Home Lab Setup
Run Memos on your home server or NAS for personal and family notes.
All features
Memos feature
Run Memos yourself
Put your timeline of memos on hardware you choose and decide who can sign in, how, and what is public.
Run Memos on a server you choose, from a Raspberry Pi at home to a company server.
Docker
docker run -d --name memos \ -p 5230:5230 \ -v ~/.memos/:/var/opt/memos \ neosmemo/memos:stableBenefits
What changes when you use it.
Each point describes what current Memos releases do.
Your memos stay on the server you choose: a home server, a VPS, or company hardware
Decide whether people can sign up, and whether they sign in with a password or SSO
Choose whether anonymous visitors can read public memos, or keep the whole instance private
Run it behind the reverse proxy, HTTPS, and backups you already use
Upgrade on your own schedule; database migrations run automatically on startup
No hosted Memos account or cloud service is required
Use cases
Where it earns its place.
Small Team Deployment
Deploy on a small VPS or cloud instance for shared notes without extra service overhead.
Existing Infrastructure
Run Memos inside networks, identity providers, and backup routines you already manage.
Technical details
The implementation stays inspectable.
Docker and Docker Compose guides
Kubernetes deployment guide for existing clusters
Binary releases for Linux, macOS, and Windows
Works behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS termination
Start here
Start with one memo.
Install Memos on a server you choose, then explore the rest of the features.