Trilium

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

⭐ 38,536 stars on GitHub · 🍴 2,600 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is Trilium?

A self-hosted notes & knowledge management tool. Your data lives on your server — no vendor lock-in, no risk of provider shutdown.

Main components

• 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

The biggest strength is no vendor lock-in — markdown/JSON data, easy to migrate between tools.

Best for researchers, devs, product people — anyone wanting a portable second brain across devices.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ electron
• 🏷️ electron-app
• 🏷️ knowledge-base
• 🏷️ knowledge-graph
• 🏷️ knowledge-management
• 🏷️ knowledge-management-graph
• 🏷️ local-first
• 🏷️ note-managment
• 🏷️ note-taker
• 🏷️ note-taking

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium.git
cd Trilium
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Use the VSIS VPS Lite 2GB RAM / 2 vCPU / 25GB SSD (~104k/tháng) plan from VSIS.NET — high-speed VN-based VPS, 24/7 support, ideal for running Trilium smoothly.

🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: TriliumNext/Trilium
• 🌐 Homepage: https://triliumnotes.org
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 24/10/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.