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Trilium Notes — open source alternative

Hierarchical personal notes with scripting.

Strengths

  • Deep hierarchical notes with relations.
  • Scripting support for automation inside notes.
  • Strong for large personal knowledge bases.

Weaknesses

  • No official mobile apps.
  • UI feels dense for new users.
  • Original maintainer stepped back; Trilium Next fork is active.
License: AGPL-3.0 Self-host difficulty: 2/5 Self-host onlyDesktop: Windows, macOS, Linux

Official site · Source on GitHub

Ad slot — OSS middle

Trilium Notes is used as an alternative to

Notion

All-in-one workspace for notes, docs and databases.

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Evernote

Classic note-taking and web-clipper.

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Obsidian

Local-first markdown knowledge base (closed source, free for personal use).

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