I tried so many self hosted note taking apps I eventually settled that most are… either crap, or not worth it because you WILL find something which annoys you and you will try to fix it and you’ll get in a vicious cycle… of either performance, usability or security lacking.

1 Zim Wiki is the best if you want to have an easy way to take notes 2. If you want something to be accessible everywhere and in markdown format, just use fossil SCM either as wiki or editing the files manually…

I used to host my own mail servers a long time ago, gave it up, went with a hosted version by a very small company, and began retesting self hosting email with mox in december for a few domains I can say that it works great.

Fighting for your rights… with gdpr, yeah, I’m sometimes doing it, but the problem is, sometimes tcompanies fail to respond … and if they take 30 days… or longer to give a response you’re really at a huge loss

Now, if you’re trying to host it form residential ip address you will have problems namely Your IP will change resulting in issues with sending/receiving email It’s maybe easier to just buy a $5 VPS and host it there, yeah, I know, most providers block those ports unless you’ve been active long enough… but well this is an alternative