Software Alternatives & Reviews

What are some lesser known services that have made your life better?

Minio Yopass PrivateBin Trilium Notes Baïkal Wiki.js Minimalist Web Notepad Kasm Domestica TailScale
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    Minio is an open-source minimal cloud storage server.
    Do you have any suggestions on optimising min.io? I tried setting it up once as an endpoint for restic and could only ever get 40MB/sec out of the pair vs 400ish MB/sec out of zfs send between the same machines on a 10gig network. I am not sure if it was restic or Min.io or a combination.

    #Cloud Storage #Cloud Computing #Object Storage 154 social mentions

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    Yopass is a project for sharing secrets in a quick and secure manner*.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Secure Document Sharing #Note Taking #Password Management 9 social mentions

  3. PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Design Playground #JavaScript #Links 32 social mentions

  4. Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Evernote is a bit of a different product imo and can totally see how it would be a problem for long term document storage. I used it more for a personal brain dump spot (recipes, how to do various tasks, research information). I have migrated that to Trilium for a while now and am way happier. https://github.com/zadam/trilium.

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions

  5. Cal and CardDAV server
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I use Baïkal as CalDAV / CardDAV server and manage my calendars and my todo lists (with many, many recurring tasks) using that. Works great in collaboration with Tasks for Android. On Android, I use DAVx⁵ to not only sync tasks, but calendars and contacts as well. Etar is a nice calendar that works with that.

    #Network & Admin #Email #Email Clients 22 social mentions

  6. An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git, and Markdown.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Https://js.wiki/ has helped me move away from Notion.

    #WiKi #Knowledge Base #Documentation 67 social mentions

  7. Simple open source text editor in the cloud.

    #Note Taking #Text Editors #Notes

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    Kasm Workspaces is a workspace streaming platform for delivering browser, desktop, and application workloads to the web browser.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    Kasm self-hosted. It's a slick Docker-based remote Desktop environment and Browser Isolation environment.

    #Office & Productivity #Security & Privacy #DaaS 26 social mentions

  9. Manage your budgets, tasks, recipes and more with one simple app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Domestica also has a YNAB clone built-in, amongst other things. The self-hosted / free version has limitations, but I believe the budget portion is not limited: https://about.domestica.app.

    #Budgeting #Recipes #To-do 32 social mentions

  10. Private networks made easy Connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    It's not 100% self hosted but I use Tailscale to access all my homelab services without opening ports.

    #Security & Privacy #VPN #Cloud VPN 503 social mentions

  11. Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    A friend just sent me this, from the Mattermost team. I have yet to try it out Https://focalboard.com.

    #Project Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 2 social mentions

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