Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?

I built it because Notion is way too slow. I loved Obsidian, but I wanted it to be multi-player so my whole team could use it. It is fast, open, and self-hostable.

It meets all the criteria you listed except the mobile app. Mobile app will be out next week. I'd happy to build any other features you need. Just let me know at k@hyperclast.com :-)

Trillium - https://triliumnotes.org/

Joplin - https://joplinapp.org

I personally use Flatnotes - https://github.com/Dullage/flatnotes with a connected git repository, but this does not meet your requirements.

Has everything you want I think with plugins to do a ton more while still essentially being just Markdown.

So for many years it's been orgmode in emacs. Not exactly a wiki, but you can treat it as such. As they are "just text files", you can treat them as that and many things become simpler. Difficult to share with non-emacs users is probably the only downside.

It stores pages in a database, but you could export them in markdown. Web interface is mobile friendly, essentially an app.

- "mobile app" means "its web interface"

- "backed up" means to wherever you upload/sync your backups to

- No automagic table calculation support.

Also Logseq worth it.

it’s in icloud so i can use it anywhere.

It meets all your requirements. Markdown interop is very good. Always backed up and in sync. Supports offline access. Really easy to export everything if you really need to.

Checks all of your boxes:

   - Backed up to cloud 
   - Has a mobile app that is easy to make small changes 
   - Simple file format like markdown 
   - Option to export data out as a backup  (it's just markdown files, you don't even need to export, just copy them. Or export to PDF)
   - Allow uploading arbitrary files like PDFs, images, receipts etc...  (https://obsidian.md/help/file-formats)
   - Nice to have: support for inline tables of data with simple calculations/sorting