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 an 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!
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just to give you the term to search for, these types of applications are called snippet managers. for example, https://snibox.github.io/
there’s a ton of them around. I don’t have a particular one that I recommend, since it’s not something I use in my workflow.
Ah…I never thought about it that way but you are right! Snibox wouldn’t work for my use case but a quick google search came up with a few possible ones.
Thank you!
We have a git repo full of markdown files, I made this template repo https://github.com/mhzawadi/doc-store-template from it
TiddlyWiki might be a good option. Technically it’s a wiki, but it is a single HTML page with all functionality built in JavaScript, you could host it on GH pages, though you wouldn’t be able to use its save feature there (you would have to save to your local machine and the deploy a new version). It stores text in little (or large) cards which can be given a title, tags and other metadata, and it providesa full search system.
This comes the closest so far.
The saving feature might be the deal breaker, unless it can be done via a file (json, yaml, etc) that is committed along with the page. I’ll explore this more. Thanks for the suggestion
Can you install apps on your work machine?
I’ve used Ditto as a clipboard manager on Windows for going on 20 years. Unbeatable.
You can manage clips in it extensively, it’s scriptable, hot keys, groups, etc.
It’s also in the MS App Store
Edit: Just noticed you want something shareable, like a web page. Does your company not have a wiki?
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. 😜
I’d just create a matrix room and invite everybody
Or a markdown document synced with nextcloud
I can’t host a matrix instance and would be overkill for what I’m trying to do.
Markdown isn’t any better than my current method of writing in a text file. I don’t need synchronization.
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