Trilium is an excellent option, however, the original project is no longer maintained. There is a new community fork that is active here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes

+1 for the open source option: Trilium The project is being maintained here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes

Thanks for the clear explanation, that makes sense to me. For me, I just use Trilium for all of the above, so it doesn’t affect me, but I could see how it would matter for those using it in the way you are 👍

I’ve never quite understood why this is such a non-starter for most people. I just simply set up a script to export my Trilium notes to Nextcloud as flat files so I can still read my notes anywhere even without a Trilium client. Trilium also allows you to edit the notes with an external editor, and then you can just re-import the note to update the note in Trilium.

^this. You probably had a Nextcloud client somewhere with wrong credentials that was trying to reconnect repeatedly which locked you out. It happened once to me.

Do you mean Memories?

Probably using Nextcloud Memories. Its very performant.

Nextcloud Memories is very fast. Photos is indeed a nightmare.

I also useTrilium but I have to say that the mobile experience is pretty poor. You loose the ability to add labels and most of the desktop features are stripped away. If all you need is to simple read and write, then the mobile web app may suffice. There is also a bug where many android keyboards cause typed characters to duplicate (a ckeditor bug)

I’m still sticking with Trilium because the desktop app is super. I’m definitely looking forward to a mobile app at some point (its bound to be developed by someone!)

See here for a good comparison of your options: https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

^ This. The Android app is quite nice. For iOS readers, you should use netnewswire

Nextcloud Memories has good video transcoding support.

I’d go with Proxmox with a docker VM then you can always run other VMS or lxc containers if needed.

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