Write short memos without titles or folders. Find them later by search, tag, or date.
🗓️ Week 28 review
Shipped: v0.2 of the side project finally went out.
Learned: the single-file branch diff trick. Saves me daily.
Linked the memos below so future me can retrace the week. #weekly
Mia’s birthday: the pottery class downtown, not another gadget. #family
Before Friday #errands
📖 Reading: Deep Work
“Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”
Experiment for two weeks: no Slack or email before 11am. #reading/books
Sightglass Coffee, San Francisco
Memos stays open source with help from these sponsors.
Weekend read, bookmarking before I lose it. #reading/web
TIL you can diff a single file between branches, no checkout needed. #dev/til
git diff main..feature -- path/to/file.goWrite
Most memos are a line or two. When a thought needs more, the same memo takes a checklist, a photo, a place, or a link to another memo, and others can react and reply. Nothing to set up first.
Away from Memos? Save pages with the Web Clipper or send a message from Telegram.
Find
See a whole month at a glance. Every day shows what you wrote, and a click opens that day.
There are no folders to dig through. Every memo keeps its day and its place, so you can find it by when you wrote it, where you were, or what it says.
Own
docker run -d --name memos \ -p 5230:5230 \ -v ~/.memos/:/var/opt/memos \ neosmemo/memos:stableBefore you install
Yes. Memos is open-source software under the MIT license, with no license fee. Hosting may still cost money, depending on the hardware or provider you choose.
Yes. Run it with Docker on your server, NAS, or homelab; SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are supported.
Yes. You write memos in Markdown, including lists, code blocks, and checklists. Memos stores them in your instance’s database, and you can export your memos as a ZIP archive.
Choose Memos if you want to write short notes quickly and find them later by search, tag, or date, on a server you control. Compare the workflows that matter to you.
Memos are stored in the database of the Memos instance you use. New memos are private by default, and each memo’s visibility setting decides who can see it. Hosting and backups are managed by whoever runs the instance.
Start here
Run it yourself or try the public demo before choosing where your timeline will live.