Overview
Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note-taking application focused on building large personal knowledge bases. It supports rich text and code notes, scripting, note attributes/relations, encryption, and a graph map view. It runs as a desktop app or can be self-hosted as a server via Docker for web access and sync. The original repo is archived; the actively maintained fork is TriliumNext.
Where it falls short of Evernote
- Single-user oriented; no real-time multi-user collaboration.
- UI is dense and has a steep learning curve.
- No relational database/board views like Notion.
- Original Trilium is archived; users must migrate to the community TriliumNext fork.
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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