siyuan

A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

⭐ 44,081 stars on GitHub · 🍴 2,811 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is siyuan?

Finding a local-first knowledge base that handles massive documents without choking is surprisingly difficult. SiYuan steps into this gap as a privacy-centric, self-hosted personal knowledge management (PKM) system built entirely around highly granular

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ anki
• 🏷️ chatgpt
• 🏷️ deepseek
• 🏷️ electron
• 🏷️ evernote
• 🏷️ knowledge-base
• 🏷️ local-first
• 🏷️ markdown
• 🏷️ note-taking
• 🏷️ notes-app

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project ships a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml — get running in 3 commands:

git clone https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan.git
cd siyuan
docker compose up -d

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: siyuan-note/siyuan
• 🌐 Homepage: https://b3log.org/siyuan
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 23/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.