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Northwind Studio/🎯 Project kickoff🚀 Website relaunchHome📓 Statistics lecture SavedOffline Syncing …MA Share
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🎯

Project kickoff

Goal: the new website live by 30 October. – Mara takes the home pageMara

AIImproveShortenTranslateExplain more simply
Shorten On this deviceNew website live by 30 October.AcceptDiscard

Next steps

  • Finalise copy
  • Choose images
  • Check translations
  • Send the press text to Jonas
TipWe launch in German and English.

Budget: 12 × €2,400 = €28,800Tab

AAylinYearly prices too?
🚀

Website relaunch

Table Board Timeline Calendar
Filter Sort Group New
TaskStatusDue
To doIn progressDone
Wk 42Wk 43Wk 44Wk 45
Design home pageIn progressOct 14
Write copyTo doOct 15
Choose imagesDoneOct 16
TranslationsTo doOct 12
Plan launchIn progressOct 13
Collect feedbackDoneOct 14
CustomizeMonday, 26 October

Good morning, Alex.

Pick up where you left off.

Recently edited
🎯 Project kickoffEdited just now🚀🚀 Website relaunchEdited 12 min ago📓📓 Statistics lectureEdited yesterday
My tasks Send the quote to the Weber familyToday Choose images Prepare the sprint review Focus25:00Start
Lined · A4
“Notes” moved to the trashUndo
⇧⌘Space
Quick captureSend the quote to the Weber family Inbox As a task for today Saved to “Inbox”
🎯 Project kickoff🚀 Website relaunchHome📓 Statistics lecture

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Start the real demo The real app with sample content – no account needed.

One page tree for everything

Every idea gets the shape it needs.

Documents

Write in blocks: text, tasks, tables, formulas and diagrams on one page.

  • Commands with “/”, drag blocks by their handle, voice notes
  • Tasks with @person and due date
  • Suggest changes, accept or reject them
Project kickoff
MMara · edited today

Goal: the new website live by 30 October.

/task
  • Task list
  • Table
  • Chart
  • Finalise copy
  • Choose images
DecisionWe launch in German and English.
Budget12 × €2,400 = €28,800

Databases

The same records as a table, board, calendar or timeline – switch views, copy nothing.

  • Grouped filters, sorting, three levels of grouping
  • Formulas, relations and rollups
  • Recurring records and reminders
TaskStatusDue
To doIn progressDone
Mon 12Tue 13Wed 14Thu 15Fri 16
Wk 42Wk 43Wk 44Wk 45
Design home pageIn progressOct 13
Write copyTo doOct 15
Choose imagesDoneOct 12
TranslationsTo doOct 16
Plan launchIn progressOct 14
Collect feedbackDoneOct 16

Whiteboards

An infinite canvas for workshops and diagrams: notes, shapes, connectors and links to your pages.

  • Mind maps, flowcharts, BPMN, UML and ERD – with automatic layout
  • Private mode, planning poker, voting and a timer
  • Turn notes into database records in one click, grouped by AI if you like
Shorter onboarding
Demo video
Clearer pricing
Project kickoff
2
05:00
Mara
Jonas

Journal

A new page every day. What stayed open yesterday is at the top today.

  • Daily template and trackers for mood, sleep or sport
  • Open tasks move to the new day automatically
  • Streak, heatmap and “on this day”
Friday16 October

Good meeting with the client, the draft is approved.

  • Present the draft
  • Write the invoice
  • Answer e-mails
TodaySaturday, 17 October
  • Write the invoice
  • Answer e-mails

Projects & tickets

Tickets with numbers, sprints with a burndown, rules that take over routine steps – only when you switch them on.

  • Ticket numbers like WEB-123, subtasks and epics
  • Automations, status workflows and WIP limits on boards
  • Sprints, time tracking and Git commits on the record
Open
WEB-17Check prices
WEB-11Design the start page
In progress2/31/3
WEB-12Fix the login
fixes WEB-14 · Ada
Done
WEB-14Make search faster
Sprint 14 · 5 points left
Automation: Done on = today

Surveys

A survey like SurveyMonkey, built in minutes – every answer lands as a record in the database.

  • 19 question types: stars, NPS, scales, matrix, ranking …
  • Conditions, pages, closing date and answer limit
  • Share publicly, results analysed right away

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How do you like the new design?

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Results
+42NPS · 128 answers
  • Documents62 %
  • Databases48 %
  • Whiteboards31 %
Avg. 4.3 stars
Databases

Ten views. The same data.

A change on the board shows up in the calendar right away.

  • Table
  • Board
  • Calendar
  • Timeline
  • Gallery
  • List
  • Feed
  • Chart
  • Form
  • Sprints
Board: a card moves to another column, the others make room.
Gantt: move a bar and its successors follow – with dependencies and the critical path.
Collaboration

Together on the same line.

Several people write at the same time, comments stick right to the text.

  • Live editing in documents, databases and whiteboards
  • Comments, reactions and mentions
  • Guest links to view, comment or edit
  • Public pages and forms without an account
Press releaseMJA

From Monday the new website is online in two languages.Mara

All prices are right on the home page, no form needed.Jonas

A
Aylin@Jonas yearly prices too?
Aylin mentioned you in “Press release”
Guest linkViewCommentEdit live
Handwriting

With a pen.
Like on paper.

Notebooks with lined, grid or dotted paper, annotations right on PDFs and sketches in the middle of a document – with the Apple Pencil, another pen, a mouse or a finger.

  • Pen with pressure, highlighter, lasso and shapes that snap into place
  • A4 or Letter paper, light or dark; PDFs as notebooks, export as PDF
  • Only the pen draws – a resting hand leaves no marks
  • In the iPhone and iPad app: handwriting is searchable and turns into text on request
Lecture notes with the pen: a rectangle snaps into shape, the highlighter marks a word.
Home page

Your home page,
the way you work.

20 widgets – tasks, agenda, journal, focus timer, habits, scratchpad and more – arranged per workspace.

  • Drag, resize and set up widgets
  • A header with a colour, gradient or cover, an emoji and a background
  • Owners choose the home page new members start with
Customizing the home page: a new gradient, the scratchpad moved to the front, the agenda at full width.
Speed

Feels instant.
Even offline.

Changes show before the server answers – and can be taken back. Pages you have seen before are back without waiting.

  • Changes appear at once; deleting and moving come with “Undo”
  • Visited pages open without waiting, the next one loads while you point at it
  • Placeholders in the right shape instead of jumping content
  • Smooth transitions – off when your system asks for less motion
  • Keep writing offline, changes merge when you reconnect
Undo: delete a page and bring it back from the notice – or with ⌘Z.
Offline: keep writing in airplane mode; on reconnecting everything merges – including what others wrote meanwhile.
Apps

On every device.
With everything only an app can do.

In the browser, as a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, for iPhone and iPad on the App Store and for Android straight as an APK.

iPhone & iPad

On the App Store
  • Timer and focus as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
  • Siri, Shortcuts and widgets for the Home and Lock Screen
  • Handoff to the Mac and back
  • Offline with its own copy, synced when you reconnect
  • Apple Pencil, document scanner and sharing from any app
Download on the App Store

Android

Straight as an APK, no Play Store
  • Notifications with buttons: done, tomorrow, reply
  • Widgets and quick capture as a tile
  • A running timer as a Live Update
  • Share from any app into the inbox, offline as in the browser
Download

macOS, Windows, Linux

Desktop app
  • Quick capture from anywhere: ⇧⌘ Space or Ctrl+Shift+Space
  • Menu bar or tray icon with today's tasks
  • Spelling suggestions, pages in their own windows, flowplan:// links
  • Drop files on the icon, print and save as PDF
  • Updates in the background with progress; optional Apple Intelligence on the Mac
Download
Live Activity on the iPhone: the focus timer on the Lock Screen, then in the Dynamic Island.
Quick capture in the desktop app: a shortcut, a small window, “As a task for today” – saved to the inbox.
Share & present

Show what you have.
Without rebuilding it.

A document becomes a presentation, a page becomes a public page, a link becomes an invitation – with exactly the permissions you want.

  • Present: headings become slides, with a presenter view
  • Public pages and links with password and expiry date
  • Guests only see what you share – permissions down to a single record
  • Reading mode and focus mode with a word goal
  • Two pages side by side in split view
  • Commands with ⌘K or Ctrl+K – shortcuts that match your system, and your own
Present: a document becomes slides – every heading starts a new one.
All features

What's inside.

Documents

  • Block editor with “/” commands
  • Task lists, callouts, toggles
  • Up to three columns side by side
  • Highlighted code, Mermaid diagrams
  • Math with KaTeX
+17 more
  • Calculating in text, vectors, function graphs
  • Mark up and draw on photos
  • Images, files, embeds, link cards
  • Mentions of people and pages
  • Tasks with assignee and due date
  • Synced blocks
  • Suggestion mode
  • Voice notes with transcription
  • Focus mode with a word goal
  • Compare versions, restore single paragraphs
  • Print and PDF layout, export as Word and e-book (EPUB)
  • Present with a presenter view
  • Reading mode and split view
  • Footnotes, citations and bibliography (Zotero, DOI)
  • Edit as Markdown
  • Show authors in colour
  • Right-to-left text

Handwriting

  • Notebooks with lined, grid, dotted, Cornell or music paper
  • Pen with pressure, highlighter, lasso, laser pointer
  • Annotate PDFs, open them as notebooks, download with annotations
  • Drawing blocks in documents with /draw
  • Shapes snap into place, only the pen draws
+2 more
  • Search handwriting and convert it to text (iPhone and iPad app)
  • Export as PDF

Databases

  • Ten views of the same data
  • 24 field types, including formula, relation, rollup
  • Filter groups and sorting
  • Groups on three levels, swimlanes
  • Your own status columns right on the board
+9 more
  • Calculations per column
  • Recurrence and reminders
  • Record pages with their own layout
  • Permissions per record and per property
  • Copy or move records to other databases
  • Forms, also for guests
  • Surveys with 19 question types, conditions and results
  • Two-way calendar sync (CalDAV, Google, Microsoft 365)
  • CSV import and export

Projects & tickets

  • Ticket numbers like WEB-123, linked in text
  • Subtasks and epics with progress
  • Sprints with backlog, burndown and velocity
  • Automations: when …, then …
  • Status workflows with allowed changes and required fields
+8 more
  • WIP limits on boards
  • Time tracking with a timer and weekly report
  • Git connection for GitHub, GitLab and Gitea
  • GitHub and GitLab issues synced both ways
  • Dashboards with metrics from several databases
  • Customer portal: requests with status and replies
  • Import from Jira and Trello
  • Gantt with dependencies and critical path

Workflows

  • Flows of nodes on a canvas, no code at all
  • Triggers: records, pages, forms, schedules, comments and mentions
  • Conditions, branches, loops, waits and approvals
  • Change records and pages, notify by push, e-mail and chat
  • AI nodes and HTTP calls to other services
+7 more
  • Inbound webhooks and e-mails, a new journal day, a button on the page
  • Approve or reject right from the notification on your phone
  • Placeholders with values from earlier steps
  • Dry runs and test runs, run history, versions
  • Templates and an AI builder: one sentence is enough for a draft
  • Runs as the person who activated it – never with more permissions
  • REST API and MCP

Whiteboards

  • Notes, shapes, text, freehand with pen pressure
  • Mind maps with automatic layout
  • Guides, grid, align and stack
  • Sort notes by colour, person or votes
  • Stamps, laser pointer, “follow me”
+13 more
  • Voting, also anonymous, and a timer with music
  • Private mode for brainstorming, planning poker, “bring everyone here”
  • Shape libraries: flowchart, BPMN, UML, ERD, org chart, network, wireframes
  • Automatic layout, import from Mermaid and PlantUML
  • Clickable prototypes and timelines (roadmaps) on the board
  • Groups, minimap, frames overview and search on the board
  • Embed videos, web pages and PDFs, crop images
  • Image search and icons
  • Pages and database records as cards; notes become records
  • Optional AI: group by theme, summarise as a page, generate diagrams
  • Present with speaker notes, export as PDF and PNG
  • Over 20 templates and your own, comment pins
  • Import from Excalidraw and draw.io

Journal

  • A page for every day, automatically
  • Daily template and trackers
  • Open tasks move along
  • Place, photos and appointments of the day
  • Streak, heatmap, “on this day”
+2 more
  • Weekly and monthly review
  • PIN lock

Collaboration

  • Edit together with live cursors
  • Comments and reactions
  • Follow pages, seen by …
  • Changes since your last visit
  • Inbox and push notifications, end-to-end encrypted in the apps
+6 more
  • Guest links: view, comment, edit live
  • Public pages, also to duplicate
  • Links with password and expiry date
  • End-to-end encrypted spaces for confidential notes
  • E-mail into the inbox, messages to Slack, Matrix, Teams and Discord
  • Template gallery

Organisation

  • Workspaces and spaces
  • Groups and page permissions
  • Search, also in files and scans
  • Claude, ChatGPT & co. via MCP – with your permissions only
  • Commands and search with ⌘K or Ctrl+K, your own shortcuts
+7 more
  • A home page of your own, built from widgets
  • My tasks across all pages and databases
  • Graph of links
  • Web clipper and bookmarks
  • Favourites, trash with “Undo”, Markdown export
  • Browser extension and quick capture
  • Import from Notion, Confluence, Evernote, Google Docs and Obsidian

AI (optional)

  • Off by default, switched on per feature and person
  • Completely local with Ollama – or OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini
  • People's own keys, stored encrypted
  • You decide which pages the AI may read
  • Writing assistant: improve, shorten, translate …
+4 more
  • Summaries of pages, databases, voice notes
  • Ask your workspace, with sources
  • AI properties and databases from a description
  • On iPhone, iPad and Mac optionally with Apple Intelligence on the device – can be switched off, AI through the server stays

Operations

  • Open source under the AGPL-3.0
  • One container with SQLite – for larger teams PostgreSQL and a cluster with Redis
  • Passkeys, password, single sign-on (OIDC) or LDAP
  • Two-factor with an authenticator app, enforceable
  • SSO groups control roles and groups
+10 more
  • Permissions per space, page and record
  • Continuous backup to S3
  • Backups and S3 files encrypted with your own key
  • No tracking; AI optional – also completely local with Ollama
  • Offline in the browser, the desktop app and the apps
  • Desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux – with quick capture from any app; the iPhone and iPad app on the App Store, the Android app as an APK download
  • Activity log, monitoring with alerts, Prometheus
  • Webhooks, an API with OpenAPI clients, MCP
  • Docker, Helm chart for Kubernetes, Coolify, n8n node
  • German, English, French and Chinese – add and translate further languages yourself
Every feature step by step in the documentation
Marketplace

Templates from the community

Documents, databases, workflows, whiteboards, appearances and automatic links – shared by the community, plus the official Flowplan templates. Browse without an account; “Open in Flowplan” brings a template straight into your own instance. Share your own with GitHub or by e-mail; each one is reviewed before it is published.

New in the Marketplace

Visit the Marketplace Share your own template
AI, optional

AI if you want it.
Also completely local.

A writing assistant that improves, shortens and translates – only when you switch it on.

  • Off by default, switched on per feature and person
  • Completely local with Ollama, or with your own key
  • You decide which pages the AI may read
  • On Apple devices optionally with Apple Intelligence – the text never leaves the device
Select a paragraph, choose “Shorten”, take the suggestion.
Open source

Hosted by us in Germany.
Or on your own server.

Free software under the AGPL-3.0 – the open-source alternative to Notion: ready to go on flowplan.org, or as one container on your server.

flowplan.org

Ready to use
  • Servers in Germany
  • Updates and backups included
  • Start right away, nothing to install
Sign up

Self-hosting

On your server
  • Docker image for amd64 and arm64
  • Sign-in with password, passkey or your SSO
  • Optional S3 backups – encrypted with your key
  • For larger teams PostgreSQL and several instances in a cluster
  • Whisper for voice notes
curl -O …/compose.yamldocker compose up -d
Deploy in one clickRenderDigitalOceanAny server (cloud-init)
Installation guide Source code on GitHub Help on Discord
For admins

Operations without surprises.

What your IT department asks for is built in – no enterprise edition, no licence key.

  • Single sign-on OIDC with groups, provisioning via SCIM
  • LDAP & Active Directory Sign-in and an hourly group sync
  • Passkeys & two-factor Enforce a second factor for admins or everyone
  • Activity log Searchable, export as CSV or JSON
  • Overview & metrics Live figures, alerts by webhook, Prometheus
  • Webhooks & API Events, API tokens, OpenAPI clients, MCP
  • Backups Daily or hourly, S3, scheduled Markdown export to Git
  • Push relay Notifications to the apps end-to-end encrypted, relay open source
  • Docker, Helm, Coolify One container with SQLite – PostgreSQL and a cluster optional
Administration in the documentation
Administration: the state of the instance at a glance – live figures, backup, push relay, LDAP.
Security

In Germany.
Your data.

Servers in Germany, encrypted connections, permissions down to a single record. Backed up – and analysed by no one without your consent.

AI only when you switch it on No tracking No sharing with third parties
  • GDPR: servers in Germany, no sharing, export at any time
  • No tracking – no analytics, no ads, no third-party scripts
  • Works with keyboard and screen readers, less motion on request
  • German, English, French and Chinese – translate further languages yourself

Notifications, end-to-end encrypted. The apps for iPhone and iPad (App Store) and Android (APK from flowplan.org) get their notifications through the Flowplan push relay – from self-hosted instances, too. The instance encrypts the content for the device: the relay, Apple and Google only see ciphertext, and the notification still shows its text. Push relay: source code on GitHub

Everything about using Flowplan in the documentation
Security
Location Data centre in GermanyConnection HTTPS, encryptedSign-in Passkey, password or SSOPermissions per space, page and recordBackup regular, restorable✓ No tracking, no ads

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