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I am looking for self hosted blog/journal that is private by default. Not looking to host a public blog, rather something that I can write more personal entries on and is easy to read later. I want to be able to include multimedia in the entries.

Currently I'm thinking of a Mastodon server with posts set to private by default and turning off federation. It would be awesome to be able to post from my phone as events happen rather than having to find time later.

I've tried around with using IMAP and an email client, but not sold on it. Tried using a calendar, but too cludgy.

Open to other ideas!

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[–] BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Cannot recommend Obsidian enough. Just plain Markdown, but infinite times more powerful. I use it for just that and it's been damn perfect.

Another vote for Obsidian. Markdown is powerful enough to be used anywhere. I'm currently using Obsidian with the Templater plugin to write. Entries I want published get copied to the directory I use to build my site with Zola.

[–] shertson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Obsidian support audio/video?

[–] BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yes.

Again, it's just a markdown. You can do this:

![desc](path/to/file.mp4)
[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] clavismil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for obsidian and syncthing, I like to avoid the use of many applications. So everything related to writing text/notes for personal use I do centralize in obsidian. You can even make some drawings or handwriting with excalidraw, hady for diagrams.