ente VS Awesome-Self-hosting-for-the-w

I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android.

I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/

I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook and Google.

I also keep extensive journals, which really helps to tie it all together. I can basically grep for hangouts, conversations, etc.

I also separate work journal from personal, and have essentially a journal for each project. https://jodavaho.io/tags/bullet-journal.html for how.

I religiously use Google calendar for all plans, you can easily search it for past events to get dates.

I also use monicahq for some notes about things I should remember about people but the habit never stuck.

> How does one get their data out of the cloud ente.io - and into a self hosted instance of the server? Is there any data loss during this process?

Just to jump in cause I was curious myself. I think your question is answered here:

"Command Line Utility for exporting data from Ente"

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/cli

IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app that can connect to the open-source server. There are many private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only!

See also: the https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hosting-for-the-w... directory, which your project would qualify for! (Right now, the only entries in the list are two Synology offerings [not open-source!], and one other app that's not E2E-encrypted. You're better than these — go take your crown!)