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TriliumNext
Trilium
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TriliumNext / Trilium

Trilium

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

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Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

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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…

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Observed mentions: 2018-09-02 16:51:43 UTC to 2025-12-25 21:30:41 UTC.

051015202018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 2 submissions, 17 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 2 submissions, 8 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 4 submissions, 13 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 0 submissions, 12 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments2025

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19217
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1028
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12012
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725

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Trilium Notes Arabic | Chinese (Simplified Han script) | Chinese (Traditional Han script) | Czech | English (United Kingdom) | English | French | German | Greek | Indonesian | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Uyghur | Vietnamese Trilium Notes is a free and open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. Looking for "Trillium Notes"? The project's canonical spelling is "Trilium Notes", with one l. ⏬ Download Latest release – stable version, recommended for most users. Nightly build – unstable development version, updated daily with the latest features and fixes. 📚 Documentation Visit our comprehensive documentation at docs.triliumnotes.org Our documentation is available in multiple formats: Online Documentation: Browse the full documentation at docs.triliumnotes.org In-App Help: Press F1 within Trilium to access the same documentation directly in the application GitHub: Navigate through the User Guide in this repository Quick Links Getting Started Guide Installation Instructions Docker Setup Upgrading TriliumNext Basic Concepts and Features Patterns of Personal Knowledge Base 🎁 Features Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep tree. Single note can be placed into multiple places in the tree (see cloning) Rich WYSIWYG note editor including e.g. tables, images and math with markdown autoformat Support for editing notes with source code, including syntax highlighting Fast and easy navigation between notes, full text search and note hoisting Seamless note versioning Note attributes can be used for note organization, querying and advanced scripting UI available in English, German, Spanish, French, Romanian, and Chinese (simplified and traditional) Direct OpenID and TOTP integration for more secure login Synchronization with self-hosted sync server there are 3rd party services for hosting synchronisation server Sharing (publishing) notes to public internet Strong note encryption with per-note granularity Sketching diagrams, based on Excalidraw (note type "canvas") Relation maps and note/link maps for visualizing notes and their relations Mind maps, based on Mind Elixir Geo maps with location pins and GPX tracks Scripting - see Advanced showcases REST API for automation Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes Touch optimized mobile frontend for smartphones and tablets Built-in dark theme, support for user themes Evernote and Markdown import & export Web Clipper for easy saving of web content Customizable UI (sidebar buttons, user-defined widgets, ...) Metrics, along with a Grafana Dashboard. ✨ Check out the following third-party resources/communities for more TriliumNext related goodies: awesome-trilium for 3rd party themes, scripts, plugins and more. TriliumRocks! for tutorials, guides, and much more. ❓Why TriliumNext? The original Trilium developer (Zadam) has graciously given the Trilium repository to the community project which resides at https://github.com/TriliumNext ⬆️Migrating from Zadam/Trilium? There are no special migration steps to migrate from a zadam/Trilium instance to a TriliumNext/Trilium instance. Simply install TriliumNext/Trilium as usual and it will use your existing database. Versions up to and including v0.90.4 are compatible with the latest zadam/trilium version of v0.63.7. Any later versions of TriliumNext/Trilium have their sync versions incremented which prevents direct migration. 💬 Discuss with us Feel free to join our official conversations. We would love to hear what features, suggestions, or issues you may have! Matrix (For synchronous discussions.) The General Matrix room is also bridged to XMPP Github Discussions (For asynchronous discussions.) Github Issues (For bug reports and feature requests.) 🏗 Installation Windows / MacOS Download the binary release for your platform from the latest release page, unzip the package and run the trilium executable. Linux If your distribution is listed in the table below, use your distribution's package. You may also download the binary release for your platform from the latest release page, unzip the package and run the trilium executable. TriliumNext is also provided as a Flatpak, but not yet published on FlatHub. Browser (any OS) If you use a server installation (see below), you can directly access the web interface (which is almost identical to the desktop app). Currently only the latest versions of Chrome & Firefox are supported (and tested). Mobile To use TriliumNext on a mobile device, you can use a mobile web browser to access the mobile interface of a server installation (see below). See issue #4962 for more information on mobile app support. TriliumDroid If you prefer a native Android app, you can use TriliumDroid. Report bugs and missing features at their repository. Note: It is best to disable automatic updates on your server installation (see below) when using TriliumDroid since the sync version must match between Trilium and TriliumDroid. Pocket Trilium If you want a full-featured native Android app, check out Pocket Trilium. It runs a complete Trilium instance on your phone, supports full offline use, and allows you to sync with your server. Trinote If you want a native iOS app, you can use Trinote, an open-source client for your self-hosted Trilium / TriliumNext server. It lets you browse and organize your note tree, search for notes on the server, read and edit all note types (text, code, mindmap, spreadsheet, geomap, canvas, etc.), and keeps notes available and editable offline. Here's the repo if you're interested in contributing and here's the discord server if you have any feedback or suggestions you want to discuss. Server To install TriliumNext on your own server (including via Docker from Dockerhub) follow the server installation docs. 💻 Contribute Translations If you are a native speaker, help us translate
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What Hacker News says

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dunham·Mar 16, 2025
It depends on what subset of Notion you use. Nothing (including Notion) is perfect for me. I'd like to build my own eventually, but I'm currently using Obsidian which doesn't hit your "works in the 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. Other commercial options include Realm, Tana, and Craft. With varying degrees of "AI". I really like the UX of Tana for building out graphs of pages with properties, but it's slow to start up, doesn't support math, etc. So it's mainly a UX example for me.
In Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
maphew·Apr 1, 2024
@ezst I've come across a couple of your comments noting the benefits and shortfalls of the current crop of PKMS. Lots of head nodding going on over here on the "sure you can define your tags/categories/types, but after page/note creation you're on your own for management" theme. That 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 they might want to be? (if there's a better place to have this conversation than (ab)using this thread feel free to point the way. Assuming you wish to indulge me at all that is. ;-)
In Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
Lazare·Jan 17, 2024
Tried Obsidian for a while, loved a lot about it, but....mmm. Obsidian out of the box is a bit limited; plugins are great and add tons of features, but then you start hitting issues with plugin maintainers abandoning plugins you rely on, or needing to make a decision between three different plugins that all do the same thing slightly different. Depending on your use case and expectations that may not be a big deal, but I really missed not having what I personally saw as core features not being officially supported. (Also, FWIW, the sync service is a bit pricy for what it is. I get that it's how they're trying to monetise it, but...I would have preferred another pricing model, even if the total cost was just as high.) I've personally switched to Trilium Notes which I'm finding nicer. One element I particularly like is that it has first cla
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ss suport for notes being able to exist at multiple places in a tree simultaneously. I know it's a very personal thing, but for me personally 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): https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Patterns-of-personal-k...
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