usememos/memos
★ 63,921 stars
Covered in week 2026-W20 · the 2026-05 report
Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking app that brings your everyday thoughts together in a personal timeline. Your data stays yours, and you choose what to keep private or share.
What memos is
Memos is a timeline for your notes, and it belongs to you. Write in Markdown, post in seconds, and choose who sees each memo: just you, the people you invite, or anyone with the link.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Notion Plus costs ten bucks a month. Memos does it all for free. It is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking app with 59,000 stars on GitHub. Write in plain Markdown, tag your notes, and filter everything instantly. Your data lives on your own server behind your own firewall, not on someone else's cloud. One Docker command and you are running your own private Notion that no company can ever take away from you. Star it if this saved you money.