looking for a second brain service (not the obvious one)
reddit / selfhosted

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urinka · 2023-09-30 19:56

Hi looking for a second brain service (probably not the obvious one)
Hopefully to be free, open source and self hosted


i  am a computers and network technician so i need my notes, files,
apps,  pdf etc... available for me on client site and computers (so
local  software based its a big no no )


I already tried the 'notion like' category, the obsidian like category
Joplin and more


and after all this journey I eventually using droppy text editor


So for me  this is a big lesion about what I'm looking for
it's  need to be directory structured and like droppy I need the
ability to  add all kinds of file to each directory (so far just like
droppy)
What  is missing for me is more Rich text editor (and technically if
its  possible to add Reich text editor to droppy as a addon or plugin
its  good enough for me  )
it will be nice to have the ability to link between documents but its
not so impotent


right now (with droppy) i have a directory for each client and sub
directory for each site
i have relevant file names and all kinds of files that relevant for
the client (firmware files, pdfs, zip, xls and more )


any suggestions ?

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ivdda · 2023-10-01 00:14

I've also been looking for something similar. I'm currently using
Obsidian, and I'm pretty happy with it but I've disliked some aspects
of it:

- No native web version. I tried [Kasm](https://kasmweb.com/) and
[obsidian-remote](https://github.com/sytone/obsidian-remote) but they
didn't feel as polished as something native.

- No official self-hosted sync. [obsidian-
livesync](https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync) works well on
Windows and Linux but not on iOS.

I'm considering
[SilverBullet](https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet) and it
might work for you. Data is stored as plain Markdown files in
directories, and is indexed and cached in a database that is
rebuildable from the Markdown files. For linking to another page
within one page, it uses double-bracketed wiki links (`[[The Page You
Are Linking To]]`). Non-text files can be uploaded as attachments with
a 100 MB per-file limit and I'm not sure if that can be changed.

[VS Code Server](https://github.com/coder/code-server) standalone or
with [Foam](https://foambubble.github.io/foam/) could also work, but I
haven't deeply looked into using VS Code like this.

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Cautious_Delay153 · 2023-10-01 07:25

There's a pretty in-depth video about this on yt.

(Pardon the external link. It's to the reference video)
https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE?si=XozrkqCvs8jwL079

This specifically aims at "non-commercial," but it's a great launching
point because ultimately, his reasoning is that all the store is
locally in raw text, so there are no proprietary walls to hurdle.

The video aims towards DoomEMACS being a steep learning curve but also
a very strong contender.

He also indicates qOwnNotes being good but a touch quarky.

Point is; down the rabbit hole you go, but your preference may vary
from someone else. YMMV

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outkastblast · 2023-10-01 15:05

It's not self-hostable **yet**, but it will be eventually.  It's on
their roadmap and in active development so hopefully soon?

[Notesnook](https://notesnook.com/) is pretty great.  It does have
clients for iOS and Android as well as Linux, Mac, and Windows.  But
it also has a web app.  Don't know if it would quite fit what you're
after though....