Many Notes is a Markdown note-taking web application designed for simplicity! Easily create or import your vaults and organize your thoughts right away.

It uses a database to power its features, but your files are also saved in the filesystem, giving you full control over your vault structure and ensuring easy access and portability.

Vaults are simply storage containers for your files, and Many Notes lets you choose to keep all your files in one vault or organize them into separate vaults.

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• Multiple users: Protect your files behind authentication
• Multiple vaults per user: Choose how to organize your files
• OAuth support: Authenticate using one of the many supported providers
• Collaboration: Invite other users to access your vaults
• Broadcasting: Real-time, live-updating user interfaces
• File search: Experience a fast and typo-tolerant search
• Tree view explorer: Fast navigation with relevant actions in the context menu
• Advanced Markdown editor: Write your Markdown notes faster
• Automatic saving: Focus on writing; saving is automatic
• Templates: Maintain consistent formatting for your notes
• Links/backlinks/tags: Improve note organization by connecting related notes
• Import/export vaults: Easily back up and restore your vaults
• Starter vault: Helps you get started with Many Notes
• Light/dark theme: Automatically selected based on your system settings
• Progressive Web App: Provides a native app-like experience

Choose your preferred method to install Many Notes:

• Docker with volumes, for a simpler installation (read below)
• Docker with bind mounts, for easy access to shared paths from the host (read here)
• Docker with a different database, if you prefer not to use SQLite (read here)

Read the upgrading guide if you are upgrading from a previous version.

Create a compose.yaml file with:

services:
  php:
    image: brufdev/many-notes:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - APP_URL=http://localhost # address used to access the application
    volumes:
      - database:/var/www/html/database/sqlite
      - logs:/var/www/html/storage/logs
      - private:/var/www/html/storage/app/private
      - typesense:/var/www/html/typesense
    ports:
      - 80:8080

volumes:
  database:
  logs:
  private:
  typesense:

Make sure to change the address used to access the application. Feel free to change anything else if you know what you're doing, and read the customization section below before continue. Then run:

docker compose up -d

To customize Many Notes, add environment variables to the compose.yaml file if using the Docker installation. If you chose the non-Docker installation, you should add the environment variables to the .env file instead.

If you change the default port from 80 or use a reverse proxy with a custom URL, make sure to configure the application URL accordingly. For example, if you change the port to 8080, add:

environment:
  - APP_URL=http://localhost:8080

Check all available timezones here. For example, if you want to set the timezone to Amsterdam, add:

environment:
  - APP_TIMEZONE=Europe/Amsterdam

Increase the upload size limit to allow for the import of larger files. For example, if you want to increase the limit to 1 GB, add:

environment:
  - PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=1G
  - PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILE_SIZE=1G

In case you want to disable registration for new users, add:

environment:
  - SETTINGS_REGISTRATION_ENABLED=false

Many Notes supports a convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers. Typically, these credentials may be retrieved by creating a "developer application" within the dashboard of the service you wish to use. Many Notes currently supports authentication via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Authelia, Authentik, Keycloak, and Zitadel. You can enable multiple providers simultaneously by adding the corresponding environment variables.

For example, to enable GitHub OAuth, add:

environment:
  - GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=CLIENT_ID # change id
  - GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=CLIENT_SECRET # change secret
  - GITHUB_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost/oauth/github/callback # change domain and provider

Authelia, Authentik, Keycloak, and Zitadel providers require additional configuration. Read the OAuth documentation for more information.

Configure an email service to send registration and password reset emails by adding:

environment:
  - MAIL_MAILER=smtp
  - MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
  - MAIL_PORT=2525
  - MAIL_USERNAME=null
  - MAIL_PASSWORD=null
  - MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
  - MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=hello@example.com
  - MAIL_FROM_NAME="Many Notes"

Read the FAQs to find the answers to the most common questions.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.