Trilium Is THE PERFECT Note Taking App and Editor!

[@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) .... 💖

[@Jims-Garage]

Great, I really like it.

[@keywal]

I appreciate that you showed the app in use - thank you! Will have to give it a whirl

[@Jims-Garage]

Great 👍

[@gnuPirate]

Love this review. Looking forward to going on my desktop soon and following this video through.

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, Chris. You too!

[@lucianogs]

Great video! I was looking for a tool like this for a long time.

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, I love it.

[@goodcitizen4587]

Very cool! Please do a BookStack video. Thanks!

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, it's been on the list for a while as I do use it.

[@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.

[@Jims-Garage]

I will amend that, I typically link it

[@imawsome6]

Glad I found this video. Spun up a docker container, added to my zero trust/Cloudflare, and I'm off to the races! Not I can take good notes from anywhere, and quickly navigate between them using the concept map. Canvas mode works great with the Galaxy S pen, except the pen button has no function, but that's not a big deal at all.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@imawsome6 thanks, glad you found it useful

[@Theghostrider2502]

Great content. Thanks 👌

[@Jims-Garage]

You're welcome! 😁

[@christopherklein3829]

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.

[@Jims-Garage]

I use it through the browser without an issue, but a bespoke app could certainly help. I guess Obsidian is a for profit company so they have more money for development.

[@Dreamwoodinternational]

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 .

[@Jims-Garage]

Agreed, it won't come close to One Note's integrations, Microsoft makes sure that stays exactly where it is. I actually enjoy using it for work.

[@LEGnewTube]

I’ve been using one note forever. Didn’t know I could save outlook emails to it! Wow that will be handy! Thanks!

[@timheymans3168]

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. 👍

[@majorgear1021]

I’m mostly interested in writing in markdown and being able to drag and drop images into my notes. It doesn’t seem that Trillium has either feature, which is a shame.

[@Jims-Garage]

It does both. Images are drag and drop, markdown just select it as the type.

[@Maisonier]

This is amazing! I don't like that Obsidian is closed. Can you use some LLM with Trilium to conect to your notes?

[@Jims-Garage]

Good question, I'm not sure...

[@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

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, I'll have to check out logsq.

[@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?

[@Jims-Garage]

Joplin is great, I used to use it but wanted something simpler in a web GUI. The mobile web interface means you don't need an app, which is great. There's a trilium chrome extension for web clipping. chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trilium-web-clipper/dfhgmnfclbebfobmblelddiejjcijbjm

[@occamsRazor496]

👍

[@mark-jin-10-xk1po]

I will definitely use this. Thank you!

[@Jims-Garage]

Great, it's an awesome tool.

[@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

[@Jims-Garage]

I agree, if you're already onboard and deep into onenote it's likely not an attractive proposition, furthered by onenote's integration with 365.

[@marcomoraschi3972]

your channel pop up so many time in reserch of my interest ... I can't not subscribe anymore. your videos are very usefoul and well done

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, really appreciate that

[@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.

[@Jims-Garage]

True, users would be a welcome addition. I have previously used bookstack, that was a good alternative.

[@basdfgwe]

@@Jims-Garage Just went to their repo and was surprised to see that it is in maintenance mode, I was gobsmacked. Hoping someone will fork and maintain.

[@thomaslyneborg9357]

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?

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, you need to create an external service for Traefik. Check their documentation, it's pretty straightforward

[@thomaslyneborg9357]

@@Jims-Garage Thanks for the quick reply, which is much appreciated Just before Christmas I restarted my linux home lab journey after several years of hibernation. my knowledge is a bit rusty, I will google around a bit but will probably have to come back and ask for a little hint a million thanks

[@jd5787]

Bummer it is now in maintenance mode 😔. Was looking at something free and powerful to replace Evernote and DS Note

[@Jims-Garage]

It's now taken on by the community. github.com/TriliumNext

[@jd5787]

@@Jims-Garage cool! Thanks for pointing this out to me ❤️👍👍👍

[@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.

[@Jims-Garage]

It can do a 'to do' list but I'm not sure if it's as advanced as that. Have a read of the docs.

[@blake-ow9mv]

@@Jims-Garage I don't think it can as well, I just wanted ask an expert like you. I saw this in notion can be very helpful for tracking progress, I wanted to see if it can be done in FOSS. Thank you quick response.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@blake-ow9mv I'll have a look at alternatives. I believe vikunja can do it

[@blake-ow9mv]

@@Jims-Garage Nice find man I will try this, I will need to docker for this one. Thanks.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@blake-ow9mv I have configs for both docker and kubernetes

[@artmanstudios7037]

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.

[@Jims-Garage]

Depends, it's for note taking. You can add TRILIUM_NO_UPLOAD_LIMIT but it's at your own risk

[@artmanstudios7037]

@@Jims-Garage Yeah that's why it sucks it's not meant for it! Where can I make this more like Joplin where you can just dump anything you want at it and it saves it locally on a folder anyway you want is it really that hard it's a great program this is a great program but that's the only thing that's kidding in the limitations it's right there man just when you think you have something good they have to go ahead and fuk it up with this shit. I really wanted to like this program but this is the only thing that's cleaning it for me I know someone on the line I'm going to regret wasting all my time with this as there are no small file size no more everything is in larger quantity these days you will hit a wall at some point you'll be like gosh sht now I got to look for another one

[@Jims-Garage]

@@artmanstudios7037 try bookstack

[@RamonSmits]

Not that many notes for someone using it for storing notes for 6 months

[@Jims-Garage]

Correct, at least on the surface. There's a handy hidden note plugin for those you don't want to share, plus I try to delete as soon as I no longer need it.

[@ShuAbLe]

Better to orginize the minimum amount needed to do work and produce something than organize to organize and end up just with an organization and nothing more.

[@viktorashistan7207]

@VideosByDefault trippin rn

[@Jims-Garage]

Enjoy the trip 😎