Trilium Is THE PERFECT Note Taking App and Editor!

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Published 2023-10-03
Trilium is an awesome, self-hosted, open source note taking app and editor. Use it to take notes, code, organise data, and even preview webpages.

In this video I talk through the features, show you how to deploy it, and even give a quick overview of how to create various types of notes.

Trilium Docker Compose:
github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/tree/main/Trili…

Trillium Project:
github.com/zadam/trilium

Recommended Hardware: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/blob/main/Homel…

Discord: discord.gg/qW5vEBekz5
Twitter: twitter.com/jimsgarage_
Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Jims-Garage
GitHub: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage

00:00 - Introduction to Trilium
01:30 - Feature Overview
03:30 - Docker Compose Overview
06:26 - Web GUI & Note Creation
13:10 - Outro

All Comments (21)
  • @b00gi3
    Love this review. Looking forward to going on my desktop soon and following this video through.
  • @keywal
    I appreciate that you showed the app in use - thank you! Will have to give it a whirl
  • @lucianogs
    Great video! I was looking for a tool like this for a long time.
  • @Jarek.
    I'm deep down in this rabbit hole of chase for a Perfect Note Taking App™. Every quarter or so I'm experimenting with something new. And - despite of its downsides - Trilium is my fav one (for now) .... 💖
  • Wish you would have gone more into details about the Attributes feature... That's a really cool feature! And "possibly" makes Trilium an alternative for Notion and Coda. Also differences with Logseq – which seems to have a more or less identical feature set? – would have been interesting. All the same: good video. 👍
  • @webzterd
    I know it's a short Google away, but it would be good of you to directly link to the source repo too, to acknowledge those contributors.
  • @basdfgwe
    Yeah i was wondering when you would get to it. Its pretty awesome i have it for my notes, but i have slowly moved from note taking to knowledge management.... Trilium seems to kind of put one step in each side which makes it a little confusing. A couple of issues from trilium is that it doesnt have user management for homelab for a household. Ive started to look more at outline, im still using trilium for the time being till i test out outline.
  • @SamWhitlock
    This was a great review of Trillium! I think I'm still sticking with logseq because nothing else has come close to the usefulness of queries in datalog
  • Its a shame that there isn't a android app for mobile use/sync. And i am missing local ai support. Somehow I have the feeling that obsidian or logseq are developing faster. But primarily, I miss a mobile app.
  • Create video! thank you very much it is appreciated. How to set up the proxy network when Pihole and traefik runs on a different host in the same network?
  • If it was a 'drop in replacement' for Microsoft OneNote I wouldn't hesitate. I've already 'migrated' from Evernote to OneNote - not an easy job mind you. Probably a big ask for an Open-source project though, considering how well OneNote and Outlook are integrated. I save a lot of emails to OneNote, to avoid clogging my provider's mail server. I guess integration is generally 'a bridge too far' for Open-source apps .
  • @occamsRazor496
    Nice overview. Im currently using joplin which I really like but will give this a whirl. Shame there isn't an android app as this would make it truly functional across devices. Do you know if there's a web clipper?
  • @pcislocked
    It has some great features but ehh.... not really a good enough replacement for onenote in my use case - 3 years of (and counting) english literature lecture notes. My OneNote notebook almost eats up all of my free onedrive space at this point, so moving it by itself is already would be quite a chore. but even then I don't see the feature parity... looks like something great for those bits and pieces of information you want to keep at one place, or maybe for self-notes for complex projects so you don't get lost in your own work. has decent features tho
  • @blake-ow9mv
    Can I create todo list in trilium and measure the progress on weekly basis, like to make trilium calculate out 5 tasks per day the lets say I did 3 per day. So that means 5*7=35 per week and i did 3*7=21, can it give me a progress bar based on the tasks completed.
  • The file size limit on this Sucks only 250 MB that you can work with! That to me is the only thing killing this app and why I'm staying away from it somewhere down the line you're going to regret that.
  • @RamonSmits
    Not that many notes for someone using it for storing notes for 6 months