able to easily see which other apps) and so I don't think that should be a show stopper (whilst still being a nice to have if at all possible).

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      @jdaviescoates 3 months ago I took a stab at getting this running locally. Here is a link to my steps that I shared on a reddit post. It was tricky, but I got it running. However, when I tried online, both on a VPS (from DO?) as well as Heroku I ran into an authentication problem with Slack... and it seems like several others who tried this had the same problem. I find it tricky to troubleshoot because googling "slack" and "outline" nets you all kinds of documentation for outlining slack!

      A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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      • scookeS scooke

        @jdaviescoates 3 months ago I took a stab at getting this running locally. Here is a link to my steps that I shared on a reddit post. It was tricky, but I got it running. However, when I tried online, both on a VPS (from DO?) as well as Heroku I ran into an authentication problem with Slack... and it seems like several others who tried this had the same problem. I find it tricky to troubleshoot because googling "slack" and "outline" nets you all kinds of documentation for outlining slack!

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        @scooke I'm guessing lots of people might want the Slack auth to work, personally I'd not be too bothered about that as I want my users to ditch Slack in preference for Rocket.Chat or other self hosted open source solutions 😁

        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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        • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

          @scooke I'm guessing lots of people might want the Slack auth to work, personally I'd not be too bothered about that as I want my users to ditch Slack in preference for Rocket.Chat or other self hosted open source solutions 😁

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          @jdaviescoates Oh, the app is setup to require the Slack auth. Without it you can't login. So, sort of a dealbreaker if you can't get it running self-hosted. I can't find the links at the moment but there were a few people out there who banged their heads against the wall trying to get it to work with no result. I imagine the makers have made it so people will just give in and pay for the hosted version.

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          • scookeS scooke

            @jdaviescoates Oh, the app is setup to require the Slack auth. Without it you can't login. So, sort of a dealbreaker if you can't get it running self-hosted. I can't find the links at the moment but there were a few people out there who banged their heads against the wall trying to get it to work with no result. I imagine the makers have made it so people will just give in and pay for the hosted version.

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            @scooke said in Outline - a Notion-like open source app:

            @jdaviescoates Oh, the app is setup to require the Slack auth. Without it you can't login

            That is a bit shitty 😕🤔

            Seems it also has Google login too

            Screenshot_20200523-193452.png

            But yeah, ideally wouldn't want to use either 🤔

            I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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              Supposedly "open source" but has no native login --- Outline is taking the Mickey!

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              • ? A Former User

                Supposedly "open source" but has no native login --- Outline is taking the Mickey!

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                #7

                @Hillside502 looks like there is movement on this front

                https://github.com/outline/outline/issues/1177#issuecomment-603672773

                I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                  Can’t we just have that LDAP PR included in a Cloudron app package and call it a day? 😇

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                    I think they are integrating passport auth. If that's integrated, LDAP is easy to add.

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                      I ❤ notion but never liked the fact I rely on a third party service for some personal data.

                      +1 for Outline 😄

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                        Posted some similar alternatives here for interest:

                        https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2220/notion-like-foss-app/24?_=1594590712165

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                          bumping this, looks like they're very close to merging passport.js changes: https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/1183

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                            bumping this, looks like they're very close to merging passport.js changes: https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/1183

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                            @ianhyzy Nice, watching this one with interest!

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                              Just checked, don't see any progress on this unless I'm missing something?

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                                Just checked, don't see any progress on this unless I'm missing something?

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                                @marcusquinn The action is in develop branch.

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                                  Any updates on getting Outline on to Cloudron?

                                  I've been playing around with a hosted version, and have to say Outline seems very intuitive and easy to use, compared with some of the alternatives (on Cloudron and otherwise).

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                                    Any updates on getting Outline on to Cloudron?

                                    I've been playing around with a hosted version, and have to say Outline seems very intuitive and easy to use, compared with some of the alternatives (on Cloudron and otherwise).

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                                    @lucidfox said in Outline - a Notion-like open source app:

                                    Any updates on getting Outline on to Cloudron?

                                    I think at present it still only possible to login with Google and Slack.

                                    Apparently this is the current block:
                                    https://github.com/outline/outline/issues/1317

                                    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                                    • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

                                      @lucidfox said in Outline - a Notion-like open source app:

                                      Any updates on getting Outline on to Cloudron?

                                      I think at present it still only possible to login with Google and Slack.

                                      Apparently this is the current block:
                                      https://github.com/outline/outline/issues/1317

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                                      @jdaviescoates mmm... that's a pity. hopefully they'll add other authentication options soon.

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                                        @jdaviescoates mmm... that's a pity. hopefully they'll add other authentication options soon.

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                                        @lucidfox it looks like a relevant pull request adding other authentication methods has now been merged!

                                        https://github.com/outline/outline/pull/1934

                                        Now we just need someone to package it for Cloudron!

                                        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                                          I'd personally love to use this so I don't mind taking a crack at it. Can't until after this weekend though so if anyone else wants to go for it... go nuts.

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