TLDR: I am building a self-hosted, static site generator that allows me to tag and add notes to my own blogposts and personal writing (that uses a custom HTML layout).

This is my currently 'barely-chugging-along' read-it-later system:

1. 4 XXL notion databases (i don´t want notion to own my data)

  • movies+tv+books

  • CS articles (using the notion web clipper extension)

  • Everything else articles (using using the notion web clipper extension)

  • and a manually filled db with software tools, companies, harware makers, and tools/people/things i want to forget about now, but not later. Unoriginally, i have called it 'Master tool list'.

2. a local folder of ~1K PDFs, organised in subfolders

  • I want to add a notes and tagging system in the future using html pages, and a real DB.

3. Miniflux rss fetcher/reader docker container

4. Youtube playlists (i hate the native yt playlists UI) (i also want to tag + add personal notes)

5. Substack subscriptions (need to move these to rss-->Miniflux)

This is my 'currently-not-working-anymore' writing system:

A nearly one decade running, WP dot org instance; self-hosted locally on docker, used for offline journaling and private note taking (I have decommissioned the container on 2025 bc of high PHP/SQL complexity and server load, compared to the actual notes/blogging needs).

  • I will move all old and new posts to a custom html static self-hosted system, that i have forked off a personal mini-static site generator that I built this year (this static html CMS generator code serves another public blog i run)

I would say I am 2/3 of the way to a working MINIMUM viable product for this read+write personal read-it-later, blog-style web app. It will only face the internet via a private VPN. (I will obviously have write access to the not-yet existent blog folders lol).

This html static site pages structure will host and give me access to my old personal wp dot org (and many other personal scattered posts/notes) that I have written through the years, and take advantage of the tagging system I need for my other content reading-watching needs (movies, yt playlists, articles, pdfs, etc).

I checked web search for the name 'YASS'(yet another static site generator) but even that name is taken... I will keep thinking of untaken, horrible names.

No, I do not want to use Obsidian/Emacs/Etc. No, I do not want to use Hugo/Jekyll/Etc.

As it says on many of my social media handles: I am a simple Computer Science hobbyist, and hobbyist things I feel like coding.

I am everywhere. Thanks for reading!