Build a private, self-hosted, and extensible productivity notes-taking system using Directus and Docker - inspired by Obsidian and single-file workflows

Features for the note taking app detailed in this guide include:

  • Self-hosted
  • Private
  • Built to last
  • Low maintenance
  • Access in one place & from any device (Obsidian charges for this feature)
  • Versioning
  • Zero vendor lock-in
  • Extendable (eg. passing text-embedded notes to AI)
  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I don’t really get all the hate on the comments. Yes there are tons of note taking alternatives, and yet usually none ever works just perfectly for anybody. More choice is a good thing.

    Yes it saves to a database, but it doesnt seems to be encrypted nor “proprietary” or “vendor lock-in” as the notes are, afterall, plain text and can be extracted from a database easily. Is it the best storage for text notes? not in my opinion, but that is not vendor lock-in.

    My choice is silverbullet on web and Markor on Android, with Synchting in the back (yes, Synchting still works pretty fine on android thanks to the forked app).

    • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I think the mistake is they titled it “The last note taking app you’ll ever need” instead of “The last note taking app I’lll ever need”

      Yes, seriously. The article seems to talk mostly about their personal usecases, which is fine. This app is great and it works for them. But it won’t work for everybody and the title should probably respect that instead of having a grating title that evokes a knee jerk reaction.

      Databases are annoying it is legitimately more difficult to export data from a database to another, than it is to copy markdown notes from one folder to another. In addition to that, there are also tools that process markdown and do cool stuff with, like pandoc, beamer, revealjs, etc, which can’t really be done with the more opaque database format.

      Also this notetaking service only appears to work while online. Again, fine for them — but a dealbreaker for many people.

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Really? You think it’s the “last note taking app” comment in the description?

        You don’t think maybe it’s the shoehorned AI into a project that has no real plan for how it is implemented?

        Or maybe it’s not the ai implementation, maybe it’s the fact that “respects your privacy” is incompatible with openai’s terms of use (openai can train on your notes if you supply them)?

    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      23 days ago

      What is this SyncThing fork? Is it on F-Droid or something? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because everyone praises SyncThing but it straight up does not work. I can get it to sync once, then the next day it will just not connect at all (Android 15 P9Pro/CachyOS)

        • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          23 days ago

          what “crazy pills” are you taking?

          1. Hear people praise SyncThing
          2. Open the Play Store by depressing the tip of my finger on its icon
          3. Search “SyncThing”
          4. Click on first result
          5. Press “Install”
          6. It doesn’t work
          • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            20 days ago

            Yea, that’s a lot of ambiguity.

            “Doesn’t work”. Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it’s a multi-device sync tool.

            For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it’s Syncthing, for iOS it’s Möbius.

            I’ve installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn’t worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.