Host Memos without installing anything
A notebook where an idea lands in two seconds: Markdown, tags written inside the text, and a note that stays private or turns public.
Starting at €4.99/month
Introduction
Memos installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Essentiel at €4.99/month incl. VAT — 2 GB of memory. Memos is a Go program compiled into a single binary on a SQLite database: one of the leanest applications in the catalogue, and it starts in a second. 512 MB is amply enough; the 2 GB serve the attachments, the images pasted into notes and the search index once the notebook reaches several thousand entries.
It is worth knowing what Memos is not: there are no nested pages, no databases, no draggable blocks. A note, a date, some tags, and that is it. What is lost in structure is gained in speed: the writing box is the first thing on screen. Export gives you an archive of Markdown files, one per note, readable in any editor — and the Moe Memos mobile app, on iOS and Android alike, connects to your instance with a token.
What Memos does
Writing comes before everything else
The input box sits at the top of the page, ready. You type, you save, the note is dated and filed. No tree to choose before writing, which is precisely what makes people give up on more ambitious notebooks.
Tags are written inside the sentence
A word behind a hash, in the middle of the text, becomes a clickable tag. Filing therefore happens while writing, never afterwards — and search crosses tags, text and period.
Three levels of visibility, note by note
Private, visible to the instance's accounts, or public with its own address. The same application serves as a private journal and as a published notebook, without changing tool.
Phone, browser and scripts
The interface installs as an app, the third-party Moe Memos app connects to your instance with a token, the browser extension saves a selection, and the API accepts a note posted by a script.
Who uses it, and what for
A freelance keeping a work log
What was done, what got stuck, the client's sentence not to forget. Three lines a day, found again a year later through a tag when an invoice or a review has to be prepared.
A team recording its interventions
A shared operations log: who restarted what, at what time, and why. The dated stream replaces the message sent to the colleague who was not there.
Someone publishing notes in the open
Notes marked public form a stream readable at their address. A micro-blog without a platform, without an account to create in order to read you, and without an algorithm deciding the reach.
A student and their reading notes
One note per chapter, one tag per subject, the quotation pasted with its reference. When the essay comes, everything returns by tag instead of sleeping in a notebook.
A tradesperson writing on leaving a client
From the phone, in the van: the measurement taken, the part to order, the photo of the meter. By the evening it is already written down.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. A personal notebook holds the most intimate things you write: it has no business with a service that analyses them.
Frequently asked questions
No, and that is a design choice, not a gap to be filled. There are no nested pages, no databases, no blocks to drag: a dated stream and tags. Excellent for capturing, mediocre for organising a hundred-page manual. If you want a tree and structured documents, Trilium Notes or BookStack are the right tools.
Export produces an archive of Markdown files, one per note, with their dates — readable in any text editor, ten years from now included. The other direction is more hand-made: there is no ready-built import from Keep or Evernote, but the API accepts notes posted by script, which is enough to bring an existing export home if you are comfortable with a command line.
Yes. The interface installs as an app from the mobile browser, and the Moe Memos app, available on iOS and Android, connects to your instance with an access token: it adds sharing from other apps and a home-screen widget. The browser extension, for its part, saves the text selected on a page.
App Essentiel, at €4.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 2 GB of memory where the application asks for 512 MB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.