memos

Memos is deliberately not a Notion replacement. It is a self-hosted, timeline-first capture tool — closer to a private microblog or a journaling feed than a workspace. The team is explicit that it is "not a workspace, not a second brain," and instead optimizes for quickly jotting a thought, tagging it, and moving on, with Markdown-native notes and optional tasks.

Memos is a single Go binary (with a React/TypeScript frontend) that runs from one Docker command: docker run -d --name memos -p 5230:5230 -v ~/.memos/:/var/opt/memos neosmemo/memos:stable. It supports SQLite for small installs, plus MySQL and PostgreSQL for production, and a one-liner curl | sh installer is also provided. Docker Compose, Kubernetes Helm charts, and source builds are documented at usememos.com/docs.

Memos is primarily a web app you self-host at http://your-host:5230, and it is intentionally lightweight enough to use from a phone browser. The project also ships an official browser web clipper to save pages, selections, and images directly to your instance, and the codebase exposes REST and gRPC APIs for community-built mobile and CLI clients.

Memos is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no paid feature gates or per-seat pricing, because you bring the infrastructure. The Docker image and the neosmemo/memos:stable tag are the supported deployment channels, and the only ongoing cost is the server you run it on — anywhere from a Raspberry Pi to a VPS.