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What is Docmost?

Docmost gives teams a shared place to write and organize operational knowledge without handing the content layer to a hosted-only vendor. Pages live inside permissioned spaces, multiple people can edit together, and diagrams, comments, history, attachments, and search keep supporting context close to the writing.

Docmost is open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It provides real-time collaboration, spaces, permissions, comments, page history, search, file attachments, and embedded content.

Core capabilities

  • Co-edit wiki pages in real time with comments and version history
  • Organize knowledge in spaces with groups and granular permissions
  • Embed files and create Draw.io, Excalidraw, and Mermaid diagrams

Collaborative pages with visual context

The editor supports simultaneous writing, comments, page history, attachments, embeds, and Draw.io, Excalidraw, and Mermaid diagrams. A page can hold both an explanation and its supporting material, while search helps colleagues recover existing knowledge instead of creating another disconnected document.

  • real-time editing
  • comments
  • diagrams
  • search

Spaces, permissions, and controlled deployment

Spaces and groups organize access to team knowledge, with self-hosting keeping operation under the organization's control. The repository separates the AGPL-licensed core from enterprise-licensed features. SSO and enterprise governance capabilities should therefore be checked against the chosen edition rather than assumed to accompany every installation.

  • spaces
  • permissions
  • self-hosted
  • SSO

Where it fits

Use cases

  1. 01

    Maintain an internal company wiki

    Structure policies, onboarding material, playbooks, and team references in spaces whose access follows organizational groups and responsibilities.

  2. 02

    Write technical and product documentation

    Co-author living specifications, architecture notes, release guidance, and runbooks with rich pages, code blocks, diagrams, comments, links, and revision history.

  3. 03

    Host knowledge in a restricted environment

    Deploy Docmost on infrastructure the organization administers, then choose the edition and authentication features required for its access, storage, and operational needs.