I just recently discovered SilverBullet and have been happily using that for journaling. Its self hosted and lets you add functionality by writing lua scripts.
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I tried silver bullet too. Problem with all note taking/knowledge management app are they are just that note taking app not Journaling app and miss all core aspect of journaling.
I actually just made a bunch of utils for my own journaling in SB, including a button to always open the days journal page, which uses a template to get things like prompts and show widgets for things like how I felt that day.
I wonder, what aspects of journaling do you find missing from note taking apps?
It is listed in the post. There are tons. Please visit the website you will see all the features which are present and also ones being added.
I was planning to "start over" on my home server when I moved but so far I've only set up HA on a standalone device.
This project might be the push I need to get the real server online again, nice work
Thank you. Best of luck.
Nice looking project. Will there be amy export/backup functionality? I wouldnt want to keep a journal in a young project that doesnt have some sort of migration option.
Thanks. Export will be added pretty soon. As of now you can export entries in PDF as that was one of the most requested feature. Since the beauty of self hosting is that all the data lives on your machine. You have it with you all the time. It is just a database (sqllite or postgres) and all your media files under a directory. Back up is pretty simple you just backup the docker volume or the bind mount directory which is standard for docker.
Although I do want to add a more human accessible export output which people who do not want to deal with db can use.
What kind of export would you like to see?
Anything that would be considered plaintext (markdown, org, etc…) or something easily portable like html export.
I always think about these things in the sense of how would i pass this journal on to less technically capable family members if it became necessary.
Cool. Makes sense. Can I request you to open a issue on github to track this? Thanks.