orimora·

orimora

a quiet place for the things you learn.

AGPLv3-or-later · self-hosted · made in Germany

Open the notebook
for solo writers for teams for the long now
01

Chapter one

Today, you start writing things down.

Orimora is a place to put the things you learn. Not an archive — a place where what you've written can grow, change, and reach the people it should reach. Today, you start writing things down.

It doesn't look like much yet. That's the point.

Knowledge is not an archive. It lives.
02

Chapter two

A quiet hour later.

You can write in Markdown, or in plain text, or just in long thoughts. Orimora doesn't make a fuss about it — the page stays out of your way, the words stay yours. The editor knows about headings, links, code, tables, and footnotes. That's it. That's the whole list.

The page you're reading right now is one. Open it, type in it, save it. It will be here tomorrow.

03

Chapter three

You connect what you already have.

Your notes are already somewhere. Obsidian. VS Code. A Git repo. Orimora doesn't ask you to move them — it reaches in, reads, and links, and your existing files stay exactly where they are.

And if you want to talk to it from somewhere new, it speaks the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can read and write your notes for you. Off by default. Opt-in. We mean it.

Obsidian vault
VS Code + Markdown
Git repository
Any MCP client
04

Chapter four

Then one day, you find an old thought you forgot.

You type a word. Orimora finds the note you wrote in March 2024. You read it for a minute, and you remember why you were thinking about that in the first place. The thought is yours again.

Search goes through everything you've written, not just titles. It works in German, English, and the language you happen to be thinking in.

notes/2024-03-12-kaizen.md
opened with "I keep coming back to the question of..." — 1 match found
05

Chapter five

You share it with one person.

Then another. Then a team. The page becomes a place where more than one mind can think at once. The cursor blinks in two places. A comment appears in the margin. It's a quieter kind of conversation than chat — it lives in the document.

// docs/strategy-q3.md · lina is typing
the Kaizen score idea is from the journal notes
marco · 2 minutes ago
good catch — let me link that one in
06

Chapter six

And then, you open the doors.

We made Orimora open source. AGPLv3-or-later, with a CLA. The whole codebase is on Git. You can read it, change it, host it on a server in your basement, or on a Hetzner box in Falkenstein, or on a Raspberry Pi in the kitchen. Off by default. Opt-in. We mean it.

Germany · EU TypeScript · SvelteKit · PostgreSQL Docker · Coolify · bare metal Off by default. Opt-in.
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Chapter seven

Pages not yet written.

We're still writing. Here's what's coming next, in the order we're writing it.

live now

Core editor & document network

live now

Teams, comments, security

this year

Public API & integrations

someday

Mobile clients

08

Chapter eight

What it costs.

Every feature ships in the free edition. No feature gates. You can host Orimora yourself for free, forever, on whatever you have. If you want us to host it for you, or you want a team SLA, that's a conversation.

Open source

€0 / forever

Self-host. Every feature. Forever. AGPLv3-or-later.

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Chapter nine

Things people ask.

Yes. Self-hosted means self-hosted — files on disk, Postgres on your machine, no telemetry. The optional cloud features (AI suggestions, share links) are off until you turn them on.
Obsidian vaults: yes, directly. Notion: via Markdown export, with caveats on databases. Evernote: via the ENEX → Markdown path. We have importers for each.
Yes — German is the first language we built for. UI, docs, search, even the AI prompts (when opted in) are translated by humans, not machines. English and a few other languages work too.
AGPLv3-or-later, with a Contributor License Agreement. You can read every line, change every line, and run it for your team. If you change it and offer it as a service to others, the changes come back upstream.
For a personal notebook, yes. For a team, you'll want at least 2 GB of RAM and an SSD. The reference deployment is a single Docker container plus Postgres.
Wherever you put it. The reference deployment uses a Hetzner box in Falkenstein, Germany. The cloud-managed version stays in the EU, full stop. Nothing leaves the EU by default.
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Chapter ten

Add a page.

Every notebook starts empty. This is yours.

Open beta ships when it's ready · no marketing emails, ever

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