Selfhosted obsidian alternative

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • The only edge case was my phone where it's more of a pain. Both getting on my LAN (sure, vpn is an option) and networking the storage. So I have syncthing syncing my obsidian vault between my NAS & phone. It breaks through my NAT and syncs the files.

  • obsidian-remote

    Run Obsidian.md in a browser via a docker container.

  • This but consider using the dockerfile in this issue which switches the image to use kasmvnc and an actual recent version of obsidian https://github.com/sytone/obsidian-remote/issues/51

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • 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.

  • Logseq... https://logseq.com/

  • obsidian-livesync

  • I found obsidian-livesync the other day and made it run fairly easily. Before that I had syncthing but it was creating conflicting files.

  • Outline

    The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  • vscodium

    binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  • VScode/VSCodium + Foam + Github/Any gitprovider or Syncthing

  • Trilium Notes

    Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

  • 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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  • silverbullet

    The hackable notebook

  • https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet This has been my alternative for Obsidian for a while now, and it has support to run it as a server with several frontends or whatever.

  • dave

    Discontinued A totally simple and very easy to configure stand alone webdav server

  • dave + orgzly

  • obsidian-diy-sync

    Obsidian.md plugin + expressjs server for syncing and publishing markdown content

  • I wrote https://github.com/cobypear/obsidian-diy-sync as a self hostable sync server+plugin. It spits out a /blog endpoint too so you can grab them for a blog or docs site. it's still mostly mvp, feel free to fork it or open issues!

  • Perlite

    A web-based markdown viewer optimized for Obsidian

  • Code-Server

    VS Code in the browser

  • There are web based VSCode you can run. Or if you push to Github that with give you a good read and a ok write experience. I treat mobile as a read only so I use Markor.

  • markor

    Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, ..

  • There are web based VSCode you can run. Or if you push to Github that with give you a good read and a ok write experience. I treat mobile as a read only so I use Markor.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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