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Joplin alternative needed (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hi guys! I think I'm over Joplin. Don't get me wrong, it's simple, it works, but… why is it Postgres db…. I have the server on a small box with like 250 GB of space and backing it up with kopia to Backblaze with free 10 GB, so I'm a bit storage cautious.

With each snapshot, it seems like a good chunk of the database changes, even when I don't use Joplin that day. That results in kopia backing up those changed files, and backups keep growing. Right now the Joplin database is like 200Mb, BUT when I export the notes from the app… all of them weigh 2Mb… including images. Yes there is versioning of notes, but they shouldn't be that big after one-two months lol.

I know I know, I'm being a bit weird about it, but I'm getting daily notifications about backups and I see how they grow each day.

Anyway, do you have any alternatives that have an app on iOS and on Linux? Or should I just use Apple Notes in the browser? Thanks

EDIT: The answer was easier than I thought. Just don’t back it up, it’s synced which means each device has a copy of it anyway so there is not really need for it, thanks @[email protected] !

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Joplin server also will use a file based storage instead of the db. And db then is only used for users

I use joplin as i share notes and collaborate with my wife. Obsidian etc dont do that. Id love to be on obsidian as i really like it but sharing notebooks is mandatory

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
nginx	Popular HTTP server

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

[Thread #413 for this sub, first seen 8th Jan 2024, 22:35] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I self host Outline with storage connected to a Minio instance that I use as S3 storage for several applications.

I loved the ability of writing in markdown form, but a simple and intuitive design, with the ability to share a whole collection, a subset of pages, or a single page publicly without dealing with a bunch of overhead.

[–] fahad 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Logseq

Free and open-source.

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