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Self-Hosting community has multiple options for project management, with Kanban Boards, but some of them are complex to setup, some of them are complex to use, and some of them have paywalls. The only one easy, simple to use, and dynamic enough to handle everything you throw at it is Planka. It’s where I started … Read more
Komodo is another Docker Management application, it’s not as well known as Portainer but it is perfect for self-hosting community members who run a finite number of applications in Docker. In some scenarios, Komodo is more intuitive and user-friendly when managing multiple docker environments. Unlike other similar tools, Komodo doesn’t have a paid version, but … Read more
Diun is an application that is embraced by the self-hosting community and for the right reasons. In recent years, many people have entered the self-hosting with old hardware with a Linux OS, which can run docker applications. This has helped a lot of people to make life easier one way or the other. There are … Read more
Portainer is one of the most loved tools by the self-hosting community, as it allows you to easily manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI environments. Not only that, it has an open source, community edition as well as an enterprise edition which provides professional support with some additional features to the Portainer interface. The Portainer … Read more
MusicBrainz-Picard is a multi-platform python application which can help you tag your music collection. It allows you search the MusicBrainz database for the information of the files you have provided based on the filename, already existing tags and the acoustic fingerprints. If you are hosting music library on your QNAP device, you can fix all … Read more
Evernote was a great notes taking application, with one of the best features set in the market and it has been there for years. Although Evernote exceeds in few options like the online editor and stuff, it has a paywall for extensive features. Joplin is a perfect replacement for it with similar features for the … Read more
If you are avid reader and have a significant amount of books in different format on your computer, Calibre is an application you should really checkout to manage the library. Calibre has been a go-to software for local personal library management for years, but now it has a web interface which has almost all the … Read more
Paperless is one of the most advanced self-hosted document manage with a number of host apps on iOS as well as Android. If you use Adobe Scan, or similar apps to scan your documents and store the scanned files on premises using this self-hosted solution. If you add a couple of more services, you can … Read more
If you are done setting up plex, the next application you might want on you want to host on your QNAP device is something to stream your music on all your devices and users. There are many options here as well, but very few of them support podcast as one of the components. Ampache requires … Read more
If you own a NAS system, chances are you want it to be able to stream your owned media as well. QNAP does a good job of providing media streaming services but those have limited features. he 2 names which come up often for self hosting streaming videos, movies and TV Series are Plex and … Read more