Notes apps are where people put the things they would never post: ideas, drafts, passwords they meant to move later, plans. Memos keeps that on a server you own, in a plain markdown timeline, and it is small enough that the hosting is an afterthought.
What you get
- Markdown notes in a timeline, with tags and a daily review
- A public profile page for the notes you decide to share
- The lightest app in the catalog: about 128 MB of memory and 1 GB of disk
- Offshore, no KYC, crypto billing, with an optional Tor address
Get it running
Any VPS will do
At 128 MB of memory this runs on the smallest offshore VPS with room to spare, so it pairs well with other services on the same machine.
Install it in one click
Install Memos from the catalog with a hostname such as notes.example.com. That domain becomes the canonical URL for shared notes and your profile page. See how one-click installs work.
Create your account straight away
Register as soon as it is up, before the address is anywhere else, and close signups if you are the only user.
Start writing
Use tags from the start, since they are what makes the timeline searchable months later.
Memos can publish individual notes and a profile page. On a public hostname, anything marked public is readable by anyone with the link and indexable by search engines. Check the visibility of a note before you paste anything into it you would not put on a website.
People put credentials in notes because it is convenient, and then they stay there in plain text. Keep secrets in a vault built for them, such as Vaultwarden, and keep your notes for notes.
A private journal has no reason to be reachable from the open internet. Memos can publish a Tor v3 .onion address instead of a public hostname, which keeps it out of scanning entirely. See how to publish a Tor .onion site.
It stores everything in a single database file, which makes backups trivial and losing it just as easy. Take on-demand backups and keep a copy off the server: see manage your VPS from chat.
Start now
Spin up an offshore VPS and install Memos from the catalog, or read the documentation.