Trilium Notes

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Trilium Notes is a free and open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.

See screenshots for quick overview:

📚 Documentation

Visit our comprehensive documentation at docs.triliumnotes.org

Our documentation is available in multiple formats:

• Online Documentation: Browse the full documentation at docs.triliumnotes.org
• In-App Help: Press F1 within Trilium to access the same documentation directly in the application
• GitHub: Navigate through the User Guide in this repository

Quick Links

• Getting Started Guide
• Installation Instructions
• Docker Setup
• Upgrading TriliumNext
• Basic Concepts and Features
• Patterns of Personal Knowledge Base

🎁 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 editor 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
• UI available in English, German, Spanish, French, Romanian, and Chinese (simplified and traditional)
• Direct OpenID and TOTP integration for more secure login
• 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, based on Excalidraw (note type "canvas")
• Relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations
• Mind maps, based on Mind Elixir
• Geo maps with location pins and GPX tracks
• 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
• Built-in dark theme, support for user themes
• Evernote and Markdown import & export
• Web Clipper for easy saving of web content
• Customizable UI (sidebar buttons, user-defined widgets, ...)
• Metrics, along with a Grafana Dashboard

✨ 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.

❓Why TriliumNext?

The original Trilium developer (Zadam) has graciously given the Trilium repository to the community project which resides at https://github.com/TriliumNext

⬆️Migrating from Zadam/Trilium?

There are no special migration steps to migrate from a zadam/Trilium instance to a TriliumNext/Trilium instance. Simply install TriliumNext/Trilium as usual and it will use your existing database.

Versions up to and including v0.90.4 are compatible with the latest zadam/trilium version of v0.63.7. Any later versions of TriliumNext/Trilium have their sync versions incremented which prevents direct migration.

💬 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.)
• Github Issues (For bug reports and feature requests.)

🏗 Installation

Windows / MacOS

Download the binary release for your platform from the latest release page, unzip the package and run the trilium executable.

Linux

If your distribution is listed in the table below, use your distribution's package.

You may also download the binary release for your platform from the latest release page, unzip the package and run the trilium executable.

TriliumNext is also provided as a Flatpak, but not yet published on FlatHub.

Browser (any OS)

If you use a server installation (see below), you can directly access the web interface (which is almost identical to the desktop app).

Currently only the latest versions of Chrome & Firefox are supported (and tested).

Mobile

To use TriliumNext on a mobile device, you can use a mobile web browser to access the mobile interface of a server installation (see below).

See issue #4962 for more information on mobile app support.

If you prefer a native Android app, you can use TriliumDroid. Report bugs and missing features at their repository. Note: It is best to disable automatic updates on your server installation (see below) when using TriliumDroid since the sync version must match between Trilium and TriliumDroid.

Server

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

💻 Contribute

Translations

If you are a native speaker, help us translate Trilium by heading over to our Weblate page.

Here's the language coverage we have so far:

Code

Download the repository, install dependencies using pnpm and then run the server (available at http://localhost:8080):

git clone https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium.git
cd Trilium
pnpm install
pnpm run server:start

Documentation

Download the repository, install dependencies using pnpm and then run the environment required to edit the documentation:

git clone https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium.git
cd Trilium
pnpm install
pnpm edit-docs:edit-docs

Building the Executable

Download the repository, install dependencies using pnpm and then build the desktop app for Windows:

git clone https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium.git
cd Trilium
pnpm install
pnpm run --filter desktop electron-forge:make --arch=x64 --platform=win32

For more details, see the development docs.

Developer Documentation

Please view the documentation guide for details. If you have more questions, feel free to reach out via the links described in the "Discuss with us" section above.

👏 Shoutouts

• zadam for the original concept and implementation of the application.
• Larsa for designing the application icon.
• nriver for his work on internationalization.
• Thomas Frei for his original work on the Canvas.
• antoniotejada for the original syntax highlight widget.
• Dosu for providing us with the automated responses to GitHub issues and discussions.
• Tabler Icons for the system tray icons.

Trilium would not be possible without the technologies behind it:

• CKEditor 5 - the visual editor behind text notes. We are grateful for being offered a set of the premium features.
• CodeMirror - code editor with support for huge amount of languages.
• Excalidraw - the infinite whiteboard used in Canvas notes.
• Mind Elixir - providing the mind map functionality.
• Leaflet - for rendering geographical maps.
• Tabulator - for the interactive table used in collections.
• FancyTree - feature-rich tree library without real competition.
• jsPlumb - visual connectivity library. Used in relation maps and link maps

🤝 Support

Trilium is built and maintained with hundreds of hours of work. Your support keeps it open-source, improves features, and covers costs such as hosting.

Consider supporting the main developer (eliandoran) of the application via:

• GitHub Sponsors
• PayPal
• Buy Me a Coffee

🔑 License

Copyright 2017-2025 zadam, Elian Doran, and other contributors

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.