Memos

Notes/Docs

Lightweight, privacy-first note-taking with a quick-capture timeline.

Memos is a privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service built for quick capture: type a thought, add tags, and it lands in a timeline you can browse, search or view on a calendar. Notes are plain Markdown, can carry attachments and be shared publicly or kept private, and everything is stored in a single SQLite file by default. It is a minimal self-hosted alternative to Google Keep that runs happily on almost any hardware.

License

MIT

GitHub stars

63,593

Official website

https://usememos.com

Source code

https://github.com/usememos/memos

Compatibility

Architectures

amd64, arm64

Database

SQLite

Resource footprint

256 MB RAM · 1 CPU

Extremely light — a single Go binary that used only around 60 MB of RAM in our test LXC. Memory use stays small even with thousands of notes; attachments are the main thing that grows storage.

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Deployment

services:
  memos:
    image: neosmemo/memos:stable
    container_name: memos
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "5230:5230"
    volumes:
      - ./memos-data:/var/opt/memos

Alternative to

Google Keep, Apple Notes, Notion