archivy 0.9.0

Minimalist knowledge base focused on digital preservation and building your second brain.

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Archivy

Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.

Features:

• If you add bookmarks, their webpages contents' will be saved to ensure that you will always have access to it, following the idea of digital preservation.
• Login module that allows you to host the service on a server
• Plugin system to allow people to publish and write extensions to archivy
• CLI that provides a nice backend interface to the app
• Backend API for flexibility and user enhancements
• Everything is a file! For ease of access and editing, all the content is stored in markdown files with yaml front matter.
• Extensible search with Elasticsearch and its Query DSL
• Dark Theme

Upcoming:

• Links between different knowledge base items
• Multi User System.
• Option to compile data to a static site.

Quickstart

Begin by installing Pandoc, the document converter archivy uses.

Install with pip install archivy.

Then run this and enter a password to create a new user:

$ archivy create-admin <username>

Finally, execute archivy run to serve the app. You can open it at https://localhost:5000 and login with the credentials you entered before.

You can then use archivy to create notes, bookmarks and then organize and store information.

See the official docs for information on other installation methods.