I've been singing the praises of this app every chance I get.. it's really pretty much perfect.<p>* Free (beer/speech)<p>* Self-hostable, including the sync server, which doubles as a web-accessible version of the app (++mobile access!)<p>* Extensible (want UI elements that do things with your notes? Easy. Want to render graphs based on metadata you've entered? No problem. Your own metadata and tagging scheme? All built in.)<p>* Encryptable (built in encrypted notes function)<p>* Syntax highlighting for most languages you probably care about<p>* Exportable, no proprietary formats<p>* Notes can be written in markdown<p>* Truly cross-platform (Mac/Linux/Windows/Web)<p>The tiniest of gripes can be directed at things like requiring you to use a key combo to insert a link (rather than letting me, say, use some markdown and autocompleting it), but that's <i>minor</i>. This blows the Evernotes and the NValts and quite possibly even OrgMode out of the water.
I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords.<p>Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?
I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick.<p>My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've understood something I'll either write a blogpost or stream myself going through a library.<p>I would definitely appreciate the ability to search my old notes better since they got too long to efficiently parse a long time ago but this process lets me structure the really important concepts I learn without adding too much overhead when I'm just learning random stuff. I also expect my notes to outlast many knowledge base projects and part of the appeal of markdown to me is that it's probably gonna be around for a while.<p>I'm curious if any writers here have found personal knowledge bases to be worth the initial overhead.
I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends up happening with half the documents I write in Google docs. If that was an option, I think it'd be preferable to Google docs in every way (for me).
This looks pretty amazing, and something I have hoped would exist.<p>I wonder if it would make any sense to add Jupyter Notebook kind of functionality to these kinds of notes. It feels like super cool idea, but it may be too big feature to be realistic.
I have been using Trilium lately and I love it. What sold me completely is the sidebar sections "What Links Here" - my purposeful linking and "Similar Notes" - reminding me of what I may have forgotten.
Interesting! Tiddlywiki with all of it's plugins, tags, search amd markdown support is still preferable to me. It is even more crossplatform as it works locally in my Quest as well (termux webdav rb script)
Will give this a shot. Looks like a modern alternative to CherryTree. I find these hierarchical note taking apps useful for organising complex projects which usually require several levels deep of note organisation. I also use Joplin for general note taking and Google Keep for website resources. I'm set.
Been using Boostnote for the last few years. Boostnote's great, but it doesn't have note nesting / trees, so I figured I'd give Trilium a shot.<p>Downloaded Trilium, tried to type in a standard GFM Markdown fenced code block with a language identifier for syntax highlighting, and it kept converting it to a "Plain Text" block as soon as I typed the third backtick, making it unusable.<p>That's a hard blocker for me. I write Markdown all the time, and I don't want a pseudo-WYSIWYG editor mangling the Markdown I'm writing as I type it. I also need to be able to add code blocks, with highlighting, at any point in the middle of the notes I'm writing.
Is anyone reminded by this as kind of a smalltalk image?<p>I mean an environment that is self contained and can be modified?<p>I wished the authors would think of aspects like that: how to modify the system without restarting it or needing separate tools.<p>Sure it looks nice but in the end its a browser with some javascript libs glued together with sqllite or something?<p>Customization seems way to difficult , so the tool can do a bit of tiny things that seem nice for me but so many things that I don't need. The GUI seems very bloated for me.<p>Is this just me? Or are people generally happy with such GUIs?
While this is clearly aimed at personal use, I wonder if it could be extended to serve as a lab notebook for a small research group.<p>Storing time-stamped, signed Markdown notes with version control and with some hierarchy (daily notes, brainstorm ideas, versioned lab protocols etc.) would be great.<p>Right now I use on site GitLab & private GitHub repo, but for the not computer savvy users this seems to be too much. Ability to add images to documents using menus/mouse is crucial.
I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends up happening with half the documents I write in Google docs. If that was an option, I think it'd be preferable to Google docs in every way (for me).
I would love to explore someone else's library of notes. I really don't know how to take effective notes. When I start reading a new book I try to take notes but always end up just reading. The problem is that months after I can't remember much.
Another hierarchical note-taking tool slash knowledge base, though a bit more limited/opinionated and proprietary, is <a href="https://roamresearch.com/" rel="nofollow">https://roamresearch.com/</a>.