Trusty Notes

A secure cross-platform note-taking application. Features end-to-end encryption for cloud sync and a modern React frontend.

WebApp: https://trustynotes.app

Windows/Linux/Android Builds: https://github.com/toolworks-dev/trusty-notes/releases

Features

• 📝 Markdown editor with live preview
• 🔄 Secure cloud synchronization
• 🔐 End-to-end encryption
• 🌙 Dark/Light mode
• 💾 Automatic saving
• 🔍 Full-text search
• 📱 Cross-platform
• 💾 Import/Export functionality
• 🔒 Seed phrase-based encryption

To-Do

• Improved Sync
• Rich Text
• Browser Extension
• Attachments/Files (In Progress but working)
• Desktop Application
• Mobile Application

Client Self-Hosting

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Setup & Run

git clone https://github.com/toolworks-dev/trusty-notes
cd trusty-notes
docker compose up --build -d

Server Self-Hosting

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Setup

git clone https://github.com/toolworks-dev/trusty-notes
cd trusty-notes/server

Database

vim .env

MONGO_USERNAME=
MONGO_PASSWORD=

Run

docker compose up --build -d

Build Browser Extension

Requires

• Bun (https://bun.sh)

Build

bun install
./build-extension.sh

This Builds the Chrome and Firefox extensions and places them in the browser-extension/web-ext-artifacts directory. You can install the extension directly from the .zip in firefox, you must extract the .zip for chrome/chromium browsers and load the unpacked folder.

Build Desktop Application

Requires

• Bun (https://bun.sh)

Build

bun install
cd desktop
bun install
cd ..
bun run dist:linux // for linux
bun run dist:windows // for windows
bun run dist:all // for both

Builds are in desktop/dist-electron