TriliumNext Notes

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TriliumNext Notes is an open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.

See screenshots for quick overview:

⚠️ Why TriliumNext?

The original Trilium project is in maintenance mode

Migrating from Trilium?

There are no special migration steps to migrate from a zadam/Trilium instance to a TriliumNext/Notes instance. Just upgrade your Trilium instance to the latest version and install TriliumNext/Notes as usual

💬 Discuss with us

Feel free to join our official conversations. We would love to hear what features, suggestions, or issues you may have!

• Matrix (For synchronous discussions)
  • The General Matrix room is also bridged to XMPP
• Github Discussions (For Asynchronous discussions)
• Wiki (For common how-to questions and user guides)

🎁 Features

• Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep tree. Single note can be placed into multiple places in the tree (see cloning)
• Rich WYSIWYG note editing 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
• Synchronization with self-hosted sync server
  • there's a 3rd party service for hosting synchronisation server
• Sharing (publishing) notes to public internet
• Strong note encryption with per-note granularity
• Sketching diagrams with built-in Excalidraw (note type "canvas")
• Relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations
• Scripting - see Advanced showcases
• REST API for automation
• Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes
• Touch optimized mobile frontend for smartphones and tablets
• Night theme
• Evernote and Markdown import & export
• Web Clipper for easy saving of web content

✨ Check out the following third-party resources/communities for more TriliumNext related goodies:

• awesome-trilium for 3rd party themes, scripts, plugins and more.
• TriliumRocks! for tutorials, guides, and much more.

🏗 Installation

Desktop

To use TriliumNext on your desktop machine (Linux, MacOS, and Windows) you have a few options:

• Download the binary release for your platform from the latest release page, unzip the package and run the trilium executable.
• Access TriliumNext via the web interface of a server installation (see below)
  • Currently only the latest versions of Chrome & Firefox are supported (and tested).
• (Coming Soon) TriliumNext will also be provided as a Flatpak

Mobile

To use TriliumNext on a mobile device:

• Use a mobile web browser to access the mobile interface of a server installation (see below)
• Use of a mobile app is not yet supported (see here) to track mobile improvements.

Server

To install TriliumNext on your own server (including via Docker from Dockerhub) follow the server installation docs.

📝 Documentation

See wiki for complete list of documentation pages.

You can also read Patterns of personal knowledge base to get some inspiration on how you might use TriliumNext.

💻 Contribute

Code

git clone https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes.git
cd Notes
npm install
npm run start-server

Documentation

Head on over to our Docs repo

👏 Shoutouts

• CKEditor 5 - best WYSIWYG editor on the market, very interactive and listening team
• FancyTree - very feature rich tree library without real competition. TriliumNext Notes would not be the same without it.
• CodeMirror - code editor with support for huge amount of languages
• jsPlumb - visual connectivity library without competition. Used in relation maps and link maps

🤝 Support

You can support the original Trilium developer using GitHub Sponsors, PayPal or Bitcoin (bitcoin:bc1qv3svjn40v89mnkre5vyvs2xw6y8phaltl385d2). Support for the TriliumNext organization will be possible in the near future.

🔑 License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.