Such a good feeling cancelling my paid tier on Dropbox this week. I’ve been ‘playing’ at self hosting for a few months, and now I’m confident in my infrastructure and processes so I can start turning off some of the cloud things I’ve been paying for.
Dropbox has gone in favor of Syncthing over Tailscale in a hub and spoke arrangement to a VM at home. The main compromise I’ve had to make is on the iOS experience.
The next subscriptions I’ll be cancelling will be Evernote (I have so loved this over the years, but as they’ve added ‘features’ the app experience has degraded to the point where it’s no longer reliable to add notes from my phone). I’m currently trying Obsidian for this , but thinking about a simpler web markdown editor for mobile.
After that, all my Wordpress blogs will be coming home to my VPS, I imagine with some sort of static site generator.
I’d switch to self hosting, but the owners a real lazy son of a bitch
The main compromise I’ve had to make is on the iOS experience.
Me too. I’ve all my computers syncing with Syncthing to a local machine and access the data on iOS using FE File Explorer Pro via a SMB share pointed to the Syncthing data dir.
How is Tailscale different from ZeroTier in this setup?
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No, not FOSS. Just good, and uses plain MD files so no locking-in of your data.
If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.
Syncthing is amazing. I had it keeping a dir of files synced on my LAN for a good stretch, but ended up replacing multiple devices with a single MBP and some external displays. I’ll look to it again if that changes in the future. Can’t recommend it enough.
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I have been looking at markdown editors for a couple of weeks and I settled on Flatnotes in Docker. It is so simple and elegant and I just mount the notes repository to an NFS share on my NAS
Sounds like exactly what I’m after. I was going to use FileBrowser since that has a text editor, but Flatnotes seems like it’s markdown focused, so even better. Thanks.
I have been using Zettel notes android app and syncing the md notes on syncthing. I enjoy the experience
But I recently discovered silverbullet https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet and I think I will give it a try when I get back from holiday. I think it can be combined with syncthing too
Just watched the video for Silverbullet. If it’s as good on mobile as in this demo, then it will fit my requirements nicely.
You can try it right now on the docs, https://silverbullet.md/ . I don’t like the color scheme, but it seems quite simple to change
I’ve been trying this today, and it does everything I want (plus some fancy stuff I didn’t know I wanted). I’ll stick with it for a week and see how I go. I’m running a local instance on my laptop on a directory that’s SyncThinged to the homelab server, and another SilverBullet instance on that server which I access from the phone via TailScale. Great suggestion, thanks.
Nice! I will give it a go as well
The one thing that is missing from web only apps for me, is that you can’t use the android share functionality
Hey congrats! If you’re exploring, I’ve had great success with the free tiers on sync.com (cloud storage) and notion (notes). I also have the iOS sad re:syncthing, which I use almost exclusively now.
If you want to try sync get yourself an invite from an existing user for free extra gigabytes. They’re a solid, sensible company and their free tier is more than enough for the few things I need handy on my phone.
I tried both notion and obsidian and for some reason notion just stuck for me. I like that I can share notes with coworkers. Ever note went down the tubes a few years ago, which was a drag.
Edit: reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can’t self-host.
reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can’t self-host.
The bots are becoming self aware 😰
Totally not a robot, fellow human.
I had the opposite experience - bounced on Notion but stuck on Obsidian. I really like how Obsidian handles file management and how each note file is just a markdown document. I’ve moved from too many note apps to ever trust one with a closed system again.
The simplicity of the markdown files just in directories is something that drew me to it. Just always feels like my data is going to survive technology changes.
