Document

Document is SQLite database which contains all notes, tree structure, metadata and most of the configuration.

Location

It's stored in single file, by default in trilium-data/document.db, where trilium-data is stored in:

• /home/[user]/.local/share for Linux
• C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming for Windows Vista and up
• /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support for Mac OS
• user's home is a fallback if some of the paths above don't exist
• user's home is also a default setup for docker

If you want to backup your Trilium data, just backup this single file - it contains everything you need.

Changing the location of the document

If you want to use some other location for the document than the default one, you may change it via TRILIUM_DATA_DIR environment variable to some other location, e.g.:

export TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/home/myuser/data/my-trilium-data

Demo document

When you run Trilium for the first time, it will generate a demo document for you as a starting point. It's also pretty useful for demonstration of some of Trilium's features, e.g.:

• Relation map
• Day notes
• Weight tracker
• Task manager
• Custom CSS theme Steel Blue

Restoring demo document

In some cases you might want to take a look at the demo document after you deleted it. Or you might want to see if there was something added (sometimes we add a new feature demonstration into demo document). In such case you can just download .tar archive of the latest document and import it somewhere into the tree (right click on a note where you want to import the demo document and choose "Import").