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Self-hosted diary (feddit.it)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] BuckenBerry 1 points 6 months ago

Notesnook doesn't have self hosting yet (the developers are working on it) but it might be a good option in the future.

[–] SquiffSquiff 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Zim desktop wiki? I've used it for years. Cross platform, open source, lots of features. Bear in mind that there are a lot of plugins, including one specifically for journaling

[–] EncryptKeeper 1 points 6 months ago

https://www.usememos.com/ Would be great for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Id set up a static website with Hugo. You can preview and build locally. Or put it on your home network and vpn in if you need remote access to make an entry.

In your content folder you could do content/[year]/[month]/[day]/index.md, and have a _index.md in the year and in month folders so there would be pages with automatic collection of articles under that year/ month. You could also subdivide the content folder into health/ general/ shower thoughts and other "types" of journals

They have support for tags, categories, and custom taxonomies. So if you wanted to have "people" category you could, and then a "thing" category or any other sort of way to tag the content.

https://gohugo.io/

[–] flubba86 1 points 6 months ago

Trillium is a full featured configurable and programmable self-hosted note-taking app that can be easily configured to suit the use case you're describing, it does categories, tags, links to other topics etc.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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)

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