I've tried lot of selfhosted note taking apps. A lot.

While Trillium is polished and efficient, I find that the PWA makes the UI hard to navigate and read. It deserves a real app, optimized for smaller screens.

I haven't really used obisidian as it is a bit overkill for my use case anyway. So not using trillium wasn't such a loss.

I ended up using bookstack for my knowledge base, and flatnotes for everyday note taking.

The name "Trillium" reminds me of the old multi-network instant messaging app, Trillian.

i thought this was an open source version of the messaging app at first and got a wave of nostalgia :(

There are many people enjoying Trillium, but considering the Obsidian sync concern i'd like to point out two more alternatives: SiYuan and Anytype. :)

Trillium is my personal choice for self-hosted notes. I haven't really had issues with using it on mobile, but I also just tend to put the stuff I think of when I'm out and about into a single note that I periodically go through and reorganize. It's been good to me so far, and it has all of the features I really need. If I need something fancier (or public-facing), I toss it in BookStack instead. Then again, I don't use either of them for business (mostly for tabletop RPG stuff and instructions to friends/family about using the other stuff I self-host), so if that's your application, I have no clue how it holds up.

Using it for a month actually, I like the idea of database-notes. And I use the sharing function a lot, because I wrote a lot of guides which I share with friends and colleagues. It just transfer a note into a website and now it replaced my wiki.js and my notes app.

What I miss is a cool app, but hey it's open source I don't complain.

Just FYI, if you rely in obsidian heyvily on the bidirectional linking feature then trillium will be a pain in the ass.

I've used trillium before. it was my main note taking app for a long while. It's a great app. Right out of the box, it has full markdown and whatever.

Does trillium support #Tags? That's a feature missing from most obsidian alternatives. To be honest, obsidian is the best note taking app as it seems for now, even if closed source sadly.

FWIW I use foam. It is a visual code extension so you piggyback on all Visual code features and extensions (e.g. git, md lint, etc). And I sync with my self hosted gitea. It doesn’t have a mobile app but I use obsidian with the obsidian git plugin

I was trying to find something with sync too, ended up working on building my own, federation doesn't work yet but tell me what you think. https://github.com/odama626/tasks

tasks-eight-dun.vercel.app/

Is it better than writing in Markdown and slapping a static site generator on it if one wants a website?

Have you considered using Obsidian paired with Syncthing?

I keep my Obsidian notebook in Syncthing folders and find it works well enough across Windows and Android devices. The plugins transfer too. You would only have to trust the authors when setting up Obsidian for the first time after pointing to the right directory.

You will have conflicts with certain files if you open Obsidian on multiple devices at the same time. The note.md files should be preserved, which I think is what is really needed.