SiYuan
★ 46.7kA self-hosted alternative to Notion, Evernote, Onenote, Obsidian
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid3 Containers — 3 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · Package · Binary6+ active committers (12mo)
About
SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system designed around privacy and local control. It targets individuals who want to organize notes and knowledge using block-based editing, fine-grained...
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Features
- block-level reference
- two-way links
- custom attributes
- SQL query embed
- Markdown WYSIWYG
- block-style editor
- web clipping
- PDF annotation
- flashcard spaced repetition
- community marketplace
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- Created
- Aug 30, 2020
- Install Methods
- dockerpackage-managerbinary
- Requirements
- OpenAI API (for AI writing and Q/A chat)Tesseract OCR
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerGo
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- Deployment
Deployment: Single container (docker run)3 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 3 containers
Docker Deployment
3 containers (docker run)
no resource limits declared
scanned Jun 4, 2026
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