# Using a private Discourse as our own notebook

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-a-private-discourse-as-our-own-notebook/231865>\
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**Created:** [July 4, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-a-private-discourse-as-our-own-notebook/231865 "2022-07-04T10:17:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-a-private-discourse-as-our-own-notebook/231865/1 "2022-07-04T10:17:44Z")

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> [@Discourse is more than I could have asked for](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-is-more-than-i-could-have-asked-for/231817/5):
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> @darkpixlz, you’ll love Discourse and as @MarcP said, you’ll find more stuff to enhance your instance. Discourse as a Personal Assistant/Notebook… now that’s very interesting to me. I will be doing a lot more thinking about this. Thank you for that use case, @MarcP and @Canapin . +1

I’m wondering if other people use their own, private Discourse as a personal notebook.

I’ve always had trouble organizing myself, writing down useful stuff, keeping track of interesting stuff I come across, etc.

I first created my own Discord server to do this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/1/c/51c87f29e70f12c4191360ad6df727ecd73126f4.jpeg)

I did the same with a friend to allow both of us to note in a single space any useful stuff related to Discourse, hosting, servers, coding, etc.

After a while, I decided to migrate all this data to a common, private Discourse instance. Plus, it’s safer because I’m in control of all the data.

My friend doesn’t really use it anymore though he still has access (I sometimes copy links to his intent), so I extended it and now use it, along with the Discourse/servers/coding stuff, to write more personal stuff in it, like songs that I appreciated, movies and books I want to watch/read, the manual of my freezer 😄 and various other stuff.

I’ve started to move the data from my personal Discord server to this Discourse instance, and I’ll continue to do so.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/6/a/56a218a260461533cfbe49a856d7df261a0427a6.png)

I use Discourse pretty much out of the shelf, and only added the [PDF preview component](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-pdf-previews.git).

I host my forum on the [free offer from Oracle](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-on-free-oracle-plan/215749).

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So, I wonder how many people are using their own private Discourse to do such things, and what component/plugins they use?  
Also, where is your Discourse hosted?

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