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Personal-knowledge-base projects on GitHub

Personal wikis and networked note systems.

As of , the most-starred Personal-knowledge-base projects on GitHub are Trilium (38.4K stars), foam (17.5K stars) and edgeever (2.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Personal-knowledge-base repositories with 59.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was Trilium, with +25 stars in a day.

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59.9KStars in total
+44Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+25

Trilium

TriliumNext/Trilium · ★ 38.4K

Trilium Notes is a free, open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note-taking app built for creating large personal knowledge bases.

+11

edgeever

tianma-if/edgeever · ★ 2.3K

EdgeEver is an open-source, AI-native knowledge base and notes app built as a portable Evernote alternative, with a classic three-pane layout and native AI/MCP agent integration.

+4

PrivacyNotes.app

LifetimeLabsDev/PrivacyNotes.app · ★ 537

PrivacyNotes is an end-to-end encrypted app for notes, tasks, a journal, a password vault, files and bookmarks, available for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and the browser. Instead of an email and password, you get a 12-word BIP-39 phrase that is both your identity and your encryption key, so there's no account for anyone to leak.

+2

foam

foambubble/foam · ★ 17.5K

Foam is a personal knowledge management and note-taking system built on top of Visual Studio Code and GitHub, letting you link markdown notes together, visualize them as a graph, and optionally publish them to the web.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · TriliumNext/Trilium

    Trilium

    Trilium Notes is a free, open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note-taking app built for creating large personal knowledge bases.

    38.4K
  2. #2 · foambubble/foam

    foam

    Foam is a personal knowledge management and note-taking system built on top of Visual Studio Code and GitHub, letting you link markdown notes together, visualize them as a graph, and optionally publish them to the web.

    17.5K
  3. #3 · tianma-if/edgeever

    edgeever

    EdgeEver is an open-source, AI-native knowledge base and notes app built as a portable Evernote alternative, with a classic three-pane layout and native AI/MCP agent integration.

    2.3K
  1. 4

    second-brain-os

    1.1Kundefined-ui/second-brain-os · HTML

    A knowledge base an AI agent builds and maintains for you, in plain markdown files you own: what you read, watch and save becomes linked wiki pages you can query. The repo holds the full guide, a starter vault, agent skills and scripts.

  2. 5

    PrivacyNotes.app

    537LifetimeLabsDev/PrivacyNotes.app · TypeScript

    PrivacyNotes is an end-to-end encrypted app for notes, tasks, a journal, a password vault, files and bookmarks, available for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and the browser. Instead of an email and password, you get a 12-word BIP-39 phrase that is both your identity and your encryption key, so there's no account for anyone to leak.

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