My slow progression towards and away from NextCloud

1. Trilium Notes

   1 282 28,314 9.1 JavaScript

   Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

   

   NC Notes was simply too simple. I tried Trilium Notes, which is awesome, but ultimately landed on BookStack for my wiki/documentation/notes. For notes alone it's a bit too much, but it handles them well enough and for long term documentation it's just perfect.

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3. BookStack

   2 316 16,259 9.6 PHP

   A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

   

   NC Notes was simply too simple. I tried Trilium Notes, which is awesome, but ultimately landed on BookStack for my wiki/documentation/notes. For notes alone it's a bit too much, but it handles them well enough and for long term documentation it's just perfect.

4. linkding

   3 79 7,799 9.2 Python

   Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

   

   NC Bookmarks was really great once I set up the auto-screenshot for each bookmark. But ultimately, the sluggish UI and folder navigation was a bit annoying. I gave linkding a try and really liked the snappy, responsive UI and the very quick/efficient tag based filtering. I do miss the gallery view with website screenshots that NC Bookmarks offer, but having a lean and snappy UI is more important I think. Generally it's a bit of an afterthough, though, I don't use my long term bookmark storage frequently anyway.

5. photoview

   4 101 5,773 8.9 TypeScript

   Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers (by photoview)

   

   NC Photos. Well, technically I might replace this with Photoview at some point, or not, because I barely use it anyway. Any simple "dumb" gallery that does nothing other than showing the items in my folder structure is fine for me. Both NC Photos and Photoview are perfectly fine for this, which is why, at least so far, I'm lazy and sticking to NC Photos.

6. FreshRSS

   5 77 11,067 9.7 PHP

   A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

   

   NC News did have some issues at some point, feeds just wouldn't refresh. And for a rss aggregator, the slugging UI was particularly annoying. I quickly found FreshRSS, which does the same thing but is way faster / more responsive, and it has a nicer UI and some more useful options for customisation as well. Due to FreshRSS (which I would have never tried without NC News) I was able to break my "click 10 news links every half hour" procrastination habit!

7. notes

   6 10 633 9.3 JavaScript

   ✎ Distraction-free notes and writing (by nextcloud)

   

   NC Notes to keep track of notes and all kinds of information

8. news

   7 20 897 9.8 JavaScript

   📰 RSS/Atom feed reader

   

   NC News was my first RSS aggregator, back when I was doubing whether I might need something like this at all - now I can't imagine not having one

9. SaaSHub

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10. mail

    8 18 873 9.9 JavaScript

    💌 Mail app for Nextcloud (by nextcloud)

    

    NC Mail, NC Calender, and NC Contacts, as groupware solution

11. deck

    9 18 1,261 9.7 JavaScript

    🗂 Kanban-style project & personal management tool for Nextcloud, similar to Trello (by nextcloud)

    

    NC Deck (and, very shortly, NC Tasks) to organise my tasks / todos

12. contacts

    10 8 577 9.7 JavaScript

    📇 Contacts app for Nextcloud

    

    NC Mail, NC Calender, and NC Contacts, as groupware solution

13. calendar

    11 19 1,017 9.8 JavaScript

    📆 Calendar app for Nextcloud (by nextcloud)

    

    NC Mail, NC Calender, and NC Contacts, as groupware solution

14. Mailpile

    12 10 8,821 4.0 Python

    A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features

    

    Have a look at mailpile if you are after a web interface; or, the ever-dependable Thunderbird if you are fine with a desktop application.

15. AgenDAV

    13 8 711 0.0 JavaScript

    A CalDAV web client similar to Google Calendar

    

    Thanks, this looks really amazing! I was looking at AgenDAV but Bloben looks much nicer. Then again, as long as I don't have a solution for email (web UI to access multiple accounts via imap) and contacts as well, just switching the calendar seems rather pointless.

16. memories

    14 82 3,416 9.6 Vue

    Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.

    

17. SaaSHub

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