Self-hosted journaling app

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  • memos

    An open source, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.

  • Memos?

  • Trilium Notes

    Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

  • I use Trilium for this, it's pretty good.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • DailyTxT

    Encrypted Diary Web-App

  • DailyTxT is the main one Ive found that seems to have continued support, but its pretty bare bones right now.

  • Journal

    :notebook: A simple self-hosted journaling app

  • One that is actually made for journaling is https://github.com/inoda/journal although I’ve only barely used it.

  • logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  • Loqseq with git integration. Setup a git server of your preference or any sync of your local files with a server. Just found it and am very happy for journaling and managing meeting notes and tasks. (In two different "graphs" aka folders.

  • athens

    Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.

  • There is a docker compose file on there github that made things easy to get started. Has a web interface and was very quick. You could have multiple users as well.

  • jrnl

    Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

  • Depending on the functionality your looking for jrnl is an excellent tool. It has built in tags and search, and saves everything in a simple file format on disk. https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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