Markdown notes that stay plain files you own.

Pocket Notes is a notes server with a rich editor, full-text search, tags, backlinks, daily notes and a history of every change. Your notes stay ordinary .md files in folders: on the server, in Nextcloud or Pocket Files, on any WebDAV server, or in a folder you choose. It speaks the Nextcloud Notes API, so those apps work with it too.

Get it on GitHub How to run it

Included in Pocket Box
Sign in with Pocket Core
Works with Nextcloud Notes and WebDAV

A travel note on an iPhone with a day-by-day plan, a checklist with due dates and a tip callout

Writing

Edit as it reads, keep it as Markdown.

Folders, tags and pinned notes on the left, the note on the right. Tasks, headings and Mermaid diagrams render as you type, and the plain Markdown source is one click away.

Pocket Notes with folders and tags, the note list, and a server plan with a to-do list and a flowchart

Blocks

Type / for anything.

A slash at the start of a line opens every block the editor knows, from task lists and headings to tables, code, callouts and diagrams.

Code in 20 languages, formulas, footnotes and a table of contents
[[ links another note, with backlinks on every note
Templates and dates like @today

The slash menu open in a note, listing text, task list, three heading sizes and bullet list

Tasks

Every checkbox in one list.

Tasks from all your notes are gathered by due date: overdue, upcoming and no date. Tick one off here and it is ticked in its note.

Give a task a date with 📅 2026-11-03 or due:2026-11-03
Each task links back to the note it came from

The Tasks page on an iPhone: one overdue task and five upcoming ones, each with its date and note

History

Every change, from any device.

Each saved state of a note is kept, whether it was written here, in Nextcloud Notes or in a text editor. See what changed since then and restore it in one click.

A trash that keeps deleted notes for 30 days
A save never overwrites someone else's edit, you choose

The history of a note, with a diff showing one changed line and one added task, and a Restore button

And the rest of it

Find it again
Full-text search with tag:, in:, is:fav, has:tasks and phrases, accents ignored. ⌘K finds a note by title as you type.
Daily notes and capture
A daily note in your own folder and format, a calendar of them, and quick capture into today's note from the sidebar, a Shortcut, Raycast or curl.
Reaches into your homelab
The / menu links photos from Immich, documents, contacts, drawings and Forgejo issues, and writes blocks from what your services know.
Share and export
Share a note as a read-only public link, with an end date if you like. Print to PDF, download .md or the whole folder as a zip, or import from Obsidian, Bear or Joplin.

Install

One container, one volume.

Start it, create the first account, then choose where your notes live in Settings, Storage. To keep using Nextcloud Notes alongside, pick Nextcloud and the folder Nextcloud Notes uses.

On a Pocket Box it is already installed and linked to Pocket Core.

Every setting in the README →

services:
  pocket-notes:
    image: ghcr.io/abjelosevic88/pocket-homelab-notes:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports: ["8080:8080"]
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/Berlin
      BASE_URL: https://notes.example.com
      SECURE_COOKIES: "true"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data

Markdown notes that stay plain files you own.

Edit as it reads, keep it as Markdown.

Type / for anything.

Every checkbox in one list.

Every change, from any device.

And the rest of it

Find it again

Daily notes and capture

Reaches into your homelab

Share and export

One container, one volume.

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