Software · Office & notes
Trilium Notes
Trilium Notes is a note-taking program, available on Linux: sync across devices, Markdown support and syntax highlighting.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
Trilium Notes is a note-taking program, available on Linux.
Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Flathub listing: sync across devices, Markdown support, syntax highlighting, full-text search, self-hosting on your own server, API for automation and integration, offline use.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Trilium Notes is an open-source note-taking and personal knowledge base app that runs locally or syncs with your server; also searched for as Trillium Notes.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Trilium Notes is an open-source note-taking and personal knowledge base app that runs locally or syncs with your server; also searched for as Trillium Notes.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Rich WYSIWYG note editing including e.g. tables, images and math with markdown autoformat” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “Support for editing notes with source code, including syntax highlighting” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “Fast and easy navigation between notes, full text search and note hoisting” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “Synchronization with self-hosted sync server” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “REST API for automation” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “AGPL-3.0 licensed No account needed Works offline” — official website, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of Trilium Notes is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- Commercial use allowed
About
Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note-taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. Features: Rich WYSIWYG note editing including e.g. tables, images and math with markdown autoformat Support for editing notes with source code, including syntax highlighting Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep tree A single note can be placed into multiple places in the tree (see cloning) 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 Synchronization with self-hosted sync server Sharing (publishing) notes to public internet Strong note encryption with per-note granularity Relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes Evernote and Markdown import & export Web Clipper for easy saving of web content REST API for automation
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
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- Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
- Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
- Last technical check: 5 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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