Blinko

Self-hosted personal note tool with AI retrieval over your notes (RAG)

What Blinko does

  • Self-hosted personal note tool with AI retrieval over your notes (RAG)
  • Lightweight card-style notes similar to flomo
  • Free and open source
  • Runs with your own model keys

Blinko — straight answers

What is Blinko?

Blinko is listed under AI Note-Taking & Docs, in the Productivity & Workflow category on Flocci AI Tools. Self-hosted personal note tool with AI retrieval over your notes (RAG). It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at blinko.space.

Is Blinko free?

Blinko is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Blinko do?

Blinko does 4 things the catalog singles out: Self-hosted personal note tool with ai retrieval over your notes (rag); lightweight card-style notes similar to flomo; free and open source; runs with your own model keys.

What is the best free alternative to Blinko?

AFFiNE is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Note-Taking & Docs sub-category and is free. Google AI Edge Eloquent, Karakeep and Khoj also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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