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Blinko

Open-source alternative toEEvernote OObsidian

Blinko is a self-hosted AI note-taking app for quickly capturing ideas as Markdown text, organizing them, and retrieving them with natural-language search.

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Last 7 days

10,872

HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseGPL-3.0

LanguageTypeScript

Last commitAug 3, 2026

Latest releaseJun 20, 2026

Release frequency21 per month

Contributors74

Stars10,872

Forks770

Issues410

What it does

Blinko is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI note-taking application focused on quickly capturing fleeting thoughts and ideas. Users can store plain-text notes with full Markdown support, organize their material, and retrieve notes through AI-powered retrieval-augmented generation and natural-language queries.

The project documents multi-platform support through Tauri for macOS, Windows, Android, and Linux, with data kept in the user's self-hosted environment. It provides a Docker-based installation path through an install script and also links to a hosted deployment option through PikaPods. The supplied README does not document web clipping, multimedia note capture, shared editing, tasks, calendar links, or transcription.

Capabilities

#Connected note vault creation

#Local data storage

#Graph and full-text search

#Cross-device multimedia note capture and retrieval

#Advanced and AI-powered search

Categories

#Document Collaboration #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #File Sync & Storage #Calendars & Scheduling #Task Management

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