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?
Sorge Hetzner Storage Share is what I now use as a "rock solid" Nextcloud. It's slow as fuck since I activated like all plugins but - hypothetically they let you run those small llms for a Local AI integration meaning you could do a lot for those few bucks.
However, long term, I having setup Nextcloud AIO and so far I did one upgrade without any issues. This Nextcloud could be fast - but is not slow running on 150gb RAM and 6 vCPUs. It would take more RAM if I give it more......but I have a full stack NC with Talk,ClamAV, Talk Record, .....
I like the look of filerun - but it's not free in the community edition anymore. So what I am looking into for a time but could not figure to setup is Pydio.