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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access.

Any recommendations?

Edit: anybody using monicahq or has experience with it?

Clarification: indeed I could use a general note taking app for this task. I already host and use silverbullet for general notes and such. I am looking at something more focused on daily events and connections. Like noting people met, sport activities and feedbacks, names, places... So tagging and date would be central, but as well as connections to calendar and contacts, and who knows what else... So I want to explore existing more advanced, more specialized apps.

Edit2: I ended up with BookStack. MonicaHQ seems very nice but proved unable to install using containers. It would not obey APP_URL properly and would mess up constantly HTTP / HTTPS redirection. Community was unrepsonsive and apparently github issues are ignore lately. So i ditched MonicaHQ and switched to BookStack: installed in a breeze (again container) and a very simple NGINX setup just worked. I will be testing it out now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tried the demo, nice, but still mostly a note taking app. Seems easy to selfhost

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it isn't meant for others to see, what's wrong with a .txt file you just add notes to?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Organization, sorting, categorization... Indeed a TXT can do the job, but why limiting to that...

I already use silverbullet for general notes... But looking for something more targeted and specifically meant for diary tasks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Would Obsidian work for you? The notes are stored locally, and the software uses markup for formatting and stuff. You can get it synced to your phone with Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not really, I am not looking to a note taking app but a diary kind of app, quite different use case. Similar, but different feature set.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think there's an obsidian extension that allows you to basically save the notes in a github repository, making it cloud based kind of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Looks very promising, but its not self hosted? Looks more like an app / local webapp?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I would use obsidian, but for really self hosted I would try silverbullet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Already using silverbulled.md, but I want something more diary style and less just note taking (granted, just is an understatement for silverbullet)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I find Joplin cluncky and kinda slow. Also, it's storage is not plain MD even if the files are called .md

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