Treehouse
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The facts
Each one read from Treehouse's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The project describes itself as a frontend toolkit for people building their own note-taking app.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Optional pluggable authentication can use cloud platforms or company authentication.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Backend options
- The project includes several backend options and allows users to build their own for different scenarios and requirements.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Community
- The repository points to live development streams, devlog updates, and GitHub discussions.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Custom backends
- Developers can implement backend adapters for storage, search, and optional authentication.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Daily notes
- Quick Add puts a note in the current day’s Calendar entry.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Developer stack
- Treehouse is written in TypeScript and uses Deno as its toolchain; the developer guide says it avoids Node.js and NPM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Development status
- Treehouse is in early development; the site links to release 0.7.0.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Fields and search views
- Fields add metadata, and Smart Nodes can create automatically updating searches using field values.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Fields and Smart Nodes
- Users can add metadata and create custom search views.checked 13 Oct 2026
- GitHub visibility
- The user guide says Treehouse creates a public .treehouse.sh repository for GitHub storage, which users can make private in GitHub.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- GitHubchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Intended use
- The repository describes Treehouse as a bring-your-own-backend Tana-style frontend and frontend toolkit for a note-taking app.checked 13 Oct 2026
- License
- The project's GitHub repository identifies its license as MIT.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Local development
- The site describes cloning the Git repository and running a local development server with Deno.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Outline editor
- Treehouse organizes notes as nested nodes in an outline.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Treehouse is an open-source, customizable note-taking frontend that can use a built-in backend or a backend you provide.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Quick Add and Daily Notes
- The product supports quickly adding notes organized by date.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Search
- Treehouse includes full-text search that can be extended with a custom indexer, including results from external tools.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Storage
- The site says data can be stored on the filesystem or in the cloud.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Storage options
- The documented built-in adapters store data in browser localStorage or in a GitHub-hosted repository.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- webchecked 20 Sep 2026
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