Self-hosted journaling app

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  • memos

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

    Memos?

  • InfluxDB

    Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

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  • Trilium Notes

    Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

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

  • 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

    Discontinued :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

  • SaaSHub

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