The more bare bones, simple and customisable, the better. I will compromise if the only option is an all in one, but it’s never my first choice as nothing is ever perfect.

Appreciate hearing about your experience 👍 I dont use any of those tools, but self host a complex setup, and is always good to hear how people operate and resolve issues, even if it is luck that saves the day 👍

I’ve had a domain with a dynamic up for over a year with no problems. I have a simple script that runs every 30mins to check if my IP has changed, then updates the DNS records when required.

Cool. I’ll add the android source code to the repo when I get chance 👍

Yeah, it’s entirely online only. And no e2ee, just relies on web server encryption like SSL.

The android, windows and Linux app use propriety parts, the android app is a web view app built in android studio, the Linux and windows apps are just electron apps. I have all the source code I used to build them on my pc, but I didn’t create a repo for them. go-notes is fully open source with the backend in go, the clients are just extremely basic frontends.

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Just gone and checked and all the electron apps source code is in my repo, so the Linux and windows apps you can build yourself from the code. I can upload the android code from android studio if you want as well?

I built a fully open source multi-user live collaboration notes app, self host with docker, serve at root or a subpath, has an android, windows and Linux client app, plus the usual web UI.

https://github.com/TheFozid/go-notes

You don’t need a dashboard. Think of it as just a database. And then other apps interact with it. On my android phone I have davx5 which does all the syncing of things like calendar and contacts. Setting up and syncing with davx5 is the easy bit. The hard bit is getting authentication working and creating the databases. Mine works perfectly but I couldn’t tell you how I set it up. If I want to add another calendar or contacts list to it Id have to go and figure it all out again.

Exactly for what you want it for. I’ve been using it about 3 months. Contacts and calender. It’s a real pain to set up. Not straight forward. I didn’t a lot of time with ai as could not get my head round the guide.

no, i use archlinux on my main desktop as i use it daily and is my main workhorse. i have a laptop that rarely gets used at that has debian on. then i have a mini pc server with debian and a raspberry pi 4 with debian based raspberry pi os.

Owl files if you want a nice simple gui, but cli like termux or terminus are better for mass file transfer

Backups and backups and backups, and then and only then can you trust your data is safe. I run all consumer disks, have 2x2tb ssd’s in a raid1 for user facing storage which are always powered up and mounted. I only have 2 users in total, so relatively light load. Then I have 2x8tb hdd’s which only power on once a day at most, for as long as it takes rsync to complete it’s nightly backups, then they dismount and power off. Been running this for 18 months and not had any issues. My hdd’s will last years with their current load and usage, with only probably a few hundred mb written every night. But if your data is managed and backed up sensibly, and you use raid effectively, cheap discs aren’t a worry.

Depends on temperature. If it’s below 10C all day, then generally never, maybe every day or 2 for 10 mins to let some fresh air in. 10-15C, probably most rooms on the first latch during the day and most closed at night. Over 15C and windows open mostly including on the latch at night.

There for this. I too am heavily de-googleing, and will be looking into fmt more 👍

No, nothing is really saved locally, is just caches the on display item only. So only the currently viewed note is visible. Nothing else.

Essentially currently the app only really has any use when online, and very basic viewing ability when offline. I am planning to make the android app work offline, but that is a long term plan and not immediate.

Nah, docmost is way more complex and advanced. Mine doesn’t offer half what docmost does. Mine is a very simple and lightweight notes app with multi user live collaboration and some nice little customisation options.

Mine has an android, windows and Linux client. I couldn’t see those mentioned on docmost?

It doesn’t. It relies on you being online to edit or create notes. Offline you can only view the currently open note.

i think that would be called remote hosting or cloud hosting? self-hosting is where you host the services your self, without third party hardware or systems.

i hate using it to, but only because i am comfortable with the freedom linux provides. the majority of people using a windows machine would melt at the first sight of trying to use linux and have no motivation or inclination to learn or use it, and why should they? if windows is a sufficient tool for their use case, then good. the os is just a tool to interact with the machine, and as long as the user gets what they want out of it, then the tool is correct.

exactly this! notes in the config files is all the documentation i need. and scripting and automating is so important to a self running and self healing server.