# Discourse as a personal-wiki note-taking markdown-editor local app

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**Created:** [January 29, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289 "2024-01-29T12:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289/7 "2024-01-30T17:00:10Z")

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A very novel suggestion. 💡

My main issue with using Discourse this way would simply be expense …

Setting up a personal Discourse in the cloud and making it a private instance would, imho, be the way to go as this would ensure stability, easy upgradability and you could do all the nice back-up in the cloud things.

But that is not a super cheap option as you are going to have to pay for all the usual self-hosting costs although it’s not going to send many emails which will save you a bunch!

You could leverage an existing Domain though, and stick it on a special subdomain:

`notes.mydomain.com`

But then again, benefits:

- always available in the cloud on all your devices, both desktop and mobile.
- the experience of running your own instance (if you don’t do so already) and that it would be a very rewarding and potentially educational experience.

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