I am searching for the best option for organising my personal knowledge, secure and always available.
My requirements: -Selfhosted -Open Source -Login protection (OIDC would be a dream) -Collaboration on notes would be awesome -Not limited to one device e.g. using it on multiple devices like the phone and laptop -No lock in (if it works with md. files in the backend that’s perfect) -Zotero integration would be fancy
I tried different solution and the, slowest, but the simplest is actually Nextcloud Notes. I just hate the interface and the small width of the writing window.
What I also liked for that use case was outline - which is just to complicated and way to demanding to setup and maintain as I want to solely rely on it. But that’s the closest to the features I mentioned for me. I once brokenit for like 2 months which made me switch to NC Notes - where I am not really happy.
There are a lot of nice tools but coming to open source it gets thin…
Also there are a lot of nice tools like Logseq and Zettelkasten which are impressive but limited to a device or to a cloud drive where you have to make sure it synced…
How do you organize your notes and personal knowledge in your Homelab setup? Which tools do you use - and do you collaborate on notes?
I’ve been using openproject to take notes. I created a project for different areas of my life…then tasks and sub tasks. There’s a wiki, calendar, attach files, associate tasks with other tasks. Then when I’m through with a “project” like testing Nextcloud, I close that project. It archives so all the data and hides it so it’s not in my immediate view anymore but I can still reference it.
The free version supports ldap and 2fa. So it should fit in with Authentik or something similar for SSO.
I’ve found this pretty effective for much of my home lab work, especially for keeping track of applications I want to try. OneNote was getting too cluttered with old projects that I didn’t continue for one reason or another.