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Taking Notes with Joplin
https://github.com/zadam/trilium#trilium-is-in-maintenance-m... above and beyond the license difference between the two (I'm not looking for trouble, I'm only saying they are different)
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French gov's open source alternative to Notion or Outline
It depends on what subset of Notion you use. Nothing (including Notion) is perfect for me. I'd like to build my own eventually, but I'm currently using Obsidian which doesn't hit your "works in the browser" requirement.
One option, which is open source and self hosted, is Trilium[sic], found at https://github.com/zadam/trilium It's open source, so if it's close to what you want, you might be able to adjust it to meet your needs.
Other commercial options include Realm, Tana, and Craft. With varying degrees of "AI".
I really like the UX of Tana for building out graphs of pages with properties, but it's slow to start up, doesn't support math, etc. So it's mainly a UX example for me.
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Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
I can also recommend Trilium Notes [1], which I have been happily using for years. It's currently in "maintenance mode", which I personally see as a feature (no risk of bloatware).
Self-hosted, great webapp, optional native clients and works offline.
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
- Patterns of personal knowledge base (2023)
- Trilium Transitions into Maintenance Mode
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Why I Like Obsidian
Tried Obsidian for a while, loved a lot about it, but....mmm.
Obsidian out of the box is a bit limited; plugins are great and add tons of features, but then you start hitting issues with plugin maintainers abandoning plugins you rely on, or needing to make a decision between three different plugins that all do the same thing slightly different. Depending on your use case and expectations that may not be a big deal, but I really missed not having what I personally saw as core features not being officially supported.
(Also, FWIW, the sync service is a bit pricy for what it is. I get that it's how they're trying to monetise it, but...I would have preferred another pricing model, even if the total cost was just as high.)
I've personally switched to Trilium Notes which I'm finding nicer. One element I particularly like is that it has first class suport for notes being able to exist at multiple places in a tree simultaneously. I know it's a very personal thing, but for me personally being able to file notes in multiple locations "clicks" in a way that tags didn't.
Trilium Notes: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
A nice writeup on ways to use Trilium (although much of it applies to Obsidian too): https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Patterns-of-personal-k...
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Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
Then you come across Trilium and drop the mic
[0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium
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Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers
I move between machines a lot and prefer an online tool; I'm self-hosting Trilium Notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium ; this looks a bit cleaner but without syncing (or server-side storage) it misses a bunch of potential use cases.
- Looking for a highlighting-notes-organized-storage app of some sort
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A note from our sponsor - Civic Auth
www.civic.com | 15 May 2025
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zadam/trilium is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Trilium Notes is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Trilium Notes is JavaScript.
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