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Notes without the bloat. Or the bill.

Pages, boards and a live map of how it all connects. Real-time collaboration, Claude Code built in. Self-host it free, or let us run it.

One command. One folder. Your data. Unlimited members.
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Pages link to everything.
New in 1.4

Everything your team needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Pages, boards and a map, with live collaboration and Claude Code built in.

01 · Pages and boards

Write in blocks. Plan on boards.

A modern block editor with slash commands, callouts, toggles, to-dos, tables, code blocks and images. Drag any block to reorder it. Kanban boards sit right next to your pages, and every column and card is a real page you can open, link and write in.

  • Type / to insert any block
  • Drag and drop blocks and cards
  • Columns and cards are real pages, not stickers
02 · Live collaboration

See who is where, as it happens.

Teammates' text cursors and mouse pointers show up on the page in real time, so nobody edits the same sentence twice. Leave comments with @mentions, catch up in your inbox, and check what changed in each page's changelog or step back through its version history.

  • Live cursors and mouse pointers, with names
  • Comments with @mentions, plus an inbox
  • Per-page changelog and version history
03 · Map

Every page, connected.

An Obsidian-style map shows how every page in the workspace links together. Zoom, pan, search for a page or filter by tag. The workspace Overview adds stats and recent activity, so you can see what the team touched this week.

  • Zoomable, pannable, live
  • Search and tag filters
  • Workspace Overview with stats and recent activity
04 · Claude Code built in

Hand Claude the keys. Only the ones you choose.

One command connects Claude Code to a workspace over MCP. Claude can read, search, create, edit and move pages and board cards. It acts as the user behind the token, so it only sees and changes what that user is allowed to.

  • Read, search, create, edit and move pages and cards
  • Respects each user's permissions, page by page
  • Get your token from Settings > Claude Code in the workspace
terminal
claude mcp add --transport http notebit https://your-notebit.example/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
05 · Permissions

Permissions you can read at a glance.

A role-by-action grid shows exactly what Read, Write and Manage members can do, and every cell is a toggle. Set access per page, lock a page once it is final, or publish a page to the web with one switch.

  • Role-by-action grid, each cell toggleable
  • Per-page access and locked pages
  • Publish pages to the web

Six themes

Five dark, one light. Pick per person, not per workspace.

Works on phones

The whole workspace, boards included, on a small screen.

⌘K search and favorites

Jump to any page from the keyboard. Pin the ones you live in.

Links and backlinks

Link any page inline. Every page lists what links back to it.

Markdown in and out

Import a folder of Markdown. Export any page back out as Markdown.

Full workspace backups

One export carries the whole workspace, boards and all, anywhere.

Self-host

Up and running in a minute

One line. No Docker needed. Free, with no limits on members or pages.

curl -fsSL https://notebit.org/install.sh | bash

Installs, starts and updates NoteBit. Your notes stay in one folder you own. Docker fans: it is still an option. Star it on GitHub.

One lineto install and update
No Dockera single service
One SQLite fileall your data
Unlimited membersno seat tax
AGPL-3.0open source

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Pricing

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