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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    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

    • @thirdBreakfastOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      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.

      • conrad82English
        2•2 years ago

        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

        • @thirdBreakfastOPEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Just watched the video for Silverbullet. If it’s as good on mobile as in this demo, then it will fit my requirements nicely.

          • conrad82English
            3•2 years ago

            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

            • @thirdBreakfastOPEnglish
              2•2 years ago

              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.

              • conrad82English
                2•2 years ago

                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