Data

Tools

Indexes

Applications

Experiments

Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

https://github.com/onlydole/awesome-knowledge-infrastructure

A curated list of tools and practices for capturing, connecting, and operationalizing what your organization (and you) know.
https://github.com/onlydole/awesome-knowledge-infrastructure

List: awesome-knowledge-infrastructure

ai-infrastructure awesome awesome-list developer-experience documentation knowledge-infrastructure knowledge-management platform-engineering

Last synced: 5 days ago
JSON representation

A curated list of tools and practices for capturing, connecting, and operationalizing what your organization (and you) know.

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

          
# Awesome Knowledge Infrastructure [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)



> A curated list of tools and practices for capturing, connecting, and operationalizing what your organization (and you) know.



**Knowledge infrastructure** is the connective tissue that lets people *and software* find, trust, and act on what an organization knows. It spans capturing knowledge (notes, docs, decisions), connecting it (links, graphs, catalogs), and operationalizing it (search, retrieval, AI assistants) — from a single engineer's note vault to an enterprise's internal developer portal and AI knowledge layer.



The pieces have always existed in scattered categories — wikis, docs tools, search, PKM apps. What's new is treating them as *one layer* worth designing on purpose. This list is an opinionated map of that layer.



Curated by [Taylor Dolezal](https://github.com/onlydole), drawing on years of work across open source and cloud native infrastructure. Contributions are welcome.



## Contents



- [Foundations and Concepts](#foundations-and-concepts)

- [Personal Knowledge Management](#personal-knowledge-management)

- [Wikis and Team Knowledge Bases](#wikis-and-team-knowledge-bases)

- [Documentation as Code](#documentation-as-code)

- [Interoperability and Standards](#interoperability-and-standards)

- [Internal Developer Portals](#internal-developer-portals)

- [AI Knowledge Assistants](#ai-knowledge-assistants)

- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](#retrieval-augmented-generation)

- [Search and Retrieval](#search-and-retrieval)

- [AI Memory and Context](#ai-memory-and-context)

- [Orchestration and Durable Execution](#orchestration-and-durable-execution)

- [Knowledge Graphs](#knowledge-graphs)

- [Data Catalogs and Metadata](#data-catalogs-and-metadata)

- [Architecture Decision Records](#architecture-decision-records)

- [Diagramming and Visualization as Code](#diagramming-and-visualization-as-code)

- [Operational Knowledge](#operational-knowledge)

- [Read It Later and Annotation](#read-it-later-and-annotation)

- [Learning and Community](#learning-and-community)



## Foundations and Concepts



- [Building a Second Brain](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com) - Tiago Forte's methodology for turning scattered digital information into actionable knowledge.

- [Zettelkasten](https://zettelkasten.de) - The "slip-box" method of networked notes that underpins most modern thought tools.

- [DIKW Pyramid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid) - A foundational model describing how data becomes information, knowledge, and ultimately wisdom.

- [Communities of Practice](https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/) - Wenger-Trayner's framework for groups that deepen shared expertise through ongoing practice.

- [Knowledge-Centered Service](https://www.serviceinnovation.org/kcs/) - A methodology for capturing and reusing support knowledge as a by-product of solving problems.

- [Docs as Code](https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/) - Treating documentation with the same tools and workflows as software.

- [Diátaxis](https://diataxis.fr) - A systematic framework that organizes docs into tutorials, how-tos, reference, and explanation.

- [Team Topologies](https://teamtopologies.com) - Organizing teams and their interactions for fast flow, including how knowledge moves between them.

- [GitLab Handbook](https://handbook.gitlab.com) - The public, version-controlled handbook that models a handbook-first, transparent way of working.

- [Working Backwards](https://www.workingbackwards.com) - Amazon's PR/FAQ and narrative-memo practice for thinking through ideas before building them.



## Personal Knowledge Management



- [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) - A local-first, Markdown-based knowledge base built on a graph of linked notes.

- [Logseq](https://github.com/logseq/logseq) - A privacy-first, open source outliner for networked note-taking and tasks.

- [SiYuan](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan) - A self-hosted, block-based personal knowledge management system.

- [Joplin](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin) - An open source note and to-do app with end-to-end encryption and sync.

- [Anytype](https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts) - A local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace built on an object graph you fully own.

- [AppFlowy](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) - An open source Notion alternative for notes, wikis, and projects with local data ownership.

- [Trilium Notes](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium) - A hierarchical note-taking application for building large personal knowledge bases.

- [Org-roam](https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam) - A plain-text knowledge management system for Emacs Org-mode built on the Zettelkasten method.

- [Notion](https://www.notion.com) - An all-in-one workspace combining notes, docs, wikis, and databases.

- [Roam Research](https://roamresearch.com) - A note-taking tool for networked thought with bidirectional links and daily notes.



## Wikis and Team Knowledge Bases



- [Wiki.js](https://github.com/requarks/wiki) - A modern, open source wiki engine with a powerful editor and flexible storage backends.

- [BookStack](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack) - A simple, open source platform for organizing documentation into books, chapters, and pages.

- [DokuWiki](https://github.com/dokuwiki/dokuwiki) - A lightweight, database-free wiki that stores pages as plain text files.

- [MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org) - The open source wiki engine that powers Wikipedia, built for large collaborative knowledge bases.

- [Outline](https://github.com/outline/outline) - A fast, open source team knowledge base and wiki with real-time collaboration.

- [TiddlyWiki](https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5) - A self-contained, non-linear personal wiki you can carry in a single HTML file.

- [AFFiNE](https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE) - An open source, local-first workspace that merges documents, whiteboards, and databases.

- [Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) - Atlassian's widely used team workspace for documentation and knowledge sharing.



## Documentation as Code



- [Docusaurus](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus) - A React-based static site generator purpose-built for documentation.

- [MkDocs](https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs) - A fast, simple static site generator geared toward project documentation.

- [Material for MkDocs](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material) - A popular, feature-rich theme and toolkit on top of MkDocs.

- [Sphinx](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx) - A powerful documentation generator with rich cross-referencing, widely used in Python.

- [Starlight](https://github.com/withastro/starlight) - A documentation theme for Astro with great defaults and performance.

- [Read the Docs](https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org) - A platform that automatically builds, versions, and hosts documentation from your repository.

- [VitePress](https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress) - A Vite-powered static site generator optimized for fast, content-focused documentation.

- [Antora](https://gitlab.com/antora/antora) - A multi-repository documentation site generator built around AsciiDoc.

- [Redoc](https://github.com/Redocly/redoc) - An open source tool that renders OpenAPI definitions into reference API documentation.

- [GitBook](https://www.gitbook.com) - A hosted platform for writing and publishing polished product and developer documentation.



## Interoperability and Standards



- [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org) - A standardized, unambiguous specification of the Markdown syntax.

- [Pandoc](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc) - A universal document converter that translates between Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, and dozens of formats.

- [Org-mode](https://orgmode.org) - An Emacs format and system for authoring, organizing, and exporting structured plain-text documents.

- [JSON Canvas](https://jsoncanvas.org) - An open file format for infinite-canvas notes, originating in Obsidian.

- [Web Annotation Data Model](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/) - A W3C standard for representing annotations and highlights on web resources.

- [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) - An open protocol that standardizes how applications supply context and tools to LLMs.



## Internal Developer Portals



- [Backstage](https://github.com/backstage/backstage) - An open platform for building developer portals, with a software catalog and TechDocs.

- [Port](https://port.io) - A developer portal with a flexible software catalog and self-service actions.

- [Cortex](https://www.cortex.io) - An internal developer portal focused on service catalogs and engineering standards.

- [OpsLevel](https://www.opslevel.com) - A service catalog and developer portal for tracking ownership and maturity.

- [Clutch](https://github.com/lyft/clutch) - Lyft's extensible platform for infrastructure tooling and developer self-service.

- [Roadie](https://roadie.io) - A managed, SaaS version of Backstage for teams that want a developer portal without self-hosting.

- [Kratix](https://github.com/syntasso/kratix) - An open source framework for building platforms that offer self-service infrastructure as a product.

- [Compass](https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass) - Atlassian's developer experience platform for cataloging services and tracking software health.



## AI Knowledge Assistants



- [Dosu](https://dosu.dev) - An AI teammate that answers questions, triages issues, and maintains knowledge from your codebase and docs.

- [Onyx](https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx) - An open source AI assistant and enterprise search over your team's documents and apps (formerly Danswer).

- [Khoj](https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj) - A self-hostable AI second brain that searches and chats across your notes and documents.

- [Glean](https://www.glean.com) - An enterprise search and AI assistant connected across workplace tools.

- [Quivr](https://github.com/QuivrHQ/quivr) - An open source framework for building a personal, RAG-powered knowledge assistant.

- [Guru](https://www.getguru.com) - An enterprise knowledge platform that surfaces verified answers in the tools where people work.



## Retrieval-Augmented Generation



- [LangChain](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain) - A framework for building applications with LLMs, including retrieval-augmented generation.

- [LlamaIndex](https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index) - A data framework for connecting custom data sources to LLMs.

- [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack) - An end-to-end framework for building search and RAG pipelines.

- [txtai](https://github.com/neuml/txtai) - An all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, RAG, and LLM orchestration.

- [RAGFlow](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow) - An open source RAG engine built on deep document understanding for grounded question answering.

- [Unstructured](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured) - Open source libraries for ingesting and preprocessing documents into LLM-ready data.

- [Docling](https://github.com/docling-project/docling) - An open source toolkit that parses PDFs, Office files, and more into structured, LLM-ready formats.

- [Sentence Transformers](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers) - A Python library for state-of-the-art text and image embeddings used in semantic search.



## Search and Retrieval



- [LanceDB](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb) - An embedded, open source vector database for multimodal AI built on the Lance format.

- [Meilisearch](https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch) - A fast, typo-tolerant, open source search engine.

- [Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch) - A distributed search and analytics engine for full-text, structured, and vector search.

- [Apache Solr](https://github.com/apache/solr) - A mature, Lucene-based open source search platform for large-scale deployments.

- [Quickwit](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit) - A cloud-native, open source search engine optimized for logs and large append-only datasets.

- [pgvector](https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) - Open source vector similarity search for PostgreSQL.

- [Qdrant](https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant) - A high-performance, open source vector database for similarity search.

- [Weaviate](https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate) - An open source vector database with built-in vectorization and hybrid search.

- [Chroma](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma) - An open source embedding database designed for building AI applications quickly.

- [Milvus](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus) - A cloud-native, open source vector database built for massive-scale similarity search.



## AI Memory and Context



- [Mem0](https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0) - An open source memory layer that gives AI agents persistent, personalized recall.

- [Letta](https://github.com/letta-ai/letta) - An open source framework (formerly MemGPT) for building stateful agents with long-term memory.

- [Graphiti](https://github.com/getzep/graphiti) - An open source framework for building temporally-aware knowledge graphs for agent memory.

- [cognee](https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee) - An open source framework for building memory and knowledge graphs for AI agents from your data.



## Orchestration and Durable Execution



- [DBOS](https://www.dbos.dev) - An open source durable workflow library, backed by PostgreSQL, for building crash-resilient backends, pipelines, and AI agents.

- [Temporal](https://github.com/temporalio/temporal) - A durable execution platform for orchestrating reliable, long-running workflows and services.

- [Restate](https://github.com/restatedev/restate) - An open source durable execution engine for building resilient applications, workflows, and agents.



## Knowledge Graphs



- [Neo4j](https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j) - A widely used graph database for connected data and knowledge graphs.

- [Memgraph](https://github.com/memgraph/memgraph) - An in-memory graph database compatible with the Cypher query language.

- [Dgraph](https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph) - A distributed, GraphQL-native graph database.

- [Apache Jena](https://github.com/apache/jena) - A Java framework for building semantic web and linked-data applications.

- [TerminusDB](https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb) - An open source graph database for collaborative, versioned knowledge.

- [RDFLib](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib) - A Python library for working with RDF, including parsing, serializing, and SPARQL queries.

- [FalkorDB](https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB) - A low-latency, open source graph database designed for GraphRAG and AI workloads.

- [Protégé](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege) - A free, open source ontology editor for building OWL ontologies and knowledge models.

- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org) - A free, collaborative knowledge graph of structured data maintained by the Wikimedia community.

- [schema.org](https://schema.org) - A shared vocabulary for marking up structured data on the web.



## Data Catalogs and Metadata



- [DataHub](https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub) - An open source metadata platform for data discovery, lineage, and governance.

- [OpenMetadata](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata) - A unified, open source platform for metadata, data discovery, and observability.

- [Apache Atlas](https://atlas.apache.org) - An open source framework for data governance and metadata management.

- [OpenLineage](https://github.com/OpenLineage/OpenLineage) - An open standard for metadata and lineage collection across data pipelines.

- [CKAN](https://github.com/ckan/ckan) - An open source data management system for building open data portals and catalogs.



## Architecture Decision Records



- [adr-tools](https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools) - Command-line tools for working with Architecture Decision Records.

- [Architecture Decision Record](https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record) - Templates and examples for capturing architectural decisions.

- [MADR](https://github.com/adr/madr) - Markdown Any Decision Records, a lean template for documenting decisions.

- [Log4brains](https://github.com/thomvaill/log4brains) - A tool to log and publish ADRs as a searchable knowledge base.

- [ADR Organization](https://adr.github.io) - A community hub of templates, tooling, and guidance for Architecture Decision Records.



## Diagramming and Visualization as Code



- [Mermaid](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid) - A tool for generating diagrams and flowcharts from Markdown-like text.

- [PlantUML](https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml) - A tool for creating UML and many other diagrams from a simple text description.

- [D2](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2) - A modern, declarative language and engine for turning text into diagrams.

- [Graphviz](https://graphviz.org) - An open source toolkit for laying out and rendering graphs from the DOT language.

- [Diagrams](https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams) - A Python library for drawing cloud system architecture diagrams as code.

- [Kroki](https://github.com/yuzutech/kroki) - A unified API that renders many text-based diagram formats into images.

- [Excalidraw](https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw) - An open source virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn-style diagrams.

- [C4 model](https://c4model.com) - A lightweight approach for visualizing software architecture at multiple levels of detail.



## Operational Knowledge



- [PagerDuty Incident Response](https://response.pagerduty.com) - PagerDuty's open documentation on running effective incident response.

- [Dispatch](https://github.com/Netflix/dispatch) - Netflix's tool for orchestrating incident response and capturing what was learned.

- [Rundeck](https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck) - Runbook automation that turns operational knowledge into safe, self-service actions.

- [Google SRE Books](https://sre.google/books/) - Google's freely available books on site reliability engineering, including incident response and postmortems.

- [Grafana OnCall](https://github.com/grafana/oncall) - An open source on-call and alert management tool for incident response.

- [Cachet](https://github.com/cachethq/cachet) - An open source status page system for communicating incidents and uptime.



## Read It Later and Annotation



- [Readwise](https://readwise.io) - A service that syncs and resurfaces your highlights from books, articles, and more.

- [Hypothesis](https://github.com/hypothesis/h) - An open source tool for annotating and discussing any web page or PDF.

- [Wallabag](https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag) - A self-hostable, open source read-it-later application that saves and archives articles.

- [Karakeep](https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep) - An open source, self-hostable bookmarking app (formerly Hoarder) with AI tagging and full-text search.



## Learning and Community



- [Write the Docs](https://www.writethedocs.org) - A global community and conference series for documentation practitioners.

- [r/PKMS](https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/) - A community for discussing personal knowledge management systems.



## Contributing



Contributions are very welcome! Please read the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first, and note the [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).