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6 alternatives to Trilium

triliumnext/trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes (38,468 stars, AGPL-3.0, ui, database, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from triliumnext/trilium itself (licence class: network-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1toeverything/affine7.4MIT73,768
2lfnovo/open-notebook7.3MIT40,442
3vectifyai/openkb6.9Apache-2.04,851
4glushchenko/fsnotes5.5MIT7,541
5agricidaniel/rustacean7.0MIT20
6vercel-labs/knowledge-agent-template4.8MIT1,079

The alternatives in detail

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