Many Notes

Many Notes is a self-hosted markdown notes web app built around the concept of "vaults" — folders of plain .md files. It is MIT-licensed, written in PHP with a Vue frontend, and backed by Typesense for search. Unlike Notion, there is no proprietary block storage; notes live on disk and remain fully portable and git-/rsync-friendly.

Yes — Many Notes supports multiple users with authentication, including OAuth providers for federated login. You can invite other users to access specific vaults, and a real-time broadcasting layer keeps the UI in sync across collaborators. Each user can also maintain multiple vaults to separate work, personal, and project contexts.

Search is powered by Typesense, giving you fast, typo-tolerant full-text search across vaults. Notes are written in Markdown with automatic saving, links/backlinks, tags, and templates, and you can import or export entire vaults as plain files for backup or migration. PDF export is also available for individual notes.

Many Notes is MIT-licensed and ships as a Docker image (brufdev/many-notes:latest) deployable via docker compose. The default setup uses named Docker volumes for the SQLite database, logs, private files, and the Typesense index. The README recommends running it behind an HTTPS reverse proxy to unlock PWA install and clipboard-from-code-block support.