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How to synchronise Joplin notes to AWS S3

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +1000

Introduction

AWS S3 support is currently in beta for Joplin, but it seems to have all the functionality necessary and has been working very smoothly across multiple devices for me. I couldn’t find any steps when I first set it up so here’s a guide on how to set it up.

The pricing for S3 is available here.

NOTE: if you’re eligible for AWS free tier you will receive 5 GB of storage for free during your first 12 months

Moving notes from Google Keep to Joplin

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

As part of my new years resolution to be more privacy conscious, I’ve tried to migrate as many of my Google services to open-source alternatives as possible. After some investigation Joplin seemed to be a suitable alternative to Google Keep, my primary notes manager.

Although Google Keep is more for “sticky” notes and Joplin is more like Evernote where it is supposed to hold virtual notebooks, it’s a pretty good alternative. I like the in-built synchronisation and end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support, and it’s nice having multiple notebooks for categorising my notes.

How to secure your nginx & Cloudflare configuration to stop any origin leaks

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I decided to write this as although a lot of guides on the internet provide a solid configuration for an nginx server, most of these guides will result in an IP leak somewhere under their configuration for the origin server somewhere.

So you got your nginx server setup (hopefully) and it’s serving your files (or being an effective reverse proxy), but maybe you’ve noticed loading static content (images, media, etc) load slowly… or maybe you realised that anyone can get the IP address of your website and therefore the box which is hosting it, and that creeps you out a bit. Or maybe your website doesn’t have that padlock everyone else’s has and it’s “not secure”. Luckily all these issues can be solved by Cloudflare! Or maybe your website is going through Cloudflare but sometimes you notice your origin server is still publicly displaying the website, and you want to stop this leak.