[Solved] I want to ditch Nextcloud notes

Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 41 points –

Hi.

I'm curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I'm willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I've tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I've tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I've missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It's dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

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There are other note apps that can sync with Nextcloud. I settled on Quillpad because of its checklist functionality, though admittedly it's not perfect.

I've been using the most recent fork and it was good, but as I said, I want to ditch Nextcloud as a whole.

As someone who is looking into having a nextcloud server running in the near future, may I ask why?

Overbloated, slow and there's always a problem needing to be solved

It can be slow out of the box, but if you set up locking/memcaching (I use APCu+redis), it's way faster.

I get not wanting to mess with it though. I was at that point until I got more free time. Now I have mine running smoothly, but I had to put in maybe 10 hours to iron out all the things, although that includes upgrading the host OS because it had gotten old. If I had a full time job, I'd probably just pay for a fully hosted NC.

Do you have any guide on this to put me on tracks ?

Most guides are for the initial setup, so if you are not starting from scratch, YMMV.

This is the one that put me on the right track, but it's for older version of Ubuntu, so it's not exact step-by-step because it's old.

https://bayton.org/docs/nextcloud/installing-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-with-redis-apcu-ssl-apache/

A more updated guide to the same basic setup, but i've never used it so I can't vouch for whether it is accurate:

https://www.knthost.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-memory-caching-with-apcu-and-redis

(edit: I just checked and it is accurate, but it just hand-waves away the redis setup. which is not insignificant)

Here is the NC docs page.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html

Note: If you are short on RAM or want the simpler version for home/lan use, you can just set up APCu and get a decent performance boost. I got better performance with both: APCu for file locking along with redis for memcaching. But setting up both will be a bit more complicated to setup and maintain.

Six months ago, I was exactly where you are, but updating host OS, then updating Nextcloud to 27, and setting up memcaching worked great for me. Get everything updated before doing the setup, though, or you'll break shit and have to troubleshoot.

I'm ditching my nextcloud as well. It's just way too bloated. I wish they offered a stripped down version with only the features you want to use.