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Trilium Notes

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Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Mac  [https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/FAQ#mac-os-support](https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/FAQ#mac-os-support)
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
  • Google Chrome
  • Cloudron
  • Mozilla Firefox
Discontinued

Trilium transitions into maintenance mode and don't plan adding any new major functionality. You can take a look at this community fork: https://github.com/TriliumNext

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Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Distraction-free
  3.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Tree of notes
  2.  Knowledge base
  3.  Note organization
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Encrypted Notes
  6.  No Tracking
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  End-to-End Encryption
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  REST API
  11.  Cloud Sync
  12.  Notebook
  13.  Electron based
  14.  Web Clipper
  15.  Hierarchical Structure
  16.  Support for scripting
  17.  Tag based
  18.  No registration required
  19.  Real time collaboration
  20.  Command line interface
  21. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  22.  Support for MarkDown
  23.  Encrypted Backup
  24.  WYSIWYG Support

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Trilium Notes information

  • Developed by

    Zadam
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5 (13 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    349 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

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GitHub repository

  •  28,624 Stars
  •  1,932 Forks
  •  909 Open Issues
  •   Updated Aug 8, 2024 
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about Trilium Notes, and it has gotten 94 likes

Trilium Notes was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Sep 5, 2018 and this page was last updated Sep 6, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
dkshsat
Dec 13, 2019
6

2019-12-13

This is open source and free.

Like S/W, built with an Electron engine, the first experience is not good (such as many memory usage, dull UI response speeds, etc.)

This manipulates the reference between notes with some scripts and attributes to overcome the limitations of the tree structure of the data. One note can be cloned into another folder.

The learning curve is slightly higher in the middle, but there is no problem with simple text editing.

There is a reliable browser extension that allows you to capture a web page.

The text editor is Rich Text, but many features are hidden or omitted.

It is still in the developing stage and is worth considering.

But I hesitated to use it because I doubted whether it was capable of enduring a huge database.

Johxz
Jul 10, 2020

I'm testing right now, and what I see it use a database in sqlite, so I presume if exists some kind of limitation, must not be from the sqlite database, that support 140 terabytes in size.

TBayAreaPat
Aug 12, 2023

Which extension brings in web page?

cpit
May 5, 2024
1

This is an incredible, very versatile, and fairly polished application especially considering it's totally free. Until earlier this year (2024) the developer was constantly adding new features and was very responsive about fixing bugs, etc.

Even without new features being added, this is still a very solid note-taking platform. And from the sounds of it the developer will still be fixing bugs and updating libraries to keep the application functional, as the developer themselves uses it. There just won't be any more major new features added. As the developer said, this could be looked at as a benefit: "If you're a glass-half-full type of person, this should make Trilium more stable than it used to be."

This should remain an excellent option for years to come, particularly if looking for something that can be run on a private server or locally, supports multiple platforms, is accessible via web browser, has web page snapshot extensions for most browsers, is robust and offers very powerful additional features via scripting and plugins.

Linus
Feb 27, 2024
2

On Linux I was searching with what I could replace OneNote which I'm using in my work. I was searching for similar capabilities notebook. Tried a lot of them: Joplin, Chreetree, Zimm, Anydo (and many more). This one so far the best. Thought I'm looking for iOS app, because in these mobile pone days notebook only in computer is limiting Ah, and default for is ugly (IMHO) and this is the first thing I changed when installed :D glad it is easy to do via settings :)

TBayAreaPat
Aug 12, 2023
0

Not that impressed on first try. First note brought in extra things I didn't want. I removed them to find the note I inserted disappeared w/no way to undo it. CherryTree and Obsidian have more appeal. They brought in a clipping and automatically had usable website links.. Same info clip doesn't bring links into Trillium.

Ryan Fader
Oct 13, 2022
1

Much like Obsidian, Trilium is essentially a database note taking app, with some seriously impressive plugins.

Johxz
Aug 2, 2020
5

Yes in Trilium Notes, you can take notes as other alternatives, but not quite fit in the same categories as other note taking alternatives. Trilium Notes fit more in the "Personal Knowledeg Base"

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical and wiki style notes, where you have relational map, link between nodes, attributes, graph render (like pay chart), tracker, notes by date like a journal, calendar, todo list, task manager, embedded pdf viewer, code syntax highlighting, you can include pictures, photo album, note versioning, note encryption, scripting, Web clipper, etc

Yes it have a lot of features, so not try to compare with other note applications like turtl, joplin, google keep, some alternative will be notion, evernote, cherrytree, remnote, don't know other alternatives... you can almost write and management everything in Trilium. Keen in mind at the moment of this review 0.43.3, is the last release (Release today btw) and is under heavy development.

Doesn't have a mobile app, but it seems you can self-hosted and use the web version in the mobile app. I not tried it myself.

You need to use Trilium and read the documentation to know how to use it. Is not for just "taking notes"

cpit
May 5, 2024

Trilium arranges notes in a hierarchy, but one major advantage to other similar applications is that Trilium can clone notes into multiple places in the hierarchy, which gives considerable flexibility over apps where notes must be arranged hierarchically but each note can only be in one place in the hierarchy. I've not tried a ton of other hierarchy-style apps so not sure if others have this, but the few others I've tried didn't, iirc.

Rand Natret
Apr 29, 2020
0

Cool idea and some nifty ideas the other note apps don't have, but also buggy. Went to export and nothing happens, no error, just, nothing. Also isn't portable and dumps everything to the system directory, which is undesirable.

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What is Trilium Notes?

Original Feature List (with personal marked Highlights)

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 hosting

Seamless note versioning Note attributes can be used for note organization, querying and advanced scripting Synchronization with self-hosted sync server

  • Strong note encryption with per-note granularity

Relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations Scripting - see Advanced showcases

  • 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