Features: pages, databases, publishing and API

Write

A page is made of blocks

Start typing and you have a page. Press / for everything else, or use the Markdown shortcuts your fingers already know.

Blocks for the job: Headings, lists, to-dos, toggles, quotes, callouts, columns, code, diagrams and equations.
Markdown shortcuts: Type # for a heading, [] for a to-do or ``` for code.
Drag anything: Pick a block up by its handle and drop it anywhere, into a column too.
Synced blocks: Keep one block in several pages. Edit it once and it changes everywhere.
Files, bookmarks and embeds: Drop in images and files, or paste a link to get a preview.
Make it yours: Give a page an icon, a cover and a serif, sans or mono typeface.

Spreadsheet formulas, ten ways to look at the rows

Databases use the formulas you already know, like SUM, IF and ROUND. Ten views sit over the same rows.

Ten views: Table, Board, List, Gallery, Calendar, Timeline, Chart, Feed, Map, Form. Each with its own filters, sorts and groups.
Formulas you already know: Excel-style syntax, so nobody has to learn a new language.
Relations and rollups: Link rows across databases and total up what is linked.
Sub-items and dependencies: Break work down and mark what blocks what.
Templates and linked views: Start rows from a template, lock a database, or show it on another page.
Automations: When a row is added or changed, or on a schedule: set a property, add a row, send an email or call a webhook.

See each other work

Watch who is on a page and where they are typing. Comment on a word or a block and close the thread when it is done.

Live carets: Everyone on the page shows up with a name and a caret, as they type.
Comments and discussions: Comment on a word, a block or a whole page. Resolve threads when settled.
Mentions and backlinks: Mention a person or a page. Each page lists the pages that link to it.
Activity and email: Replies, mentions and invitations land in Activity, and in your email if you want.
Page history: Look back through earlier versions of a page and restore one.
Your own undo: Undo takes back your edits only, never the ones a teammate just made.

Turn pages into a website or a form

Publish a page and its subpages as a site with its own address, or collect answers from anyone with a public form.

A site in one click: Pick a name and your pages are live at name.collom.app, with a menu and breadcrumbs.
Your own domain: Point a domain you own at your site. HTTPS is set up for you.
Ready for search engines: Titles, descriptions, link previews and a sitemap, or a switch to stay unlisted.
Page analytics: Views and readers for each page, with no cookies and no third-party trackers.
Public forms: Share a form with anyone. Answers become rows, and bots are kept out.

Private until you say so

Spaces, guests and public links, with access set down to a single page. Search only ever shows what you can open.

Spaces: Group pages by team or topic, open to the workspace or kept to a few people.
Five levels of access: Manager, Editor, Contributor, Commenter, Reader. Set them on a space or on one page.
Guests: Invite someone outside your workspace to just the pages they need.
Public links: Share a page with the web, and take it back whenever you like.
Audit log: See who changed members, sharing, sites and tokens. Filter it or download it.

Your work does not stop when the connection does

Pages open at once and keep working on a plane, in a tunnel or when the server is down. Your changes sync when you are back.

Opens at once: Pages load from your device, not from a server far away.
Works with no connection: Write, move blocks and edit databases offline, in every tab you have open.
Merges on its own: When you are back, changes merge letter by letter, even if two people edited the same paragraph.
Nothing lost on a bad network: Edits wait in a queue on your device until the server has them.

No lock-in

Bring your pages in, take them out, and wire Collom to the rest of your tools with an API and signed webhooks.

REST API: Read and write pages and rows with a token that can only do what you can.
Signed webhooks: Get told when a page changes. Every delivery is signed so you can trust it.
OAuth apps: Let other tools connect to a workspace with the access a member approves.
Import: Markdown, HTML, CSV and Google Docs.
Export: Markdown, HTML, CSV and PDF, for a page or a whole tree.