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.

  • conrad82English
    2•11 months 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

        • @thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2•11 months 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•11 months 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