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🌳 Setup Trilium Notes — Self-Hosted Hierarchical Knowledge Base

Deploy TriliumNext Notes on Ubuntu with Docker — a powerful self-hosted hierarchical note-taking app with rich text editing, code blocks, note relations, and scripting.

⚠️ Always review any script before running it on your server. Test in a staging environment first.

📦 Resources & Setup Scripts

Before starting, please make sure to grab the required scripts from our GitHub repository to follow along with the video easily.

Automated install script — deploys TriliumNext Notes with persistent storage and a web UI on port 8080.
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Quick Install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/refs/heads/main/tools/trilium/trilium-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x trilium-ubuntu.sh
sudo bash trilium-ubuntu.sh

Tutorial Steps

1 Download the Script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/refs/heads/main/tools/trilium/trilium-ubuntu.sh

2 Make it Executable

chmod +x trilium-ubuntu.sh

3 Run the Installer

The script installs Docker if needed, creates the Trilium data directory, and deploys the triliumnext/notes:latest container.

sudo bash trilium-ubuntu.sh

4 Access the Web UI

Open your browser and navigate to the Trilium Notes setup wizard:

http://<your-server-ip>:8080

Ports Used

PortPurpose
8080Trilium Web UI + Sync Server API

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