Trilium Notes (Database)

20 Jan, 2026

Trilium Notes is the first knowledge-managing application I use systematically, and it would be hard for me to move out of now. Although, to be clear, not because Trilium Notes holding my data as hostage (it stores information on local SQLite database, before you ask), but... it is kind of it stores information on local SQLite database.

I agree that storing everything on a flat file system would be better to ensure that I don't have to rely on Trilium Notes to access my note, but SQLite is probably good enough -- how likely is something happening to SQLite that doesn't happen on computers themselves?

And the tradeoff is pretty worth for me: ability to have notes holding other notes and ability to "clone" and placing one note in different locations on the "tree¹". No more "folder A" or "folder B" now, and it might creates some headaches when different OS handle hard-links differently².

Last Edit: 2026-01-20 04:20

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