The joke response is that building your own PKMS is the final form of procrastination.
The frustration for me is that I use a PKMS all the time: Google Keep.
Cause what I want from a PKMS is a note book, maybe with a way to tag each note, but only if it’s convenient. The cardinal sin of any PKMS is lack of access. I don’t want my PKMS to show a loading screen when I open it. I don’t want it to bury me in options about what type of note I want to create. I don’t want my PKMS to be loaded with so many features that it takes a second or two to switch screens.
I want it to be easier than the effort it would take to carry a note pad and pencil in my back pocket, and it’s astounding that it’s rare and sad that I have to resort to Google’s blessed tendency to abandon projects like Keep to bare minimum functionality for me to get the app that I want. Will I use Keep for 30 years? Idk, but I’ve been using it for a decade so far but knowing Google it’s any day now that they’ll just announce that they’re canning the whole thing.
Joplin synced with Syncthing had been working pretty well for me. Joplin seems to stay out of my way, but also provide features I want. (With the exception of note sharing, it does offer it, but as far as i know, not to the world, only to other users you create on Joplin cloud/server)
A few years back I had notes scattered around emails to myself, texts to myself, notes in random text files around my laptop, etc. And my passwords were awful insecure.
I finally spent some time to research options And set up stuff, and I’ve settled on Joplin for notes between my phone and Linux laptops, and keepass-xc for passwords, with syncthing syncing everything with my server. This has been working extremely well for me to help keep me organized and not reuse passwords, etc.
And its all local so it scratches that ‘privacy focused’ itch
Trillium Notes is a great open-source alternative that doesn’t have the odd bullet point nature of log-seq.
