Note taking MCP servers

A server here writes, organizes or searches personal notes (Obsidian, Notion style).

Not here: AI assistant memory and team wikis.

307servers
128 remote179 localTagged by Odel's AI, which can make mistakes
By GitHub stars, at most two per publisher
  1. Number 1: Basic Memory@basicmachines-co/basic-memoryLocal-first knowledge management with bi-directional LLM sync via Markdown files.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.4,132 GitHub stars.
  2. Number 2: IWE@iwe-org/iweMarkdown knowledge base as agent memory. Runs against the notes directory it is started in.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1,755 GitHub stars.
  3. Number 3: SoloMD@zhitongblog/solomdRead and search a folder of Markdown notes: search, backlinks, tags, tasks, outlines, git history.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1,188 GitHub stars.

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209 made for this, ranked by starsRemoteLocal
  1. Obsidian @cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-serverRead, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.692 GitHub stars.
  2. DocsAgent — Zotero, Obsidian & Apple Notes MCP Server @docsagent/docsagentInstant, private access to your knowledge base: Zotero, Obsidian, Apple Notes (macOS).5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.625 GitHub stars.
  3. Joplin MCP Server @alondmnt/joplin-mcpFastMCP server exposing Joplin notes, notebooks, tags, and imports.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.173 GitHub stars.
  4. Mindbase @frankchu91/mindbaseLLM-maintained personal wiki: cross-references sources, flags contradictions. Local markdown.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.128 GitHub stars.
  5. Obsidian Hybrid Search @flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-searchSearch Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.110 GitHub stars.
  6. Silverbullet Ai @justyns/silverbullet-ai-mcpExposes silverbullet-ai tools from a SilverBullet space to MCP clients4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.106 GitHub stars.
  7. loci @ivenkoolab/lociCross-session memory and hybrid RAG over your notes and docs. Local-first, with cited answers.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.100 GitHub stars.
  8. Obsidian Vault MCP @luffysolution-svg/obsidian-vault-mcpLocal Zotero, MinerU, Obsidian literature workflow with transactional Analysis notes.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.93 GitHub stars.
  9. Enzyme @byenzyme/enzymeSemantic search and pattern discovery for Obsidian and markdown vaults.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.86 GitHub stars.
  10. Dabble Me Journal @parterburn/dabble-mePrivate journal MCP server to search, analyze, and create Dabble Me entries securely via OAuth.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; it needs your API key.80 GitHub stars.
  11. Bear @jkawamoto/mcp-bearA MCP server for interacting with Bear note-taking software.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.77 GitHub stars.
  12. Transcripted @r3dbars/transcriptedRead-only search over the meetings, dictations and writing saved by the Transcripted Mac app.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.75 GitHub stars.
  13. Workflowy @mholzen/workflowyCreate, update, complete nodes, search & replace with regex and dry run, usage reports, transforms4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from Docker.72 GitHub stars.
  14. Better Bear @kuvopllc/better-bearMCP server for Bear notes — read, search, create, edit, tag, and manage notes via CloudKit6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.66 GitHub stars.
  15. Lifeos @edrisranjbar/lifeosSelf-hosted life OS: habits, goals, tasks, finances and notes over a token-protected API.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.64 GitHub stars.
  16. Obsidian Sync @es617/obsidian-sync-mcpGive AI agents access to your Obsidian vault via local files or Self-hosted LiveSync.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.59 GitHub stars.
  17. Smart Connections @msdanyg/smart-connections-mcpLocal semantic search over Obsidian vaults via Smart Connections embeddings. Multi-vault, private.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.58 GitHub stars.
  18. Apple Notes @henilcalagiya/mcp-apple-notesMCP server for Apple Notes integration using AppleScript with full CRUD operations4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.52 GitHub stars.
  19. NeuroStack @raphasouthall/neurostackToken-efficient MCP memory for Markdown vaults. Tiered search, GraphRAG, AI memories.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.47 GitHub stars.
  20. Open Notebook @epochal-dev/open-notebookMCP server that wraps the Open Notebook API4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.46 GitHub stars.
  21. Caelune @ellismorrow/caelune-mcpRead-only local-first MCP server for private Markdown, PDF, and Tika-backed search on Windows.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.45 GitHub stars.

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