Memos

Memos is a self-hosted notes app built around quick capture. Open it, type, hit enter. The interface is a timeline instead of a folder tree, closer to a private Twitter than a wiki. Markdown, tags, image uploads, and both REST and gRPC APIs, all MIT licensed.

The paid tiers are gone. Memos used to sell managed hosting at $4.99 and $9.99 a month; the pricing page now says there is one codebase and no ladder of Free, Pro, and Enterprise editions. Your only costs are the box it runs on and your backups.

Setup is a single docker run with a volume mount. SQLite by default, Postgres or MySQL if you want them. It idles around 30 to 50MB of RAM, and backing up means copying a file. Solo: the sweet spot. Small teams: fine for shared scratch notes. Medium and large: run it beside real documentation, not instead of it.

The catch: capture is not organization. No backlinks, no graph, no hierarchy, and search gets thin once you are a few thousand notes deep. laurent22/joplin gives you notebooks and sync, and outline/outline is what you reach for when the team actually needs a wiki.