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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

💬 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

Clone locally and run

npm install
npm run start-server

👏 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.