Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for … running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard … they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? …

Many of my running containers … are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I’ve installed Trilium Notes - but I’m using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I’ve installed Vikunja - but I’m using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I’ve installed Snapdrop - but I’m using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I’ve installed Bitwarden - but I’m using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I’ve installed AdGuard - but I’m using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that’s a little bit sad, right? The only “Job to be done” self-hosting is a solution for me is … file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I’m not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I’m doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I’m controlling it with Android Tasker )

  • Proximus88@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Both, i like setting up the network and trying out selfhosted services.

    Definitely improved my daily routines:

    - Paperless-ngx, connected to my email. All my bills and purchases are backed up. So easy to find documents/warranty documents.

    - Nextcloud, for backing up my phone and personal life. Too much data for cloud providers and pivate.

    - Plex/Jellyfin, easy way to watch all my Linux iso’s without paying 10 different streaming services. Still subscribed to two steaming services though (family).

    - Adguard, lifesaver to browse the web without going crazy.

    - Immich, awesome photo viewer with mobile app.

    - Syncthing, awesome tool to sync data. Use it to sync my Obisian notes to all my devices.

    - Kasm/webtop, have my own OS in browser to access from any web browser securely.

    - Restic, tool to backup everything to Backblaze. You can use any storage solution.

    - Wireguard VPN, to easy access my services and have adblocking on my phone and laptop outside of my LAN.

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      1 year ago

      Obisian

      Hey, may I ask what application you use on your smartphone to view the markdown notes?

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      1 year ago

      I have paperless running in a docker container on my unraid machine but it seems like it takes longer to use then what I used to do.

      I used to save all files to a folder system

      Docs -> Year -> date-sender.pdf

      Now it seems I have to manually do all of the coding. I thought that paperless, would learn who files are from and then categorize it for me, so that if I scan all my monthly bills and then 2 years later I need to find my internet bill for Dec 2019, I could just search for it and find it.

      While the search will work, it only works if I scanned it, tagged it spectrum and put the date on it. Seems like its more work to me?

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        1 year ago

        I run paperless-ngx in a docker container. Have it scan my email for attachments once a day. It automatically tags the email depending on keywords found in the email and sender.

        If I scan a document to import I tag it manually.

        But paperless-ngx also has ocr, so it will scan the whole page and save that data. So I can search for example ‘samsung’ and it will show me all documents where Samsung is in. Even if it is not tagged.

        My docker-compose:

        version: "3.3"
        
        networks:
          paperless:
               name: paperless
               driver: bridge
               ipam:
                config:
                  - subnet: 172.36.0.0/16
        
        services:
          paperless-redis:
            container_name: paperless-redis
            image: docker.io/library/redis:7
            restart: unless-stopped
            networks:
              - paperless
            volumes:
              - ./redis:/data
           
        
          paperless-db:
            container_name: paperless-db
            image: docker.io/library/postgres:13
            restart: unless-stopped
            networks:
              - paperless
            volumes:
              - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
            environment:
              POSTGRES_DB: paperlessdb
              POSTGRES_USER: paperless
              POSTGRES_PASSWORD: super-secure-password
        
          paperless:
            container_name: paperless
            image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:latest
            restart: unless-stopped
            networks:
              - paperless
            depends_on:
              - paperless-db
              - paperless-redis
            ports:
              - 8002:8000
            healthcheck:
              test: ["CMD", "curl", "-fs", "-S", "--max-time", "2", "http://localhost:8000"]
              interval: 30s
              timeout: 10s
              retries: 5
            volumes:
              - ./data:/usr/src/paperless/data
              - ./media:/usr/src/paperless/media
              - ./export:/usr/src/paperless/export
              - ./consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
            env_file: ./docker-compose.env
            environment:
              PAPERLESS_REDIS: redis://paperless-redis:6379
              PAPERLESS_DBHOST: paperless-db
        
        

        The .en file you can find on there GitHub. But the over important part is to setup a language for it.

        # The default language to use for OCR. Set this to the language most of your
        # documents are written in.
        PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=nld