Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes - GitHub - zadam/trilium: Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
I've been using Obsidian for a long time. I enjoy it and all of its extensions. However setting up the app and syncthing on all of my systems gets irritating.
Any way, after a little looking around, I found Trillium notes. It doesn't quite have all the extensions, but is easier to setup. Give it a look, see what you think
I've tried lot of selfhosted note taking apps. A lot.
While Trillium is polished and efficient, I find that the PWA makes the UI hard to navigate and read. It deserves a real app, optimized for smaller screens.
I haven't really used obisidian as it is a bit overkill for my use case anyway. So not using trillium wasn't such a loss.
I ended up using bookstack for my knowledge base, and flatnotes for everyday note taking.
It deserves a real app, optimized for smaller screens.
A PWA can be optimized in the same way. For something like a note taking app, I don't really understand the benefit that a native app would provide over a PWA.
Siyuan is very nice. Might have a play with that one before I invest any more time with trillium. Any idea if it is completely free, I can see there are some pricing options, which worries me a little.
Trillium is my personal choice for self-hosted notes. I haven't really had issues with using it on mobile, but I also just tend to put the stuff I think of when I'm out and about into a single note that I periodically go through and reorganize. It's been good to me so far, and it has all of the features I really need. If I need something fancier (or public-facing), I toss it in BookStack instead. Then again, I don't use either of them for business (mostly for tabletop RPG stuff and instructions to friends/family about using the other stuff I self-host), so if that's your application, I have no clue how it holds up.
Using it for a month actually, I like the idea of database-notes. And I use the sharing function a lot, because I wrote a lot of guides which I share with friends and colleagues. It just transfer a note into a website and now it replaced my wiki.js and my notes app.
What I miss is a cool app, but hey it's open source I don't complain.
FWIW I use foam. It is a visual code extension so you piggyback on all Visual code features and extensions (e.g. git, md lint, etc). And I sync with my self hosted gitea. It doesn’t have a mobile app but I use obsidian with the obsidian git plugin
Does trillium support #Tags? That's a feature missing from most obsidian alternatives. To be honest, obsidian is the best note taking app as it seems for now, even if closed source sadly.
I love Logseq to bits but I wish self hosting it made more sense. Last I checked it still requires you to point it to a local folder even if you host it yourself and access it through the browser so it's kinda useless.
I deal with it because it's by far the best fit I've found for my workflow but I'm not crazy about having to set up Syncthing and install the app everywhere.
I was trying to find something with sync too, ended up working on building my own, federation doesn't work yet but tell me what you think. https://github.com/odama626/tasks
Take a loom siYuan, I ran it with docker. Went to it on my laptop and phone. As I was typing on one it was populating on the other, it also has a nice interface on mobile.
I'll take a look at yours too, love trying new things
Have you considered using Obsidian paired with Syncthing?
I keep my Obsidian notebook in Syncthing folders and find it works well enough across Windows and Android devices. The plugins transfer too. You would only have to trust the authors when setting up Obsidian for the first time after pointing to the right directory.
You will have conflicts with certain files if you open Obsidian on multiple devices at the same time. The note.md files should be preserved, which I think is what is really needed.