Trilium: an awesome wiki-style note taking app

0:00 Intro
1:14 Installation
6:39 The app
7:43 First launch
9:24 Formatting
12:31 Internal links
14:20 A word on Zim wiki
16:17 Icons for notes and sub-notes
17:09 Deleting notes
17:32 Link maps and tree maps
19:50 Drawing
21:53 Diagrams
22:20 Journaling
23:10 Miscellaneous: tables, coding, math
25:09 Customizing the app: extensions and themes
26:09 Tweaks that I made
27:34 Creating your own theme
29:29 My black theme
32:11 Some thoughts on creating your own themes
34:03 Archiving notes / How to prevent your themes etc. from appearing in the notes tree
37:33 Encrypting notes
39:03 Encrypting a note and its sub-notes
40:00 Note versioning / snapshots
43:26 Disable versioning only on certain notes / sub-notes
45:07 Exploring Trilium further
46:30 Conclusion
47:35 Outro
GitHub - zadam/trilium: Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes: github.com/zadam/trilium
GitHub - Nriver/awesome-trilium: A collection of interesting Trilium Notes extensions. Including themes, widgets, scripts, API extensions, etc.: github.com/Nriver/awesome-tri...
Other apps mentioned in this video:
Zim - a desktop wiki: zim-wiki.org/
Joplin: joplinapp.org/
My black theme for Trilium: gist.github.com/linguisticmin...

[@adamshaw46]

This is the video I wanted, someone plainly sharing their user experience without hype or market, just their own interest, thank you!

[@mindfultechnology]

Thanks! Glad you liked the video!

[@joepriority]

Great overview of the program! It should be noted though that this app is now officially in maintenance mode. Unless some other person or organization takes it over the only changes users will see going forward are bug fixes, no more work will be done on evolving the feature set. For this reason Im already preparing to dump the database into a neutral format for migration to a different system. Im checking out the whats current in wiki apps I will probably move to wikimedia.

[@mindfultechnology]

Thanks! Yeah, this is a fair addition. I only noticed that the app was in maintenance mode after I already uploaded this video. I still think it's a great app, and even in its current state it's very valuable. I was thinking about using Wikimedia myself, but I found it way too complex for something like a personal wiki. And it doesn't have to be this way. I wish more notes apps implemented proper wiki features like Trilium does. I certainly hope that someone picks up the development.

[@zparihar]

We need more promotion of Trilium because the original developer has decided to go into maintenance mode (in January of 2024) because of lack of time and has invited others to fork it to help develop it out further.

[@mindfultechnology]

Yeah, I noticed that there was a message about that on GitHub. It's a great app, and I certainly hope that people keep working on it, and that the development continues.

[@GoldenBeholden]

It's nice that this one has a bare-bones mobile front-end if you don't mind the setup, but the reason I stay on Obsidian is primarily its first-class Android support with cross-platform extensions by default.

[@TheChadWork2001]

I don’t like how the developer has mixed politics with the software development. I support Ukrainian people but not their evil corrupt government. I love this software. I’ll donate to continue this software but not for war purposes where none of us are being told the truth.

[@GoldenBeholden]

@@TheChadWork2001 That's way above the pay grade of my comment, man.