Blinko
Self-hosted personal note tool for capturing ideas
Blinko is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking application designed for quickly capturing thoughts and ideas as they occur. It stores notes with Markdown support and offers AI-assisted retrieval of past notes.
Key features
- Quick idea capture
- Markdown notes
- AI-powered retrieval
- Self-hosted privacy
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 11k GitHub stars
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