Why Trilium?

I've been really disorganized with my notes. Being a tech guy, I've always wanted a location where I could just store text: whether it be configs, code, templates I have for job offers, corny 2000s pickup lines—look, I just want something to place the things I write on.

2023 was the year I started getting more and more organized. I'm an adult and I've decided that a little organization is in due. Then I had a problem: where do I organize all of my notes? Some obvious answers came into play:

Google Keep
Discord(???)
Apple Notes
Evernote
Microsoft OneNote

OK, so those are our contenders. Let's break those down:

Platform	Pros	Cons
Google Keep	Good-ish Android support OK website	Limited functionality when taking notes Limited organization capabilities Bro what if my account gets shut down 💀
Discord	Easy to access Notes can be organized in one Discord server	How do you even organize notes here? Bro what if my account gets shut down 💀
Apple Notes	Looks stylish Instagram-worthy	How tf do I open it on Linux, Windows, Android? Bro what if my account gets shut down 💀
Evernote	Green logo	Killed Linux support Bro what if my account gets shut down 💀
Microsoft OneNote	Good integration if you use Windows	I don't use Windows (anymore, despite using Windows Phone) Not going back there again Bro what if my account gets shut down 💀

So there is one glaring problem with all of those: they can shut down my account at any given moment. Plus, I don't control my data there. Since I'm a DevOps engineer who's looking to show more stuff on my portfolio and on LinkedIn, Trilium was the perfect project for me. I can maintain it via a Docker image, I can make backups of the folder via Restic, and I can host it on my domain via Cloudflare. It meets my needs and it's a good test of my skills.

Thus, here we are.

My Trillium instance is named “Time Variance Authority” because I think they're cool.