I’m completely new to selfhosting but see a lot of potential. I wonder if anyone knows a good way to self host a notetaking app? The point is that I need to access my notes on multiple devices so self hosting them could be a nice idea. I currently use google keep and goodnotes but would like to leave those behind…
After trying a bunch, I’m using Obsidian + <your choice of sync plugin> now. Good thing with Obsidian is your notes are ultimately a bunch of plaintext files, so you can do whatever you want with them, and it comes with clients for most platforms.
Another option is Trilium, it is pretty powerful, and has a webapp so as long as you can access a browser, you’ll be able to access your notes. github.com/zadam/trilium
Mora@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I’ve used Joplin before which was okay-ish (but worked the e2e encryption during an update).
Now I would recommend Silverbullet if you are really keen on self hosting a notes app.
But the notes that work best for me is simply Obsidian + Syncthing (you could self host a syncthing server), thanks to its sheer ability to adapt to nearly any use case thanks to its plugin.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Mora@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
But Syncthing Fork is not shut down and is still maintained (never used the main version tbh).
f-droid.org/…/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandr…
twinnie@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
What was wrong with Joplin? I was thinking about giving it a try.
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Not the OP, but I believe they’re talking about the upgrade from 128 bit AES to 256 bit AES. It created some compatibility issues between clients for a few days as the ones that weren’t updated yet couldn’t decryot the newer 256 AES encrypted notes. That was my experience anyways. It’s a great app/server from my personal experience.
christov@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I also tried Joplin and while it’s great while using it, there’s no background sync and never will be. That’s a huge pain when you’re mobile and need to get at your notes but have little or no signal.