triliage

A modern, native desktop client for Trilium Notes, built with Flutter.

Why

Trilium is a capable self-hosted note-taking app — full-text search, arbitrarily nested notes, revision history, attributes, encryption — exposed through a documented REST API (ETAPI). But its official client is the only client: a dated, Electron-derived UI with no real third-party alternatives.

triliage talks to any Trilium instance over ETAPI and gives it a UI built from scratch, independent of Trilium's own frontend code. The goal is a general-purpose client anyone running Trilium can use, not a single-user tool tied to one setup.

Status

Early scaffold. Toolchain verified (Flutter beta channel + Visual Studio 2026 Build Tools), builds and runs as a Windows desktop app. Feature work — ETAPI integration, note tree, search, rendering — not yet started.

Requirements

• Flutter SDK (beta channel — stable does not yet support the VS 2026 CMake generator on Windows; will move to stable once that support ships)
• Visual Studio Build Tools with the Desktop development with C++ workload (Windows target)
• A running Trilium instance with ETAPI enabled, and an ETAPI token

Running

flutter run -d windows

Building

flutter build windows

Produces build\windows\x64\runner\Release\triliage.exe.

Planned features

Core / connectivity

• ETAPI client (auth via token, base request/response handling)
• Multi-instance support (connect to more than one Trilium server, switch between them)
• Connection settings UI (server URL, token, test connection)

Browsing

• Note tree view (arbitrary nesting, multiple parents/clones)
• Breadcrumb / path navigation
• Recently viewed / recently updated notes
• Note attributes (labels/relations) view

Search

• Full-text search across notes
• Trilium search syntax support (attribute-based queries)
• Search result highlighting

Reading

• Markdown rendering
• Rich-text (HTML) note rendering
• Code block syntax highlighting
• Image and attachment rendering
• Internal note links (jump between linked notes)

Editing

• Create / edit / delete notes
• Markdown editing mode
• Note revision history browsing and rollback
• Attribute editing

Platform

• Windows desktop build
• macOS build
• Linux build
• Auto-update mechanism

Polish

• Light/dark theme
• Keyboard shortcuts / command palette
• Offline/cached reading mode

Contributing

Not yet accepting external contributions — still pre-alpha. Will open up once the core ETAPI client and basic browsing UI are working.

License

TBD.