Would a timeline really provide much benefit over viewing screenshots in a folder?

This one has a calendar:

https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/auto_screen_capture.html

For me, I often get to Friday afternoon and realise I haven’t recorded my time all week.

Supposed to be billing clients for tasks.

Screen caps every 15 minutes helps me see what I was doing

Sharex auto capture?

I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.

Clearly I have weird taste but I don’t find any of these appealing in the least.

LOL. Sure mate. Keep smelling your own facts and I’ll eat a bag of dicks when … checks notes … the Italian government produces a FOSS browser to compete with Chrome & FF 🤣

Most of this is self referencing. Like the default search engine is not an example of Google’s control, it’s Mozilla’s revenue model.

The remainder sounds like personal gripes that you’re misconstruing as evidence of nefarious intent.

There’s also plenty of evidence to the contrary, total cookie protection to name but one.

Additionally, beurocratic processes produce terrible software. Log in to any govt website as a refresher.

Finally, browsers are incredibly complex, if this model worked you’d use it for much simpler projects first.

IMO a folder of markdown files is the way. Interoperable with so many things.

Syncthing and maybe pro expense.

I’ve never used pro expense, I just searched f-droid for “finance” and looked for something using local storage.

You probably need to acknowledge that whatever you find isn’t going to be a 1 for 1 replacement for your current workflow.

, and something like “pro expense”

… but projects being popular is not an indicator of how awesome they are.

This is sadly the way of all “awesome” lists. They start of as a curated list of awesome resources, but once they get popular they just get overrun with all & sundry so they’re just lists of not-necessarily-awesome things.

It’s interesting to see that issue though, at least someone has acknowledged the problem in this case, but I’m not sure how productive an issue like that can be? It does have some specifics but it also kinda just says “remove things which are not awesome and add things which are awesome”. Some privacy things are so divisive.

Checkout the “awesome self hosted” list at github.

They pre-install ublock origin basically.

In my experience this is one of those things where you’ll never find something that’s perfect, and have to settle for something.

I’ve been using metalsmith for years. The plugin ecosystem is a bit of a mess these days I think. IDK what else is available so can’t make a recommendation.

Check out jamstack.org

Zettel notes for android. It’s not the same but similar enough.

I use syncthing + zettlr.

Basically, just sync a folder rather than trying to find the perfect notebook app.

I use borgmatic & rsync.net

Does duplicati have to do periodic full backups?

I’ve used borgbackup / borgmatic. One full backup and only incrementals thereafter.

Yeah I’ve definitely reduced the load.

There’s a lot of things that are just unnecessary.