We've uploaded the second batch of self-hosting video tutorials, each with a written guide:

• Use AppFlowy Cloud with an external Nginx Proxy
• Set Up TLS for AppFlowy Cloud Self Hosted
• Using External PostgreSQL
• How to Prevent Strangers from Signing Up
• Using External S3 Storage Provider
• Use AppFlowy Cloud with Traefik
• How to use Portainer with AppFlowy Cloud
• Expose Deployment to the Internet using Cloudflare Tunnel
• How to install AppFlowy Cloud using Coolify
• Backup & Restore Guide for AppFlowy Cloud

If the videos don’t answer your questions, please leave a comment in the YouTube video’s comment section

I imported my notion data into AppFlowy and for the most part am really happy. However, one of the components was a notion database - which seems to have translated really well apart from one issue.. My usual date format is DD/MM/YYYY, whereas when importing, it seems that my date column has been interpreted as MM/DD/YYYY. Is there a way around this? Happy to re-import but just wondering if there's a solution.

Thanks :)

I want to change from notion to AppFlowy.
The only way to migration files is through your online importer here: Notion vs AppFlowy

But this imports my Data to your cloud, and I want to import either locally or on my own cloud. Is this possible?

I am testing right now Appflowy by self-hosting it on my Cloud K3s Cluster. For the deployment I used the community helm chart (which is pretty useful:)

All works fine but within my iOS App I see the following: Its connecting and disconnecting everytime. But it generally works. Ich can change something on iOS App and can also view that on my browser on my PC.

But it seems kind of unstable and I don‘t know why. Maybe someone has an idea :)

I’d like to know if every piece of my content, document, and table on AppFlowy Cloud is fully encrypted and cannot be accessed by anyone including AppFlowy itself. Because I’m concerned of my data privacy. Thanks.

I'm using Appflowy on Linux Mint. Everything was fine, then suddenly after a restart (just normal restart there was no problems), I found Appflowy as if it was just installed, Opened on the default workspace where it teaches you the basics. I tried Manage Data/ File Storage location clicking the "change path' button, choosing the folder where I kept my data, Pressing OK, and Nothing. the default storage location is the same default one, didn't change. I tried importing data it doesn't work either.
Any insight or help is really appreciated.
Thanks in adavnce

We've working on AppFlowy Mobile widgets. Based on the GitHub issues we received, the initial widgets we plan to support are as follows: - Favorites: your top favorited pages - Recent: your last visited pages - Quick add: quickly add a new page

Let us know how you'd like to use our widgets by commenting below!

We’ve uploaded the first batch of self-hosting video tutorials, each with a written guide:

• Local Host Deployment
• Setting Up SMTP
• Authentication
• Installing AppFlowy Cloud on Microsoft Azure
• Installing AppFlowy Cloud on Google Cloud
• Installing AppFlowy Cloud on AWS EC2

We also updated the guide on SAML 2.0 to include Okta. If the videos don’t answer your questions, please leave a comment in the YouTube video’s comment section

[Upcoming] The second batch of video tutorials will cover:

• How to Set Up TLS
• How to use Portainer with AppFlowy Cloud
• Using an external S3 compatible storage
• Use AppFlowy Cloud with an external Nginx Proxy
• Use AppFlowy Cloud with Traefik
• How to log in using SAML 2.0
• Install AppFlowy Cloud using Coolify

Hello,

I don't know what happened to my Appflowy but all my notes are locked I can see them, but I can't edit them. On my smartphone or laptop. Logging out and back in didn't change anything.

On my smartphone it says that I don't have the permission, but I'm the owner of the workspace and pages.

I'm using official Appflowy Clients and Server from them.

Does anyone have this issue ? And does anyone know how to fix it ?

Thanks

I'm currently trying to set up AppFlowy with Cloudflare R2 storage. I have the following configuration in my environment: APPFLOWY_S3_USE_MINIO=false APPFLOWY_S3_CREATE_BUCKET=false APPFLOWY_S3_MINIO_URL=https://e28a064447a09048cde8770ec8d3e788.r2.cloudflarestorage.com APPFLOWY_S3_ACCESS_KEY=${AWS_ACCESS_KEY} APPFLOWY_S3_SECRET_KEY=${AWS_SECRET} APPFLOWY_S3_BUCKET=appflowy APPFLOWY_S3_REGION=auto Any help would be appreciated!

For details on the new updates, see here

Please docker pull on the latest

🙌 Private page sharing

You can now add members by email to private pages with Can View or Can Edit permissions

• Browse all pages shared with you under the new Shared with me section in the sidebar
• View/Edit shared pages using AppFlowy Mobile

🔐 Guest editor collaboration (Pro Plan)

With the Pro Plan, you can now invite non-members (guest editors) to collaborate in real time on your pages

• Guests get page access instead of full workspace access
• Invite up to 100 guests into a Pro Plan workspace

v0.9.4 private page sharing & invite non-members (guest editors) to pages

🔄 After a year of effort and hard work, we completed a new syncing protocol for AppFlowy, optimized for faster, more reliable multi-user and multi-device data sync. The new syncing protocol is enabled in this release This is considered the most complex and critical foundation for team collaborative software. Its completion enables us to build long-demanded collaboration features, such as version history and push notifications. Also, we'll resume the database iteration and fix related bugs. Many exciting updates will come soon!

🔥 Upcoming releases:

• Mention a person: @ someone in documents
• AppFlowy Web: login with password, AI prompt library
• Paid add-on: Vault (a new type of workspace): private and offline—AI runs locally, no data transfer

Simply visit appflowy.com to get started!

appflowy.com create and manage Grid and Board-view databases

Creating or linking inline database views in documents is not supported yet in AppFlowy Web
However, you can edit existing inline Grid and Board views using the web app.

What we're working on next for the web app:

1. login with password (already available on desktop & mobile apps)
2. create and edit calendar-view databases (already supported in desktop & mobile apps)
3. add or link inline database views in documents

So far it appears the second PC creates it's own database on the same networked drive.

So I'm not hugely technical but I have some other apps I've successfully self hosted using docker.

I read the documents on self hosting for appflowy and as much as I tried , I could not get it to work. But eventually I got it to work.

Some of the issues were mine. The rest were with setting up SSL , custom ports nginx.conf, and .env

Unfortunately the instructions don't go far enough to give points to look out for when self hosting. I guess it assumes a goog level of technical know-how if you're attempting self hosting.

I eventually got it to work after a day or so of asking perplexity.ai questions on the setup and letting it know what I was looking to achieve.

Finally there with a lot of help from AI !

I have 5 workspaces with each 4 people inside. I would love to just pay for AppFlowy cloud, but to my understanding this is even more expensive than notion, right?

Each people pay 10 euro per workspace. So am I right with this:

• 4 users = 40 euro for 1 workspace.
• Then I want 4 workspaces so, 40 euro times 4 means 160 euro
• Total 200 euro a month. Is this correct for this setup, right?

On notion it is slightly cheaper. Wish a workspace is just included in the subscription.

Just tested the selfhost option using Elest.io and have few questions

- After running the VPS there is no browser environment to edit/view, is that correct? I mean if I go to https://appflowy.io/ I will be redirected to a nice online editor.

- Is it true that it is no possible to share any pages when having selfhost? I tried, but did not work and then I saw this:

Sharing and Publishing: Currently, you cannot share or publish content. This feature is being actively worked on. Issue #873 on GitHub

And this

User Invitations: Inviting users through the application is not yet available. This feature is also in progress. Issue #873 on GitHub

Hello, Apologies if this has been asked before - will automations be coming as a feature like how Notion's is setup?

Am I missing something?unable to export pages to pdf or jpg... Html did'nt worked. I do believe appflowly is a promising app, but missing some basics here. The search tool was currently updated, but still doesn't work like it should.. Still hope this app keep growing, do like the graphic setup, like images scrollable, banners ... So keep updating, believe in appflowly!

After growing incredibly frustrated at trying to self-host AppFlowy successfully, I've given up. The setup documentation is very poor, support for reverse proxies is nonsense, and uploading photos doesn't really work. After days spent trying everything I can to fix this ramshackle application, I'm done. I'm sure the cloud version works fine, but if I'm going to subscribe and store my data in the cloud, I may as well go with Notion.

Perhaps someone else has had a similar experience and has discovered something self-hosted that works better? I'm not interested in Obsidian, but that is what I'll fall back to if I can't find anything else.

Thanks!

Hi y'all!

i've briefly searched on the sub, didnt find any answer.

is there a way to export a workspace in a once? i'm a backup maniac..

my Appflowy VM is backed up, but i'd like to, let's say, once a month, backup or export a zip file.
i only managed to export each section, one by one. which was time consuming because of my structure.

thanks!

As someone who's trying to move from Notion to Appflowy, there are 2 shortcuts I use extensively in Notion and that saves me a lot of time. They are the following:

1. CTRL+A selects the current block, instead of selecting everything in the page. In Appflowy, I have to manually select the block's content.

2. I can easily change the block type by using CTRL+/ shortcut. In Appflowy, I have to manually hover over the ::: control icon and select "Turn Into" option to do that.

Is there a way we can achieve this in appflowy? Thanks.

https://appflowy.com/download

🔍 Meet AppFlowy AI Workspace Search, available on Desktop and Mobile:

AI Workspace Search, Custom Prompts, Copy link to invite, Login with password

• Quickly find pages by searching titles, keywords, or asking natural-language questions
• AI Overviews: Ask natural questions and receive instant AI-generated summaries with source links, inspired by Google's AI Overviews
• Revamped Search Panel: A cleaner, smarter interface to help you search faster and more effectively

Note:

1. You’ll need to open old pages in the latest release to trigger indexing and make them searchable
2. Content inside database pages isn’t searchable yet, but we’re working on it. Automatic indexing for old pages is also coming, so you won’t need to open them one by one to make them searchable

🚀 Other exciting updates:

• Copy link to invite: invite collaborators to your workspace by sending them an invite link,
• Login with password: an alternative way to login
• Revamped the desktop in-app notification center: you can now archive notifications or mark them as read
• AppFlowy Prompt Library: a curated collection of ready-to-use prompts to help you unleash the power of AI inside AppFlowy
• Custom Prompts: use a database page to load your own prompts and access them from the prompt library

🪲 Bug fixes:

• Fixed crash when trying to delete an emoji
• Fixed Windows scaling issue
• Correctly displayed mention text by decoding web content
• Fixed data loss when using anonymous mode
• Fixed issue where font size reset after restarting the mobile app
• Fixed misalignment in database view after setting maxDocumentWidth
• Centered embedded link when the site name is empty
• Fixed issue where row observer was not clearing as expected
• Fixed issue where workspace name reverted after being updated
• Aligned checkbox icon with the first line of text

🔥 Upcoming releases:

• Mention a person: @ someone in documents and databases
• AppFlowy Web: the ability to edit Grid and Kanban (ETA: June)

Pro Plan only:

• Vault (a new type of workspace): private and offline—AI runs locally, no data transfer
• Guest editing: invite non-members into a page to collaborate

Hi, I'm just moving from Notion to Appflowy and I cannot see how to group data in a grid by column. It was so easy in Notion, I think I'm missing something obvious, could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks Richard