memos

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.

⭐ 62,637 stars on GitHub · 🍴 4,698 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: Go

What is memos?

Capturing fleeting thoughts and code snippets shouldn't require navigating complex folder hierarchies or waiting for a heavy Electron client to sync. Memos delivers a frictionless, timeline-based microblogging experience for your personal notes, packaged as

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ docker
• 🏷️ foss
• 🏷️ go
• 🏷️ markdown
• 🏷️ memo
• 🏷️ microblog
• 🏷️ note-taking
• 🏷️ notecard
• 🏷️ own-your-data
• 🏷️ react

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/usememos/memos.git
cd memos
docker build -t memos .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 memos

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: usememos/memos
• 🌐 Homepage: https://usememos.com
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 29/08/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.