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Can this be self-hosted? What stops me from using these kind of tools is the fact I don't know who can read it and what they could do with it. I may occasionally paste some work in progress documentation that will be public anyway, but anything private I don't think I would ever trust such app unless I am hosting it myself.

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It is pure Javascript, you can use it locally after a few tweaks in the code.

There are few lines that phone pingdom, you can just removed them.

They sell a desktop app version which is advertised as "no internet connection required". Only supports Windows and Mac tho.

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