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Blinko

Self-hosted personal note tool for capturing ideas

Notes & Knowledge Base ★ 11.1k stars Easy setup AGPL-3.0

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.

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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 11.1k GitHub stars

Is Blinko secure?

2 known vulnerabilities affect Blinko's latest release (1.8.8) according to OSV.dev; the most severe is rated high.

Affecting 1.8.8

AdvisorySeveritySummary
CVE-2026-85607HighBlinko 1.8.7 Cross-User AI Conversation Read and Write via message tRPC Router
CVE-2026-85624HighBlinko 1.8.7 Cross-User Private Note Disclosure via noteReferenceList
  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-108980, published 2026-10-12 (2 days ago), fixed in 1.8.8

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 75 · good

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