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 Simple note-taking for your everyday thoughts.

Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking app that brings your everyday thoughts together in a personal timeline. Your data stays yours, and you choose what to keep private or share.

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 About Memos

Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking app for your everyday thoughts.

- Everyday writing. A single sentence can be a whole memo, or you can take your time with a longer entry, using Markdown to give your words more structure.
- A personal timeline. Each memo stays with the day you wrote it, bringing your thoughts together in a timeline you can look back through. Tags connect related thoughts across those days, making it easy to pick up a topic again or find something you remember writing.
- Your own data. Your record lives on your own server, and your data stays yours.
- Sharing you control. You choose what stays private, what to share with family and friends, and what to publish on the web. In shared spaces, you can write alongside others while each person keeps their own memos.

 Quick start

With Docker installed, run:

bash
docker run -d \
  --name memos \
  -p 5230:5230 \
  -v ~/.memos:/var/opt/memos \
  neosmemo/memos:stable


Open http://localhost:5230 and create the first account. Everything Memos keeps is in ~/.memos, so back up that one folder.

Other ways to run Memos, including Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and a plain binary, are in the deployment guide.

 Upgrading

Releases are tagged YY.MM.N, with release candidates as YY.MM.N-rc.K and no v prefix. The Docker tag stable follows stable releases, a month tag such as 26.10 follows the newest stable release of that month, and canary follows development builds. Coming from a release before v0.31.0, run v0.31.0 once first; see the upgrade requirements.

 Around Memos

- Web Clipper for Chrome and Firefox saves pages, selections, and images to your memos as Markdown with a link to the source.
- Memogram is a Telegram bot that saves your messages and images to Memos.
- The API and MCP server connect Memos to your own scripts and AI tools.

 Sponsors


  
        
  


Sponsor Memos through GitHub Sponsors.

 Help and contributing

Questions go to the docs, Discord, or GitHub Discussions. Bugs and ideas go to issues. Code changes start with the contributing guide.

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 License

Memos is open source under the MIT License.

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

Memos 26.11.0 fixes typing Japanese and Korean in Safari and makes attachment failures visible instead of opaque. The server cache and upgrades from v0.31 deployment files are also more reliable.

 Fixes and polish

 Editor: Typing Japanese or Korean in Safari no longer selects the first word of a new line while the input method is composing. (editor 26.11.0, 6517)
 Attachments: When an attachment cannot be read, the server answers with a JSON error instead of labelling it as the file's own type, so a PDF that fails to load no longer reaches the browser's viewer as a broken document. Missing l