I use Obsidian.md to keep a diary: writing about events, self reflection etc. I love the app but quick capture is not it's strength. For quick things I use this bot, and then once a month export and save to obsidian.

Microdiary

Telegram bot for keeping a diary or making quick notes.

Just write messages to save them. Use /export to get zip with markdown file containing all messages and all attachments or /clear to get markdown file and clear all messages in db.

Supports text, voice messages(saved as .ogg) and photos(saved as .jpg)

Export example

## 2024
### July
##### 28
19:00
Test message
![[2024.09.03 — 00-08.ogg]]

Deploy

To store messages you can use either local sqlite(will be saved in /app/db/messages.db) or a remote postgres instance(table names are prefixed with Microdiary_ to avoid collisions). To store files you can use filesystem(/app/db/file.ext) or remote s3(minio) instance.

Local db, local files

TG_TOKEN=1337:MICRODIARY
TIMEZONE=Europe/Moscow

(timezone is needed to set message time when exporting)

docker build https://github.com/ze-kel/microdiary.git -t microdiary

docker run --detach --env-file "./.env" --mount source=microdiarydb,target=/app/db microdiary

Remote db, files in s3

TG_TOKEN=1337:MICRODIARY
TIMEZONE=Europe/Moscow
POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://admin:samplepass@localhost:1234/db"
BUCKET_URL="minio-something-something.zekel.io"
BUCKET_NAME="microdiary"
BUCKET_CRED_ID="md"
BUCKET_CRED_SECRET="samplepass"

docker build https://github.com/ze-kel/microdiary.git -t microdiary

docker run --detach --env-file "./.env" microdiary