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Self-Hosting Trilium Notes: Hierarchical Note Taking

Trilium is a powerful note-taking app with tree-structured notes, scripting, and relation maps. A self-hosted alternative to Notion for personal knowledge management.

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What Is Trilium?


Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note-taking application. Notes are organized in a tree structure (like a file system), with powerful features like note cloning, scripting, and relation maps.


Key Features


Tree Structure

Notes organized in a tree hierarchy. A note can appear in multiple places (cloning) without duplication.


Rich Editor

WYSIWYG editor with formatting, code blocks, tables, images, and math equations.


Note Types

  • Text notes
  • Code notes (with syntax highlighting for 100+ languages)
  • Relation maps (visual connections between notes)
  • Book notes (long-form content)
  • Canvas notes (drawing)

    • Scripting

    Automate Trilium with JavaScript. Create custom buttons, background tasks, and dynamic content.


    Web Clipper

    Save web pages directly to Trilium from your browser.


    Sync

    Sync between desktop app and server instance.


    Deployment


    1. Deploy Trilium on TinyPod

    2. Access the web interface

    3. Start organizing your notes


    Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM.


    Best For


    Trilium excels at personal knowledge management (PKM). If you take lots of interconnected notes, Trilium's tree structure and relation maps are powerful tools for building a personal knowledge base.