Hi selfhosters 👋
After the feedback I received from self-hosters here and elsewhere, I focused this update on things that matter specifically when you run everything on your own infrastructure.
This update adds:
- 🔗 Generate public shareable links for your projects
- 🗂 Organize everything using folders
- 🖼 Export a full project as a single image
But more importantly for this community:
- 🔌 Connect to GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and Forgejo
- 🏠 Use it with self-hosted Git servers
- 🔐 Provide a personal access token to work with private repositories
Several people mentioned the need to work with private repos and internal Git instances without relying on external services. You can now point Ideon to your own server and use your own token. No third-party dependency required.
Installation is still designed to stay simple. One curl command:
- Downloads the docker-compose.yml
- Downloads the env.example
- Generates all required secrets securely
- Prompts you for SMTP, app URL, port, etc.
- Starts the containers
No repo cloning. No manual secret generation. No external SaaS. Everything runs in two containers: app and database.
GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon
Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs
As always, I’m open to feedback. If you self-host it and hit friction anywhere, I want to know.
Wow, this looks like it has the potential to become something very very special. I already love the various forge integration possibilities and with a couple more upcoming block types (already dreaming of Nextcloud integration or perhaps even custom blocks) this could be an amazing planning hub.
Well done, I’ll definitely keep an eye on this!
Thanks so much! Really happy to hear that, it means a lot ❤️. I’m obviously looking forward to adding more block types and integrations, and ideas like Nextcloud or custom blocks are definitely on the roadmap.
Looks like a cool idea! I could see the mappings getting out of hand real quick if you actually braindumped everything in there. I think it needs some more collapsing functionality so i can close sections when im not focused on them.
True, everything is everywhere and this aims to put everything in one place… but that can be equally detrimental to ALWAYS have everything in one place. I guess you have some “control” in how far you put things from each other, but probably needs more tooling besides that for organization and especially “archiving”.
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I see what you mean, once people start dumping a lot of content, managing everything can get tricky. I actually use Ideon myself to develop the app and track progress, and honestly I’m not quite at that “large-scale brain dump” stage yet 😅. Nvm this is just the beginning, and I’m continuously improving the organization features !
This is something I didn’t know I needed. Definitely going to spin this up and try it out.
Awesome! Enjoy testing it out :D
is this just obsidian, but in the web ?
It’s similar to the canvas in Obsidian, but otherwise they’re nothing alike.
