I am searching for the best option for organising my personal knowledge, secure and always available.

My requirements: -Selfhosted -Open Source -Login protection (OIDC would be a dream) -Collaboration on notes would be awesome -Not limited to one device e.g. using it on multiple devices like the phone and laptop -No lock in (if it works with md. files in the backend that’s perfect) -Zotero integration would be fancy

I tried different solution and the, slowest, but the simplest is actually Nextcloud Notes. I just hate the interface and the small width of the writing window.

What I also liked for that use case was outline - which is just to complicated and way to demanding to setup and maintain as I want to solely rely on it. But that’s the closest to the features I mentioned for me. I once brokenit for like 2 months which made me switch to NC Notes - where I am not really happy.

There are a lot of nice tools but coming to open source it gets thin…

Also there are a lot of nice tools like Logseq and Zettelkasten which are impressive but limited to a device or to a cloud drive where you have to make sure it synced…

How do you organize your notes and personal knowledge in your Homelab setup? Which tools do you use - and do you collaborate on notes?

  • funkyferdy@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just hate the interface and the small width of the writing window.

    You know that you can just edit the notes files with any texteditor you like on any system that is, at least, capable of webdav? I edit my notes with my iphone on the default “notes” app, as example.

  • IceOleg@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Joplin could be an option. It can sync either off a cloud drive like Dropbox, or to a server. There is a Joplin cloud which is pretty inexpensive, or you can self host. Joplin can do encryption locally (E2E) before syncing.

    Joplin does abstract away the notes files, but its all stored as markdown and the export will give you your notes in a nice human readable folder+file structure.

  • tomhung@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll throw hedgedoc in the mix. We use it for TONS of work at my small company. I wish it had better search, and organize sticky notes. I’m praying the new version comes out. Anyway we love it with all its flaws.

  • fuken33@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Obsidian with self-hosted live-sync from here: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/

    Basically you have a couchDB hosted in your homelab to store your obsidian data and then the obsidian self hosted live sync plugin that runs on your devices connects to your self hosted database and sync your notes there in an optimized. I tried both this and sincronizing via github and I prefer this, because is faster and less intrusive

  • ghanjiboy@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Another vote for Joplin with Joplin self hosted server . Works very well for me and the family plus the added benefit is if you want to share notes with external folks that don’t have joplin, you can do that as well.

  • TastierSub@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Outline recently added support for local storage instead of S3. Authentication is the only other common self-hosted pain point, but given you’re looking for OIDC anyway, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be a viable option.

  • Self_toasted@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nextcloud Notes for Personal stuff, to-do lists, grocery lists etc. I heavily utilize Nextcloud in my personal life. My server is fairly optimized and performant, the syncing is great, mobile app is decent and overall, it “just works” for me. It’s also really nice having all that stuff in one place.

    silverbullet.md for homelab notes, personal wiki-like articles and stuff of that nature. I love the interface and markdown support. It’s easy to use, the search feature is really nice and it has modular functionality (using plugins). It’s running on a vm fronted by a reverse proxy (for SSL) so I can easily hit from any device on the lan.

  • mpopgun@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using openproject to take notes. I created a project for different areas of my life…then tasks and sub tasks. There’s a wiki, calendar, attach files, associate tasks with other tasks. Then when I’m through with a “project” like testing Nextcloud, I close that project. It archives so all the data and hides it so it’s not in my immediate view anymore but I can still reference it.

    The free version supports ldap and 2fa. So it should fit in with Authentik or something similar for SSO.

    I’ve found this pretty effective for much of my home lab work, especially for keeping track of applications I want to try. OneNote was getting too cluttered with old projects that I didn’t continue for one reason or another.