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You should look at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium . It's what I use every day for the things that you mentioned.

comment by fourseventy · 2025-11-24 · in I built a faster Notion in Rust

If it's for personal use I'd recommend https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium

comment by devstein · 2025-09-02 · in Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?

https://github.com/zadam/trilium#trilium-is-in-maintenance-m... seems relevant, and that's above and beyond the license difference between the two (I'm not looking for trouble, I'm only saying they are different)

comment by mdaniel · 2025-04-19 · in Taking Notes with Joplin

Trilium. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by grepfru_it · 2025-04-19 · in Taking Notes with Joplin

…browser" requirement. One option, which is open source and self hosted, is Trilium[sic], found at https://github.com/zadam/trilium It's open source, so if it's close to what you want, you might be able to adjust it to meet your needs.…

comment by dunham · 2025-03-16 · in Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

…(no risk of bloatware). Self-hosted, great webapp, optional native clients and works offline. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by ghgr · 2024-12-26 · in Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software

…of the .txt file format? Paragraphs can contain more information than one lines, you know. [0]: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by makerdiety · 2024-12-22 · in Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)

i have been very impressed with trillium notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by slipwalker · 2024-05-28 · in Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

…had me jumping with enthusiam towards Trilium, only to see it's gone into maybe-discontinued mode ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/4620 ). What are your thoughts on it's viability for someone who is not a current user but thinks…

comment by maphew · 2024-04-01 · in Writing Gnome Apps with Swift

…being able to file notes in multiple locations "clicks" in a way that tags didn't. Trilium Notes: https://github.com/zadam/trilium And here's a nice writeup on ways to use Trilium (although much of it applies to Obsidian too):…

comment by Lazare · 2024-01-17 · in Why I Like Obsidian

Then you come across Trilium and drop the mic [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by grepfru_it · 2024-01-16 · in Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base

I move between machines a lot and prefer an online tool; I'm self-hosting Trilium Notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium ; this looks a bit cleaner but without syncing (or server-side storage) it misses a bunch of potential use cases.

comment by gigel82 · 2023-12-23 · in Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

I self host Trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by gigel82 · 2023-11-24 · in Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) , centrally self hosted, nothing to sync.

comment by CountGeek · 2023-08-09 · in Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

hmm I think I prefer my selfhosted Trilium thank you https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by senectus1 · 2023-08-04 · in Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App

…for self-hosted are: - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin - https://github.com/logseq/logseq - https://github.com/zadam/trilium There is also https://github.com/foambubble/foam mentioned, which I haven't looked properly at yet. For…

comment by 3np · 2023-07-10 · in Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move operations to Europe

Trilium https://github.com/zadam/trilium And while it does use a db backend, it allows you to extend the interface with inline JavaScript. It’s extremely underrated

comment by grepfru_it · 2023-07-07 · in Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

…server side so you are just using a thin client (read: web browser) instead? See trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by grepfru_it · 2023-07-07 · in Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

In case if you want some Evernote alternatives, here's my shortlist: 1. Trilium Notes: https://github.com/zadam/trilium 2. AppFlowy: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy 3. Affine: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE 4. Joplin:…

comment by stevefan1999 · 2023-07-06 · in Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

looks good but I'm still pretty happy with self hosted trilium https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by senectus1 · 2023-07-06 · in Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by chillbill · 2023-06-25 · in Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary

…but pretty intuitive if you're taking notes instead of doing longform writing. https://logseq.com/ https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by FireInsight · 2023-06-06 · in Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash

Have you tried Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium )? It's a generic note storage (with a DAG based model) that's very extensible and comes with a demo task manager implementation: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Task-manager

comment by thijser · 2023-01-22 · in Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

…using existing apps, but none of them fit my needs, so I built an app which does fit my needs: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/

comment by The_Colonel · 2022-11-13 · in Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

…markdown documents (so i am still able to get into my notes, even if the repo would disappear). see https://github.com/zadam/trilium TLDR; - future proof file format (markdown) - possible as local standalone + sync to simple cloud storage…

comment by d33d33 · 2022-11-09 · in Writing down what I do in Obsidian

…have a very good web version. It also have cross platform app (Linux, MacOS and Windows) [1] [1] https://github.com/zadam/trilium/releases/latest

comment by elashri · 2022-10-13 · in Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

…deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation. FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.

comment by gigel82 · 2022-09-09 · in Evolving my note-taking processes

Trilium Notes offers this: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/ Note: I run a paid 3rd-party synchronization service for Trilium Notes that would offer the publishing part of what you mentioned easily, without setting up a cloud server:…

comment by sodality2 · 2022-08-23 · in Should notes be end-to-end encrypted?

I also switched between some of those apps for quite some time until i found Trilium Notes. https://github.com/zadam/trilium It's open source and you can self host it to be available through web browser for the time you're at work and…

comment by Wrongful8276 · 2022-07-27 · in After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try

Trilium Notes might be what you are looking for. Very very pleasant https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by galacticdessert · 2022-04-20 · in Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine

…and is very programmable(no mobile app, though, but self-hosted web version isn't that bad). [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by terafo · 2022-03-27 · in Programmable Notes

I don't know if self hosting is an option for you, but recently I deployed Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) on a personal server. It's really easy to set up with docker and I'm amazed at the wealth of features. I use it on…

comment by superninjy · 2022-02-13 · in Favorite Note Taking Tool

It is time to give a shout out to my favorite note taking app: Trilium https://github.com/zadam/trilium Pros: 1. Data is saved in SQlite. I am at 33k notes and it springs open instantaneously. 2. Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep…

comment by ibnishak · 2022-01-26 · in Zim – A Desktop Wiki

I couldn't find much info about Trilium Notes journal functionality. Do you mean something like this? https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Day-notes

comment by haberman · 2022-01-20 · in Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

Trilium Notes can do those very well. The first one being done with the web clipper extension. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by sxldier · 2022-01-20 · in Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

…direct alternative, since it's not using markdown files directly, but I really like Trilium notes ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ). It's open source, you can selfhost it and you can write your own scripts in JS to really make it your…

comment by McSido · 2022-01-19 · in A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters

trilium is another good one. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by baddate · 2021-12-26 · in Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows

…to publish them online (though zadam is working on something better than manually exporting) [0]: https://github.com/zadam/trilium#features

comment by sodality2 · 2021-10-09 · in Trilium Notes redesign – v0.48.0-beta

Trilium[0] has a web clipper A more universal solution would be useful though [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by Wingy · 2021-09-26 · in How I built forlater.email, my first big side project

…org-mode provides. The Emacs/org-mode level of customization would be nice, too. Trilium Notes ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) was also a good contendor, but not having a text-content-first focus made for some frustrating experiences…

comment by ydant · 2021-08-22 · in FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

I recommand an amazing cross-platform note-taking tool: Trilium( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) made by zadam.

comment by baddate · 2021-06-30 · in Incremental note-taking

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by masterfooo · 2021-06-27 · in Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

…of extensibility which might make it "future proof" for extensive data. So far it looks good. [1] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by chetangoti · 2021-06-16 · in Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization

…as the author doesn't have a Mac, but it works 95% like you'd expect with a few small quirks. [1] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by ydant · 2021-01-14 · in Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

Trilium is somewhat similar to Roam. https://github.com/zadam/trilium/

comment by diymaker · 2020-11-28 · in Digital Tools I Wish Existed

…its customizability. It supports markdown formatting which is a common request in this thread. [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by WKSU · 2020-11-12 · in Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion

…editor is less of a hassle to me. Setting up the self-hosted syncing is pretty easy as well. [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

comment by Peckingjay · 2020-09-02 · in Git-Based Wiki

…where does the encryption/decryption happen in this scenario (client/server). Any way, in my app ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ), I encrypt on the client (not the whole database, on a per-note basis), sync with the server already…

comment by The_Colonel · 2020-08-25 · in Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters

I've been using [trillium]( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) for a few weeks and have been very impressed with the combination of features and simplicity. It looks like it would check the boxes you list and since it is easily extensible…

comment by dmoose · 2020-07-25 · in Ask HN: What personal knowledge base software do you use?

…oss, local files, ability to encrypt, x-platform apps Every single box is checked by Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ), plus you can self host a server if you want to sync between as many clients as you want, and you can…

comment by square_usual · 2020-07-20 · in Tired of note-taking apps