Series · 5 parts
Self-hosting
Tools- 1
Why Obsidian Won: Fifteen Years of Note Apps
I tried Evernote, OneNote, Notion, Bear, Joplin and Logseq over fifteen years. Why Obsidian finally stuck — and why the tool mattered less than the habit it forced me to change.
- 2
Goodbye Imgur — Images on My Own NAS with MinIO
Images were swelling my Obsidian vault. How they moved from Imgur to a self-hosted MinIO server on a Synology NAS, including the two failed attempts before it.
- 3
From WordPress to Astro, on My Own NAS
Why I moved twenty years of blog posts off WordPress onto a static Astro site served from my own NAS, and what AI did and could not do along the way.
- 4
Building a Home AI Stack with the Help of AI
A local AI platform on a mini PC: ollama on an AMD GPU, chat over my own notes, a daily investment-news digest. Built by someone who couldn't have built it alone, with AI as both builder and tutor. Self-hosting, part 4.
- 5
I Didn't Need a Task App. I Needed a Coach.
Todoist, Asana...these task manager apps worked well but ... What finally stuck was no app at all: markdown files in a git repo, with AI doing the part every app left to me. Self-hosting, part 5.