When comparing Wekan vs Trilium Notes, the Slant community recommends Trilium Notes for most people. In the question“What are the best open source cross-platform note taking apps for programmers?” Trilium Notes is ranked 3rd while Wekan is ranked 4th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Open source
Open source software benefits from collaborative development from the user community.
Pro Install with a few clicks with Cloudron or Yunohost
Making it really easy to self host.
Pro Easy to create instance on sandstorm.io
Wekan is available as an app on sandstorm.io. For personal use, it may be sufficient to run an instance in a free sandstorm account.
Pro Easy to install on most arm64, x86 and x64 linux systems
Pro Friendly support
Developers are very helpful and friendly.
Pro Clear UI/UX
Well-thought-out user interface – despite the high complexity of the functionality very intuitive.
Pro Can easily be integrated with NodeJS apps
Since it's built using Meteor, it can easily be integrated with existing NodeJS apps.
Pro Written in JavaScript
Pro Free and open source software
Pro Note encryption
Pro Excellent WYSIWYG interface
Pro Attributes that can be assigned to nodes and inherited
Pro Graph of node connectivity
Pro Note versioning
Pro Synchronization with a server
You can set up synchronization but you need a server to do this.
Pro Database storage rather than files
This enables the tool to do a lot of things that would be difficult with plain text file storage.
Pro Archival functionality
Cons
Con No print version of the ticket page
Con No desktop notifications
Con Interface can be confusing
There is a fair amount of flexibility to the interface but it can also become confusing, especially when some parts are not necessarily simple to use. Most of the basic features nevertheless are intuitive.
Con Database storage rather than files
This makes it a little less simple to work with (also has benefits).
Con Not markdown
It will import and export markdown but it does not store content as markdown. This isn't necessarily a problem if you don't need it.
Con Synchronization requires use of Trilium's sync server
This can be problematic to set up unless you have a web server that will support the requirements of this.