edgeever

EdgeEver

<b>An open-source, AI-native knowledge base & portable Evernote alternative</b>










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Key Features & Workflows

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; relying entirely on flat local file scanning causes noticeable cold-start and search lag once notes reach thousands or heavy plugins are loaded; 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.
• SiYuan & Block-based PKMs: Powerful with self-hosting support, but their granular "block-level" architecture imposes noticeable cognitive overhead for quick daily capture and continuous prose writing. Furthermore, they lack a true zero-cost serverless deployment tier, and multi-device sync relies on paid official subscriptions or paying extra to unlock S3/WebDAV sync features with your own storage.

EdgeEver fills this gap: The entire stack is open source, including sync and self-hosting. It keeps the three-pane layout you know, stays silky-smooth and lightweight even with 10,000+ notes, and ships native AI agents with zero-cost deployment.

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.

Key Features & Workflows

From multi-channel inspiration capture to deep visual expression and team collaboration, EdgeEver delivers frictionless, end-to-end workflows:

Universal Clipping & Media Storage

• Cross-Platform One-Click Clipping: Browser extension clips Xiaohongshu galleries, X (Twitter) posts & quotes, Zhihu Q&As, Reddit discussions, and GitHub repositories (deep adaptation for more platforms coming soon); one-click mobile system share clipping for photos and WeChat articles.
• WeChat Chat History Archiving: One-click complete transcript import on macOS via WeChat "Forward to Other Apps → EdgeEver", preserving participants, timestamps, quoted replies, and stickers, with images embedded and audio/video files saved as note attachments. See One-Click WeChat Chat History Archiving.
• Universal File Attachments & Client-Side Image Compression: Easily upload and attach PDFs, Office documents, archives, and multimedia files, safely handling up to 1 GiB attachments via chunked streaming; silent client-side image compression in the browser reduces screenshots and large images by 50%-90% for faster loading and minimal storage use.

Intelligent Visual Notes & Database Collaboration

• Visual Diagram Notes & Professional Infographics: Ditch external diagramming tools—prompt the companion AI assistant to generate interactive, editable mind maps, flowcharts & architecture diagrams (see Visual Diagram Notes Design Guide, with native Mermaid code block rendering); use the built-in template gallery to generate stylized, versatile infographics across all formats (timelines, comparisons, quadrant matrices, etc.) in-place.
• AI Multi-Dimensional Tables & Public Forms: Generate structured multi-dimensional tables for any business workflow (such as project tracking, content banks, and HR rosters) via natural language AI prompts, inferring tags, dates, and rich field types with sample rows; publish public online collection forms with one click without login requirements, syncing submitted responses in real time.
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