A private timeline for your thoughts. Self-hosted, Markdown-native, and built to stay out of your way.
Been staring at the same auth check copy-pasted across 9 handlers. Moving it to middleware. Should delete ~40 lines and finally make the codebase feel sane.
Token refresh is also duplicated in three places — same fix. Want to prototype this tonight before I forget the mental model.
Finally got it running on the Pi 4 gathering dust on my desk. One command, under 3 minutes. Data lives on the SD card. Nothing goes to the cloud.
Good stuff I actually want to read, not just stash and forget.
Sitting at the little café by Yoyogi Park. Ordered the wrong thing off the menu but it turned out great.
Finally deleted my Notion account this week. Everything's in Memos now, running on the old ThinkPad in the closet. Weirdly freeing — these notes are just mine, sitting on a machine I can touch.
One thing done well: capturing your thoughts without getting in the way.
Your notes live on your server, in your database, in plain Markdown. Zero telemetry, zero tracking.
Open Memos, type, done. No folder navigation, no template selection. Capture first, organize later.
Write in plain text that lasts. No proprietary formats, no vendor lock-in. Back up with a single file copy.
From a Raspberry Pi to your own cloud. A ~20MB Docker image, one command to deploy, running in under 5 minutes.
The code is yours as much as the notes are. 57K+ stars, 370+ contributors, built in the open.
Every feature. Every update. No paywalls, no tiers, no surprise fees. Self-hosting means no costs to pass on.
Developers, writers, self-hosters, and anyone who wants a faster way to save a thought.
Infrastructure docs & configs
Code snippets & debugging logs
Draft stories & capture ideas
Daily notes & idea trails
Project logs & ideas
Lecture notes & research
Confidential information
Shared notes & updates
Community-driven from day one. Every contributor shapes what Memos becomes.
A single Docker command gets you from zero to capturing thoughts.
One command to start your Memos server
docker run -d --name memos \
-p 5230:5230 \
-v ~/.memos/:/var/opt/memos \
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A browser-based scratchpad for when you just need to write something down. It stores locally and can sync to Memos when you are ready.
Deploy Memos in minutes. Capture thoughts in Markdown, on infrastructure you control.
