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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Shimitar@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use Orgzly Revived with Syncthing, it's pretty good

[–] BuckenBerry@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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.

[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Org roam could work if you’re your cool with emacs. Create files on the fly that are named with the date/topic and it could be setup to allow timestamps since you mentioned that. Notes can be linked to each other or easily merge or split as it develops.

Also org roam comes coupled with a daily diary that attaches to emacs calendar system.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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

[–] flubba86@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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.

[–] v3ritas@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it will have everything you're looking for, but I really like DailyTxT. I do have a couple other note-taking apps & seeing if I want to replace DailyTxT with Obsidian, but I like the web-hosted & straight-forwardness of DailyTxT.

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[–] alvaro@social.graves.cl -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Shimitar@feddit.it I would use obsidian, but for really self hosted I would try silverbullet

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