My slow progression towards and away from NextCloud

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

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  • 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.

  • BookStack

    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.

  • 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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  • linkding

    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.

  • photoview

    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.

  • FreshRSS

    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!

  • notes

    ✎ Distraction-free notes and writing (by nextcloud)

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

  • news

    :newspaper: 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

  • 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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  • mail

    💌 Mail app for Nextcloud (by nextcloud)

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

  • deck

    🗂 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

  • contacts

    📇 Contacts app for Nextcloud

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

  • calendar

    📆 Calendar app for Nextcloud (by nextcloud)

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

  • Mailpile

    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.

  • AgenDAV

    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.

  • memories

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

  • 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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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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