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EdgeEver: An open-source, AI-native knowledge base & portable Evernote alternative.

EdgeEver is a modern, open-source notes and knowledge base workspace. It revives the beloved Evernote-style three-pane layout while offering an open data architecture and seamless AI Agent integration for complete ownership and smart productivity.

Serverless & 100% Free Forever EdgeEver can run within Cloudflare's free quotas with no server purchase or VPS maintenance. Users who prefer a VPS, NAS, or home server can deploy the same application with Docker.

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Why EdgeEver

Many long-time Evernote users simply want a reliable, open, and fast personal knowledge base. However, existing mainstream solutions all present tradeoffs:

• Evernote: It has grown increasingly bloated with commercial ads and unnecessary features, degrading performance. Data export is cumbersome, free tiers are heavily restricted, and AI/MCP features require costly subscriptions.
• Obsidian: Open files, closed-source core. Official Sync is paid and third-party sync is tedious; storing images and attachments alongside notes quickly bloats vaults, making mobile sync sluggish and leaving orphaned files behind; and it is overly heavy for lightweight, capture-anywhere use.
• Memos & Stream Notes: Clean and simple, but their social-timeline layouts differ fundamentally from the structured productivity of a classic three-pane workflow.

EdgeEver fills this gap: The entire stack is open source, including sync and self-hosting. It keeps the three-pane layout you know, with native AI agents and zero-cost deployment.

Recommended Workflow: Capture inspiration seamlessly across all devices and organize deeply in the classic three-pane view. Powered by native MCP, it not only lets AI agents retrieve and synthesize your knowledge, but also connects with your favorite productivity tools like Notion and Feishu. Publish anywhere with one-click formatting—100% self-hosted at zero cost, building an open and truly owned second brain.

Online Demo

• Demo: https://demo.edgeever.org

The public demo resets every day at 3:00 AM (China Standard Time) and restores sample notes. Do not store private content there.

Client Downloads

           

The iOS app requires an Apple ID from outside mainland China.

Features

• Deploy Your Way: Run on Cloudflare's free serverless platform or with Docker on a VPS, NAS, or home server. Based on Cloudflare's free storage allowances, a personal deployment can hold roughly 150,000 short notes and 50,000 images; Docker storage scales on demand to easily support millions of notes and a vast image library.
• Open Data, No Vendor Lock-in: Built on standard SQLite with complete REST API, MCP, and CLI access. Your knowledge is stored transparently and accessible anytime without being locked to a single app.
• Lossless ZIP Backup & Portability: Export your complete library as a clean archive containing Markdown, Front Matter, nested folders, relative attachment links, and version histories for instant restoration anywhere.
• Native AI Agent Synergy: Deep integration with Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity to read, organize, and summarize your notes, or sync seamlessly with Notion and Feishu Bitable.
• Bring Your Own AI Models: Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini-compatible services and third-party API relays to empower your editor with smart note summarization, key point extraction, proofreading, translation, and text continuation on full notes or selected text.
• Rich Plugin API: Extend EdgeEver with the Plugin API.
• Unlimited Multi-Device Sync: No commercial device caps or paywalls. Enjoy seamless synchronization across PC, tablet, and mobile via web, PWA, or browser.
• Classic Three-Pane Layout & Focus Mode: Clean navigation featuring notebook trees, note lists, and an expansive editor, with a desktop focus mode to eliminate distractions.
• Unlimited Nested Notebooks: Organize your knowledge with arbitrary folder depth.
• One-Click Rich Copy for Newsletters & Blogs: Designed for creators to convert notes into beautifully formatted rich text with inline CSS, ready to paste directly into Substack, Medium, WordPress, or newsletter editors without extra tools.
• Seamless Dual-View Editor: Switch effortlessly between intuitive rich text editing and Markdown source code on desktop.
• Convenient Single-Note Export: Export the current note directly as Markdown, HTML, or PDF for standalone storage, sharing, or publishing.
• Native Mermaid Diagram Rendering: Render clear flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and mind maps directly in notes, preserving clean, editable source code across Markdown and rich text views.
• Visual Diagram Notes: Create and edit mind maps, flowcharts, and architecture diagrams on Web and desktop with semantic components, system boundaries, labeled connections, automatic layout, revision history, and PNG/SVG export. The Android and iOS apps preserve the same diagram data and render a semantic read-only view. See the visual diagram notes design.
• Revision History: Inspect and restore previous iterations of your notes with built-in version tracking.
• Public Note Sharing: Share a note publicly and stop sharing it at any time. Optionally protect the link with an auto-generated access password.
• WeChat Article Clipping on Mobile: Share a WeChat Official Account article to EdgeEver on your phone to extract its content and save it as an editable note.
• Smart Local Image Compression: Client-side WebP compression reduces file sizes by 50%-90% before uploading, saving storage and speeding up page loads without extra server costs.
• Universal File Attachments: Attach and preview PDFs, Office documents, zip files, audio, and video directly within notes. Chunked uploads and streaming safely support files up to 1 GiB.
• Batch Operations & Flexible Sorting: Easily merge or relocate multiple notes, with drag-and-drop notebook reordering.
• Offline Drafts & Queueing: Draft and edit uninterrupted while offline; changes automatically sync once reconnected.
• Brute-Force Login Protection: Server-side account- and IP-based failed-login throttling with automatic cooldowns helps protect private notes against brute-force and password-spraying attacks.
• Multi-Tenant Account Isolation: Host multiple user accounts on a single instance with strictly partitioned spaces and clean admin account management.
• Everywhere You Need It: Available on the Web, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS; the Web Clipper supports Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

Deployment

Cloudflare is the recommended zero-server deployment. Docker is available for users who prefer a VPS, NAS, or home server.

For Cloudflare, choose either of the following online deployment options:

Option A: Deploy with an AI Agent (Recommended)

Copy the prompt below directly into an AI Agent (such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, workbuddy, Antigravity, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, etc.). During execution, if access to GitHub or Cloudflare is required, review the requested permissions and follow the prompts to authorize access.

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Detailed requirements: AI Agent Cloudflare Deployment.

Option B: Manual Online Deployment

Complete setup in 6 web steps:

1. Fork the Repository: Click Fork at the top right of GitHub to fork EdgeEver into your personal account.
2. Create Cloudflare Resources: Create D1 edgeever and R2 edgeever-resources.
3. Import & Configure the Project: Import the Fork into Cloudflare Workers & Pages and use main as the production branch. The deploy command creates the bindings; do not edit Fork files.
4. Set the Administrator Password: Add a Worker Secret named EDGE_EVER_AUTH_PASSWORD and set its value to your chosen administrator login password. Prefer a strong password of at least 32 characters that is unique to this instance.
5. Build & Verify: Start the initial build. Once deployed, confirm /api/health returns 200, then verify login with username admin and the configured password.
6. Enable Automatic Updates: Open the Fork's Actions tab, click I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them, then manually run Update deployed EdgeEver once so the Fork can automatically receive future EdgeEver features and fixes.

For full step-by-step instructions and configuration details, see the Online Deployment Guide.

Cloudflare R2 Activation: Although Cloudflare R2 offers a generous free storage allowance that note-taking workloads remain completely within, you must first activate an R2 subscription and add a payment method. Cloudflare officially supports UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, and other cards, as well as PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and other payment methods.

Option C: Docker on a VPS or NAS

Use the GitHub-hosted installer and the official GHCR image:

curl -fsSL https://edgeever.org/install.sh | bash

The command pulls the latest image, generates an administrator password, starts EdgeEver with Docker Compose, and schedules daily automatic updates.

The official EdgeEver container image is hosted on GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). Some network environments in mainland China may experience slow connections or timeouts. If the image cannot be pulled normally, configure an available network proxy or a trusted registry mirror before deployment. Users are responsible for evaluating the availability and security of third-party network and registry services.

See the Docker deployment guide for manual deployment and configuration.

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Multi-Account Login

Once deployed, a single instance supports multi-account login.

The instance administrator can create, disable, or reset member accounts in Profile -> User accounts. Each member gets a fully isolated personal workspace, including notebooks, notes, attachments, Trash, import/export, and MCP tokens.

Browser Web Clipper

The Web Clipper is officially published for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Install it from the store for your browser (Microsoft Edge users can install the Chrome Web Store version directly):

     

Community and Feedback

• Bugs, feature requests, and deployment issues: GitHub Issues
• Code contributions: read the Contribution Guide. If your Fork is also used to deploy EdgeEver, keep its main branch deployment-only. Create a separate branch from the official upstream/main for synchronization, development, and pull requests; do not develop on or Sync fork the deployment main.

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