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Self-hosted diary (feddit.it)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Shimitar@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] SolarPunker 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] v3ritas@infosec.pub 1 points 5 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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[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 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.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago (4 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.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 1 points 5 months ago

A note taking app can be turned into a diary app if you only create notes for each day.
Even better if you want to then expand a section of a diary entry without actually modifying it nor jumping between apps.

Obsidian can easily help you tag and link each note and theme/topic in each of them.
There are several plugins for creating daily notes which will be your diary entries.
Also it's local only, you can pair it with any sync service, the obsidian provided one, git, any cloud storage, or ones which work directly with the files like syncthing.

Just curious, what are the special features you expect from a diary service/app which a note taking one doesn't have?

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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/

[–] alvaro@social.graves.cl -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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