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title: "Notarium Documentation"
description: "Notarium documentation: one knowledge base for people and AI agents — web editor, built-in MCP, full-text search, and version history in one container."
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# Notarium

Notarium is one knowledge base, equally open to people (web editor, REST) and to AI agents (a built-in MCP endpoint): an agent's edits are versioned, subject to the same access permissions, and carry a record of who made them — exactly like edits from the interface. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your own disk, and the base itself is linked and indexed: instead of being handed a wall of text, an agent retrieves the context it needs — through search and the graph. What sets Notarium apart: Markdown as the source of truth, people and agents over a single knowledge base, one-container self-hosting, full-text search with an optional semantic-search layer on top.

## In this section

- **Getting started** — run it, create your first note, connect an agent.
- **Concepts** — how Notarium is structured: file-first, spaces, the graph, search, versions, access.
- **Working in Notarium** — editor, navigation, search, dashboard, tags, keyboard shortcuts.
- **Import and export** — moving data in and out.
- **Agents and MCP** — calling tools, connecting, memory, audit, security.
- **Self-host** — installation, configuration, authentication, production.
- **Reference** — environment variables, keyboard shortcuts, glossary.
- **About** — license and roadmap: where the project is headed.