memEx
Structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 66 commits in the last 90 days.
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At a glance
memEx quick facts
- Health score
- 57/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2
- Last commit
- 5 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
memEx scores 57/100, #8 of 11 in Knowledge Management Tools: 66 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 2 stars add 1.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitLab API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
66 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 1.9 / 20
2 stars on GitLab (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 66
- Last 90 days
- 68
- Last 12 months
- 5 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 11 tools in Knowledge Management Tools by health , between LibreKB (#7) and Aleph (#9) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 2 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | gitlab.com/shibaobun/memex ↗ |
memEx vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with memEx (Knowledge Management Tools), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFFiNE Community Edition | 99 | 74k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| SiYuan | 99 | 47k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Atomic Server | 93 | 1.6k | MIT | today |
| LibreKB | 62 | 62 | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| memEx (this tool) | 57 | 2 | AGPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Aleph | 50 | 2.5k | MIT | 8 months ago |
memEx: common questions
Is memEx still maintained?
memEx had 66 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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