Host Trilium Notes without installing anything
A tree of notes that does not buckle at ten thousand entries, where the same note can sit in several places without being copied.
Starting at €4.99/month
Introduction
Trilium Notes installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. A hierarchical personal knowledge base built for large volumes of notes: an unlimited tree, links between notes, relation maps and per-note encryption. 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. Trilium keeps everything in a single SQLite file, which makes it remarkably frugal: the application stays light even with ten thousand notes. Memory mostly goes to the full-text search index, which has to cover the whole tree, to drawing relation maps, and to synchronisation sessions with the desktop client, during which both sides compare their changes. Two gigabytes leave room for attachments and images pasted into notes.
People arrive here on leaving Evernote, on refusing to entrust personal notes to an online service, or looking for a server for a practice that has so far been local. The importer reads Evernote ENEX files, Markdown trees in a zip archive, OPML and HTML — and the export produces the same formats, so nothing is trapped. The Trilium desktop client syncs with this instance: you work offline on the train, and the merge happens when you reconnect. A web clipper extension finally lets you send a page or a selection straight into the tree.
What managed hosting changes
The same note in several places in the tree
Cloning is Trilium's distinctive trait: a note can appear both under "Dupont project" and under "Invoices 2026" without being duplicated. Edit one, you edit the other — it is the same note. That removes the impossible choice of the right folder.
Attributes that give behaviour
Every note carries labels and relations, inherited down the tree. A label can apply a template to all child notes, or feed a saved search that updates itself. Organising then stops being a manual chore.
Protected notes, encrypted separately
A note marked as protected is encrypted with a password different from the account one, and is only readable during a time-limited protected session. Credentials and medical notes can therefore live alongside the rest without being permanently readable.
A desktop client that synchronises
The desktop application keeps a full copy of the database and resynchronises with the server. You write with no network and find everything online afterwards; the hosted instance is the point of truth and the bridge between several computers.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A thesis and its five thousand notes
Reading notes, quotations, chapter drafts: the tree absorbs the volume, search finds a quotation from one word, and cloning makes the same note appear under both the author and the theme.
A consultant and their client files
One branch per client, dated meeting notes, and sensitive credentials kept in protected notes that stay encrypted the rest of the time. It all lives in one tool, reachable from a hotel room.
Fifteen years of Evernote notebooks
The ENEX export imports as it is, with attachments. That is often the trigger: the service changes its terms, and notes accumulated since 2010 have to go somewhere else without being retyped.
A developer and their code snippets
Code notes keep syntax highlighting and proper indentation, and sit next to text notes explaining why that snippet exists. The technical notebook finally replaces scattered files.
Writing that carries on offline
The desktop client works with no connection and realigns on return. A plain web page cannot do that, and it is decisive for anyone who takes notes while travelling.
Hosted in France
Personal notes describe your health, your finances and your ideas before they are public. Yours stay in our own datacentre in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves.
Frequently asked questions
Evernote exports to ENEX, which Trilium imports directly with attachments and dates. Notion and Obsidian produce Markdown: a zip archive containing the tree imports while keeping the folder hierarchy. In both cases, review tables and embedded images, the most fragile parts of any export. Internal links between notes often have to be recreated, unless the export wrote them as relative paths.
Any note, or any branch of the tree, exports to Markdown in a zip archive that preserves the hierarchy, to HTML, to OPML, or to Trilium's own archive format for a complete move. And since the database is a single SQLite file, taking a copy of it is enough to carry the whole thing away, structure and attributes included.
Trilium is built for one person: one instance, one account. It is not a team wiki — you can publish a note for reading, but you do not write together. Protected notes do not appear in search outside a protected session, which is deliberate but surprising at first. There is no official mobile app: the web interface works on a phone, mostly for reading. And development is now carried by a community team, after the original repository was retired — worth knowing before you put everything in it.
App Essentiel, at €4.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 2 GB of memory where the application asks for 768 MB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes. Trilium is free software: we host it, we do not own it. The database fits in a file you can take, and the Markdown exports guarantee your notes stay readable even without the software.