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.
You have and use Silverbullet. Why not use templates and Silverbullet? It’s basically made for exactly that use case.
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.
This looks very cool, will definitely give it a try. Thank you
Joplin
I find Joplin cluncky and kinda slow. Also, it’s storage is not plain MD even if the files are called .md
If it isn’t meant for others to see, what’s wrong with a .txt file you just add notes to?
Organization, sorting, categorization… Indeed a TXT can do the job, but why limiting to that…
I already use silverbullet for general notes… But looking for something more targeted and specifically meant for diary tasks.
Tried the demo, nice, but still mostly a note taking app. Seems easy to selfhost
I’d like to add to the voice about Memo. It’s very nice, stable, loads of features if you want them and actively growing.
I think of my “diary” as a stream of consciousness. Thus Memo makes sense. It feels like a personal Twitter feed.
Tagging, photo upload, links. All that works great in Memo.
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.
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.
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.
Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.
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.
Looks very promising, but its not self hosted? Looks more like an app / local webapp?
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.
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.
@Shimitar@feddit.it I would use obsidian, but for really self hosted I would try silverbullet
I use Standard Notes
Not really what I call open source. Long topic, not OT to discuss here…
Plain text or org mode file.
Maybe not be exactly what you’re looking for, but Logseq has a daily note-taking function. When you open it for the first time of the day, it shows you a blank journal with the current date as the header and you can put whatever you want in it. It has a search function that can search through all the notes you’ve made for specific text. It saves each day as a separate markdown file and you can sync these to your phone or other devices with Syncthing, a cloud service like Google Drive, or with git if you host something like Forgejo.
The only thing about Logseq is that it doesn’t use the standard syntax for Markdown checkboxes. Instead, it has it’s own Todo syntax, which is perfectly human readable without Logseq, but loses out of some convenience if you were to migrate to something else.
+1 for Logseq… I’m using it for work as well as personal stuff and it’s strength is automatically creating new pages (and reverse links back) by just typing ‘’ [[that new idea]] ‘’ and you’re done. Fantastic.
And sync with syncthing
I think OP needs to explain why a note taking app is not a diary app in their view.
I did, on top post.
Sorry, I don’t see it. Do you mean in a reply to a comment?
I took a look at the awesome self-hosted repo and found DailyTxt. I have no experience with it but maybe worth a try?
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
You trust Microsoft?
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.
Are you okay with your diary being consumed by copilot?
Didn’t I answer this question in my previous reply?
WordPress could probably do it, you don’t have to give it public access.
