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Self-hosted diary

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.

Norgur ,

Yeah, I think you're looking for Monica at this point.

kionite231 ,

I personally use private github repo as my diary. I don't want to lose my data by accident. I trust github more than I trust myself

foggy ,

You trust Microsoft?

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

When it comes to preserving my data? Yes. Though I'd be concerned about privacy of my diary too, I get your point. Public code is one thing, but personal notes is another.

berryjam ,

Are you okay with your diary being consumed by copilot?

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

Didn't I answer this question in my previous reply?

berryjam ,

Welp, I guess you did

DarkSirrush ,

WordPress could probably do it, you don't have to give it public access.

rdschouw ,

I use Standard Notes

Shimitar OP ,
@Shimitar@feddit.it avatar

Not really what I call open source.
Long topic, not OT to discuss here...

AbidanYre ,

tiddlywiki?

Shimitar OP ,
@Shimitar@feddit.it avatar

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

Norgur ,

it's a bunch of loose files, basically. If you wanted it actively hosted, you'd just need to put them into a web server, basically.

AbidanYre ,

The "no public access" made me think a local option would suffice.

There's noteself as a self hosted version.

I used it for a while but ended up moving to Joplin to be able to share notes with family. Noteself/Tiddly seemed like a better fit for your described use case though.

thomasloven ,

I think OP needs to explain why a note taking app is not a diary app in their view.

Shimitar OP ,
@Shimitar@feddit.it avatar

I did, on top post.

thomasloven ,

Sorry, I don’t see it.
Do you mean in a reply to a comment?

Alabaster_Mango ,
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

overload ,

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.

Shimitar OP ,
@Shimitar@feddit.it avatar

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.

Thorned_Rose ,
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

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

MiltownClowns ,

I picked up obsidian because it is a perfect diary app w/ templates and daily notes built in. But it's so damn customizable that my obsidian notebook has become an all consuming passion of knowledge base and personal project managment that requires me to be productive IRL to generate more content for me to catalogue. Really appeals to the data hoarder in me, been a game changer. Highly recommend. Perfect 5/7.

Obsidian.rocks

v3ritas ,
@v3ritas@infosec.pub avatar

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.

Shimitar OP ,
@Shimitar@feddit.it avatar

This looks very cool, will definitely give it a try. Thank you

flubba86 ,

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.

SquiffSquiff , (edited )

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

ResoluteCatnap ,

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/

EncryptKeeper ,

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

terminal ,

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.

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

SolarPunker ,

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

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