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Gollum

Gollum is a wiki system that runs on Git repositories and consists of content text or markup language files. While pages can be edited into directories, visual, PDF and various macro structures are supported within the system. GitHub and GitLab work in line with wiki structures, enabling local editing and imaging.

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Gollum

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gollum · Wiki & Notes / Notion Alternatives

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CONTRIBUTORS229
VERSIONv6.1.0
UPDATED11 mo ago
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Common commercial products in this category: Notion, Confluence, Evernote

What can it do?
  • Using a git-based repository, you manage your documents with a web interface or your favorite text editor.
  • You add advanced content such as Mermaid, PlantUML, BibTeX, and mathematical expressions to wiki pages.
  • You edit by cloning wiki stores on GitHub or GitLab to its local environment.
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend

    “Fun to see this on HN! I originally created Gollum to power GitHub's wiki system and wanted to see if we could use Git to make our wikis more powerful AND more open. I thought it would be cool if you could just clone your GitHub wiki and modify it locally or export it to some…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend

    “I wrote a book for O'Reilly about GitHub and their API and for some reason no one noticed that we added a chapter on Gollum (there isn't an API to access Gollum on github). It was the weakest one of the chapters, IMHO, but, you know, deadlines. O'Reilly was gracious enough to…”

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