Today I Installed #OpenCloud and completed my move away from Nextcloud.

I'm really happy with it.

Nextcloud was by far the most frustrating application I've self hosted. If there was a way for Nextcloud to be annoying, it would do it.

Been using #Immich for a while and it's amazing. That's replaced Memories.

Recently started using #Joplin. That's replaced Notes.

Set up some shared calendars with symlinks in OpenCloud's #Radicale add-on to replace Calendar and Contacts.

#SelfHosted #HomeLab

In meinem Versuch, digital unabhängiger von US-Diensten zu sein und alle meine Daten möglichst auf meinem eigenen Serverspace zu lagern, hatte ich #Evernote schon 2024 oder 25 aufgegeben. Als Ersatz verwende ich #Joplin zusammen mit meiner #Nextcloud, bin aber nicht so ganz warmgeworden damit. Jetzt habe ich einen neuen Versuch gestartet, Markdown etwas besser verstanden (bin weiterhin kein Fan) und mit einigen Tweaks und Erweiterungen hat es auf dem Mac tatsächlich Evernote-Flair.

#DiDay

My journey from Joplin to Obsidian is less than ideal.

To be perfectly fair, I was happy with Joplin. It has a clear goal of replacing Evernote with privacy-focused design, and the interface is intuitive. The reason of my migration is simply because of the front-end - their legacy editor introduced too much friction for my workflow and it needs to be refactored or rebuilt from ground up - and I don't have the patience.

On the other hand, Obsidian is modern and responsive - yet the default UX is too smart to the stage of unintuitive for most people. Yes, tagging is more flexible than folder and backlinks can be very useful once the users start linking pieces together. However it introduced a steep (it should actually be flat but why let mathematical pedantry ruins a saying) learning curve unnecessarily and make migration from another note-taking app a hassle.

Bear in mind - outside of Obsidian the files are still stored in folders; and folders and tags can coexist. The design choice of displaying graphs by default and have a flat folder+files structure made the onboarding process cumbersome and heavily relies on users giving up the functions they need.

In the end, a notetaking app exists to take notes; it is great to have comprehensive plugin support to be tinkered with, but that is not the primary purpose.

#Obsidian #Joplin #notetakingapp #notetaking #writing

I recently wanted to move away from Apple’s Notes app, since it doesn’t allow storing the actual notes anywhere als than iCloud. So I started a journey regarding self-hosting my notes …

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I’ve started a #joplin CLI app.

Compared to the Joplin Terminal App (which is a full blown Joplin with a TUI) I’ve created it as a thin wrapper using the Wen Clipper API.

I use it for

- search/get/update all you Notes and Notebooks from your favorite terminal.
- connect to LLMs (as a much leaner alternative to all MCP Servers I’ve found so far)

It’s still rough around the edges but very easy to set up if you want to take a look! 👀

https://github.com/vsaw/joplin-cli
#joplinapp #BuildInPublic

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Dieses #KI Zeugs fängt an Spaß zu machen. 😬

Ich habe mir zwei #MCP Server gevibecoded. Einen um meine #Joplin Notizen per #Claude zu lesen und zu schreiben. Und einen um auf Mails mit bestimmten Labels in #Fastmail zuzugreifen.
Das funktioniert ganz schön geil. Jetzt dokumentiert #ClaudeCode alle Ideen und Projekte in Joplin. Und ich kann informationen aus Mails lesen und bspw ne Zusammenfassung ins Notizbuch packen. 😏