Productivity

15 articles tagged "productivity"

My Notes Have Outlived Four Apps and Will Outlive This One Too

Joplin keeps your notes as plain markdown files that sync across devices without a server in the middle. Pair it with Syncthing and a decade of notes becomes a folder you own, encrypted, searchable and immune to shutdowns.

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I Built a Private Twitter Where I Am the Only User

Memos is a lightweight self-hosted note app built for quick capture. Open a box, type a thought, tag it, done. Sixty-two thousand stars of proof that the fastest note app is the one with no friction.

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I Moved My Budget Off YNAB and Onto My Own Server

Actual Budget is a free, local-first envelope budgeting app you can self-host. YNAB's method without the $109 a year, with your financial data living on hardware you own instead of someone else's cloud.

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I Digitised Every Piece of Paper in My House

Paperless-ngx turns your scanner into a searchable archive with OCR, tagging and full-text search on your own hardware, so every receipt and contract is one query away and nobody else hosts your paperwork.

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I Turned My Server Into a PDF Toolbox and Cancelled Adobe

Stirling PDF runs 55+ PDF tools in a browser tab on your own hardware. Merge, split, compress, OCR, sign and redact documents without a single file leaving your network.

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I Read 50 Blogs a Day Without Opening a Browser. Here Is How.

I was subscribed to 50 blogs via email. My inbox was chaos. FreshRSS lets me read them all in one clean interface.

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I Created My Own URL Shortener and Ditched Bitly

Bitly is fine until they want $40 a month for custom domains and analytics. Shlink does the same thing on my server for free.

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Your Homelab Deserves a Dashboard. Here Is the Best One.

I had 15 services running and kept forgetting which port was which. Homarr gave me a single page to see everything.

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I Digitized Every Recipe in My House and Now My Kitchen Talks to My Server

My grandmother's recipes were on handwritten cards. Now they are in a searchable, self-hosted recipe manager I can access from my phone while cooking.

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Google Docs but Private: Why I Self-Host CryptPad

I stopped editing documents on Google Docs after realizing they train AI on my content. CryptPad is encrypted, collaborative, and self-hosted.

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We Replaced Slack with Mattermost and Saved $500 a Year

Slack wanted $12/user/month for the privilege of searching our own messages. Mattermost does everything Slack does on our server.

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I Left GitHub and Hosted My Own Git Server. Here Is How.

GitHub is great until you want to own your code. Gogs is the lightest Git server ever written and it runs on a Raspberry Pi with 64MB RAM.

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I Stopped Paying Calendly $16 a Month and Hosted My Own Scheduler

Calendly is convenient. But $16 a month for letting people book time on my calendar? I built the same thing with Cal.com for free.

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We Stopped Losing Knowledge and Started Using BookStack

Our team had documentation scattered everywhere. Google Docs, Notion, Slack messages. BookStack gave us one place to keep everything.

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I Replaced Zapier with n8n and Saved $600 a Year

Zapier wanted $74 a month for the plan I needed. n8n does the same thing on my server for free. The math was simple.

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