Good day self-hosters! I’m not exactly sure what to call what I’m looking for besides a “clipboard”. Let me describe my problem and what my ideal solution is.
At work, I get a lot of slack DMs that ask for the same information. It’s not consistent to the point I would just pin the information in my Windows 11 clipboard. But it’s often enough that I’d prefer to give people the same information each time it’s asked.
I’m limited in what I can build on my work computer. In an ideal world, I’d do what Gilfoyle did and make and bot but I lack the time and skills for such a task. Right now, I solve this with a very long notepad, which is subject to copy/paste errors. If I don’t highlight everything correctly or if I accidentally copy over an existing line. That kind of thing.
What I was thinking was a very simple website where the items I’m copying are in tiles that can be tagged and searched. Once I find what I’m looking for, I can click the button to copy it to my clipboard and then go on with my life.
Due to restrictions on my work computer, I cannot host containers or host a website, though a fully self-contained HTML page with javascript I could do… Ideally this is something that can be build using Github Pages build with Jekyll but so far, I haven’t found a theme that mimics the behavior I’m looking for and I lack the time (though not the skills) to build it.
I’d prefer the github route so that I can share the page with others on my team who get asked similar questions.
I am also able to deploy a website via Github Pages (with .nojekyll).
I have to think something similar to this already exists but I imagine the restrictions on having no backend might be the challenge. Love to hear your thoughts!
Edit: added context for Gilfoyle
Thank you all for the great suggestions. I should have added in this post that my work does not allow software with Copyleft (Don’t get me started. I’m a strong copyleft advocate and it annoys me that my company only takes and never gives back to OSS). I’m going to give TiddlyWiki out. License is friendly with my work, seems simple enough to run.
That said, Logseq seems to be pretty interesting as well. Might try this out on my on machine to see if I like it.
Company has a wiki, but doesn’t have the feature of doing a tag-based search. It wouldn’t be much better than my notepad, though the benefit would be that it could copy html.
I can install apps but it has to clear cyber security.
Well that’s unfortunate.
Maybe Ditto will clear the security team. Hell, they might love it and be grateful to learn about it.
I’d think being in the MS store would help a little.
Try it on your personal machine, I can’t live without it, and everyone I’ve shown it to says “why isn’t this part of windows”?
I reviewed it and it looks like they use a proprietary license. Unless I missed something.
And MS Store doesn’t help. Each program that shows up on my work’s MS Store is approved.
As for trying it myself, I use Linux as my main workhorse. 😜
Copyq is now your friend.