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La Suite Docs – collaborative writing platform

La Suite Docs is a collaborative writing platform that helps teams create, organize, and share knowledge.

It combines real-time editing with structured documents, comments, sharing controls, and wiki-style organization.

The software is built for public organizations, companies, and open communities. It supports self-hosting and is designed as an open alternative to tools such as Notion and Google Docs.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Real-time collaborative editing
  • Rich-text and Markdown editing
  • Slash commands and block-based documents
  • Live cursors and presence indicators
  • Comments and sharing controls
  • Granular access permissions
  • Subpages and document hierarchy
  • Searchable knowledge base
  • Offline editing
  • Optional AI writing helpers
  • Import from DOCX and Markdown
  • Export to DOCX, ODT, and PDF
  • Self-host with Docker Compose or Kubernetes

Website: github.com/suitenumerique/docs
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Developer: La Suite numérique
License: MIT License

La Suite Docs demo
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La Suite Docs is written in Python and TypeScript. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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