What is Athens?
Athens is an open-source software application designed for network graph visualization, notetaking and collaboration. It enables users to create visual network maps and diagrams to organize information, concepts, and ideas. The tool allows for linking disparate ideas together into a cohesive thinking space.
Some key features of Athens include:
- Real-time collaboration - Multiple people can work together on the same network graph document simultaneously
- Backlinking - Automatic backlinks are created to link related nodes together
- Thought grouping - Color codes and tags can be used to visually group related ideas
- Search - Full-text search allows users to quickly find nodes
- Customizable appearance - Nodes and edges can be customized with different colors, sizes and styles
- Import/export - Ability to export entire thought network as a SVG file and import into other apps
Athens is designed to facilitate linked thinking, encourage idea association, and break down knowledge silos. Its intuitive visual interface aims to help teams organize information, map out ideas, integrate insights from multiple people, and reduce duplication of thoughts across an organization.
Typora, Workflowy, CherryTree, Logseq, Anytype, Dynalist, TiddlyWiki, Notesnook, Zettlr, Trilium Notes, Mark Text are some alternatives to Athens.