I want to remove #Google Notes from my life, so...
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I want to remove #Google Notes from my life, so I was looking around ...

3:37 Dec 25, 2025 142,700 5,456
@benjaminspowell
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I want to remove Google Notes from my life. And I was looking around at what are the options for self-hosting note apps. There's a ton of them, but I came across this one, Memos. And it is so light and fast. I just had to show you. I'm going to show you how to set this up using Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi because it will run it on a Raspberry Pi. I'm going to assume that you have a Raspberry Pi, you've installed Ubuntu Server 24, you've set it up and you have logged in using SSH. That's where I'm up to now. I'm going to sudo apt-get update. Should always, every time you log in, just update. Clear that. I'm going to assume that you don't have Docker. We've just, we'll go through that little installation. Sudo apt-get install yca-certificates and curl and gnupg. Okay, clear that. Now I'm just going to copy and paste this in here. Feel free to stop and have a look, but I'm doing an install. So just run that. I already have it, as you can tell, and I will clear that. Okay, now again, copying this in. You should already have Docker and stuff installed, but if you don't, I will run it for you. Done, cleared that. Now I will sudo apt-get update again because I've just done some installs and set things up. As you see, a lot quicker this time because there's not a lot to update. Clear that. Now I will sudo apt-get install-y docker-ce docker-ce-cli-tain-io docker-build-x-plugin and docker-compose-plugin, clear. And you would want to make sure you add your users. So sudo superuserdo usermodification, usermod-a-g docker, and then $USER, clear, done. Now let's actually do the install. That was all of the setup. So I need to superuserdo make directory-p forward slash opt forward slash memos forward slash data. Then I want to sudo chown, not chown, as I keep getting told, space capital R. Then I need to add the permissions for my $USER Poland to $USER, quotation, forward slash opt memos. So it has permissions to access that file and everything in it, or that folder and everything in it. Then I want to go into the folder. So cd forward slash opt forward slash memo. Then I want to create a docker-compose. So nano to open a file editor, docker-compose yml. Now I'm going to copy paste this in. I suggest you do the same. Then Control-O and then Enter and Control-X. Now I should be able to go docker-compose up. It happened so quick, I didn't even notice. Now I'm going to go to the IP address and the port number. 2.168.60.101 or 5230. Wow, it's so quick. I'm going to create a username and a password and I'm going to sign up. Oh my Lord, it is so quick. This is so stunning. There's a ton of stuff you can do. You've got your explore, you can add attachments. I'll just upload a nice little image. Save, boom, memos by dates. I haven't done anything. Then you've got, there's a whole lot of theme and preferences. You can add multiple members to this. There's so much you can do. But as far as an incredibly fast, simple, clean self-hosted notes app. I mean, how quick was that?

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