{"slug": "trilium", "name": "Trilium", "category": "notes", "category_name": "Notes and knowledge", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.303, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-11-24", "latest": "2026-10-27", "why": "You should look at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium. It's what I use every day for the things that you mentioned.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "You should look at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium. It's what I use every day for the things that you mentioned.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/triliumnext/trilium", "official_url": "https://triliumnotes.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Trilium"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 804237859, "item_id": 50264866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264866", "by": "scblock", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "many of those either support markdown syntax in writing (e.g. Outline, Trilium)", "excerpt": "I used to use nvALT extensively, and I waited and waited for nvUltra to come out of beta, but it's been Coming Real Soon Now for more than 5 years, and I don't even use macOS as my primary OS anymore. Fortunately, we are spoiled for high quality note taking and knowledge management apps these days, and many of those either support markdown syntax in writing (e.g. Outline, Trilium) or are directly markdown based (Obsi", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notational Velocity and nvALT, classic macOS note-taking apps, are back"}, {"id": 782440400, "item_id": 48902525, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902525", "by": "ezst", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love being able to use Trilium \"as a website\" to check out my notes on other's (e.g. employer's) devices", "excerpt": "It can be both: I love being able to use Trilium \"as a website\" to check out my notes on other's (e.g. employer's) devices, and as a local first/fully offline/totally synced app during e.g. a flight trip or in case of an outage. 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