Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI wish somebody would write a good comparative review of all the note-taking, information organization and outlining apps... I'm in constant search of the one that would actually suit my preferences. Perhaps this is the one (but chances are it's not). Let's take a look...
I've been singing the praises of this app every chance I get.. it's really pretty much perfect. * Free (beer/speech) * Self-hostable, including the sync server, which doubles as a web-accessible version of the app (++mobile access!) * 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.) * Encryptable (built in encrypted notes function) * Syntax highlighting for…
I'm on this train too (personal data store collection over time) but I have to write it myself. The thing I've been thinking about is the unified storage. I have e2e encryption exp (slows search), generally sql, guess can't beat that just sql. I also want to infer content on random old hard drives since I have a couple that are years old (different mindset back then). Working on a lazy s3 upload by directory structure. Also it's funny "make…
Thank you for many screenshots.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 652
- Total comments
- 227
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-30 | Trilium Notes – new open source note taking application | The_Colonel | 6 | 0 |
| 2018-11-30 | Trilium Notes – scriptable note taking application | pplonski86 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-01-06 | Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking applicationFirst breakout · Best thread | The_Colonel | 328 | 124 |
| 2019-01-08 | Trilium Notes: hierarchical note taking application | ingve | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-28 | Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base | en3r0 | 233 | 78 |
| 2021-10-02 | Trilium Notes | Wingy | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-28 | Zadam/trilium: Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes | nkjoep | 3 | 1 |
| 2022-02-11 | Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes | axiomdata316 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022-07-17 | Trilium Notes: note taking application for large personal knowledge basesLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 71 | 24 |