Refly.AI

Refly.AI – The Open-Source Agentic Workspace for Human-AI Collaboration

What is Refly.AI?

Refly.AI is an open-source, AI-native content creation platform centered around a "Free Canvas" workflow. It integrates multi-threaded conversations, intelligent knowledge retrieval, memory-based context management, and a rich WYSIWYG editor to help users move seamlessly from ideas to structured content. It supports tasks like prototyping product designs, creating presentations, conducting analyses, managing RAG knowledge bases, and more.

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Why Choose Refly.AI?

• Free-form, multi-threaded canvas: Users can handle multiple topics or threads in parallel, enabling rich, branching AI-assisted workflows.(
• Knowledge integration: Easily import PDFs, web pages, and other materials. Refly organizes and structures content intelligently for deep knowledge exploration.
• Context memory & smart search: Works like a second brain—with memory of past context and built-in web search to inform writing or research.
• AI-powered editor: A Notion-style interface with live Markdown rendering, content optimization, and contextual assistance.
• Broad capabilities: Supports writing, code and diagram generation (HTML, SVG, React, Mermaid), citation tracking, file parsing, and website visualizations.
• Open source & flexible deployment: Available as both self-hosted (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-hosted versions.

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Core Functionality

• Multi-threaded conversation: Manage branching dialogues with AI across independent topics for parallel ideation.
• Model interoperability: Works with over 13 models including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0, DeepSeek R1, and OpenAI’s models, enabling hybrid model workflows.
• Rich multimodal input: Accepts PDFs, DOCX, web pages, images, and more—enabling canvas-based batch analysis and intelligent parsing.
• Knowledge base & retrieval: Offers RAG-style architecture for semantic retrieval, knowledge graph building, and personal knowledge space management.
• Content capture & citation: Snap content from GitHub, Medium, Wikipedia, etc., auto-structure it, and generate citations seamlessly.
• AI-enhanced editor: Supports live Markdown, optimization suggestions, structured writing, and a smooth editor experience.
• Code & visualization support: Generates HTML, React components, diagrams. Offers web preview and responsive prototyping.

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How to Use Refly.AI?

• Self-Host: Use Docker or Kubernetes to run the Community Edition
• Cloud Use: Refly Cloud provides zero-config access, with preview access to GPT-4o-mini and trial access to premium models.
• Installable extensions: Optionally use their Chrome extension for easy content clipping and knowledge base integration.

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Use Cases

Scenario	Application
Content Creation	Blog posts, social media content, reports—generate titles, outlines, drafts.
Research & Writing	Academic or legal work—organize references, extract key points, draft papers.
Marketing & Presentations	Produce pitch decks or campaign briefs from canvas-driven brainstorming.
Developer Support	Create HTML/React demos, diagrams, or interactive prototypes with code artifacts.