Trilium Notes

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

Alternative to: evernote, onenote, notion

Trilium Notes (TriliumNext) is a free and open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note-taking application focused on building large personal knowledge bases. It offers a rich WYSIWYG editor, note encryption, scripting, relation/link maps, and synchronization across devices, and can be self-hosted as a server that you access from desktop, mobile, or browser clients. TriliumNext is the actively maintained community continuation of the original Trilium project.

Trilium Notes Docker Compose example

Self-host Trilium Notes on your own server, homelab, or VPS starting from this Docker Compose example. It runs Trilium Notes in Docker containers using the official triliumnext/trilium:latest image, with persistent volumes and automatic restarts preconfigured. Review the environment variables and adjust them to your setup, save the file as compose.yml (or docker-compose.yml), and start the stack with docker compose up -d.

services:
  trilium:
    image: triliumnext/trilium:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # Directory inside the container where Trilium stores its database and data.
      TRILIUM_DATA_DIR: "/home/node/trilium-data"
      # Timezone used for log timestamps.
      TZ: "UTC"
    volumes:
      - data:/home/node/trilium-data

volumes:
  data:

Prefer a managed setup? WinterFlow installs, configures, and updates Trilium Notes for you using this same Docker Compose configuration.