If you already run NextCloud, then NextCloud Memories (not photos) is very good.

Nextcloud maps works reasonably well although mobile view isn’t great.

That’s the beauty of next cloud in my opinion. You only need to enable the apps that you need. It would be nice if there was a little bit better discovery when it comes to finding apps. The app store is useful but only internal next cloud apps seem to be promoted there.

You’re on the right track with nextcloud however using the built-in photos app is going to be very slow. You should install the nextcloud memories app and you will see a very significant improvement in speed.

Trillium has attributes which are very similar and very versatile.

There is a mobile view plugin that makes the mobile pwa much more usable.

You can easily set up trilium notes via docker compose. That comes with excalidraw bundled in 👍

The two main ones that come to mind that I use are open sense and home assistant which both have add-ons to backup directly to next cloud

Otp manager is a well integrated 2fa code app Many services like opnsense and others have backup features that integrate with nextcloud.

Memories photos is really good.

This repo may help: https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Also not trying to be mean, but energy in the US is generally very cheap ($0.12/kwh where I am). With more regulation of the market, the reliability would probably increase but so would the price! (I see this happen first hand since I work in the industry)

If if you already run a nextcloud server you should use nextcloud talk. It has web and mobile apps.

^this. You probably had a Nextcloud client somewhere with wrong credentials that was trying to reconnect repeatedly which locked you out. It happened once to me.

Do you mean Memories?

Probably using Nextcloud Memories. Its very performant.

Nextcloud Memories is very fast. Photos is indeed a nightmare.

I also useTrilium but I have to say that the mobile experience is pretty poor. You loose the ability to add labels and most of the desktop features are stripped away. If all you need is to simple read and write, then the mobile web app may suffice. There is also a bug where many android keyboards cause typed characters to duplicate (a ckeditor bug)

I’m still sticking with Trilium because the desktop app is super. I’m definitely looking forward to a mobile app at some point (its bound to be developed by someone!)

See here for a good comparison of your options: https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

^ This. The Android app is quite nice. For iOS readers, you should use netnewswire

Nextcloud Memories has good video transcoding support.