TriliumNext Notes
Hierarchical personal knowledge base with powerful note-taking, rich text editing, and scripting capabilities.
TriliumNext Notes (a community fork of Trilium Notes) is a powerful, open-source personal knowledge base application focused on building large, hierarchical note collections. It supports rich text editing, markdown, code blocks with syntax highlighting, diagrams, relation maps, and advanced scripting via JavaScript.
Notes are organized in a tree structure, but each note can appear in multiple places through clones — a flexible approach that lets you organize information in interconnected ways. Trilium also features a powerful attribute system for tagging and templating notes, and a scripting API that enables custom automations.
For self-hosters, Trilium can be deployed as a web server and accessed from any browser. It syncs across multiple instances, supports end-to-end encryption for sensitive notes, and exports to standard formats. It is an ideal alternative to Notion or Obsidian for users who want complete data ownership and a deeply customizable note-taking system.
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Updated 6/28/2026, 4:00:56 AM
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