If you use Nextcloud, install the App Memories and you will have the same functions as Immich plus all the upload functions of Nextcloud.

But if you are not interested in all the Nextcloud functionalities (including contact and calendar sync, musicserver, filesharing, etc) and just want picture management, Immich is the better choice.

There is always emacs with org-roam.

Org-roam is kind of a wiki, you write your notes with all the formatting power of an org-file and you can link to other notes you have written.

Of course everything is searchable, with tags, without tags, however you want.

BUT: it takes time to get used to the shortcuts, and it takes a lot of time to configure everything how you like it.

The result is worth it.

Edit: I use Nextcloud to sync my notes accross my devices. On the smartphone there seems to be the App OrgNote available, but I haven’t checked it out, as I don’t use my smartphone that much.

Worked well for me. Although all the people I care about had already Signal, Element or Threema installed, so I am not a great pull factor.

And those everyday moms from child care or from wherever can reach me via SMS, for the two messages/year.

“Microsoft is an evil company, basically the enemy of free software, but here is why you should use their product…”

Booooo

I installed the version from F-Droid-Store, Version 0.6-something. The main problem for me was, that you couldn’t download single songs, only complete albums - and I gave up on the App.

This post made me install the 0.9-beta-APK (directly from github), and it already fullfills all my wishes, you can download single songs now! And I love that you can filter for your favorites and download them all at once. Really looking forward to further process, it’s so promissing.

Memories also uses automatic tagging, so searching for tent and beach would probably get you the same result. But I guess they are not using the best recognition software, I get a few missinterpretations here and there. (My marzipan potatoe with googly eyes is not an ‘Instrument’. But I guess it’s a challange for any software)

If you already use Nextcloud, try the Memorie-Extension. It has all the features of Immich. The tagging-feature for faces has been there for at least the year I am using it now.

I love the additional freedom too.

For me there weren’t even problems with nasty banking apps, all apps from three german banks are working normal.

For all people reading this: there are zero privacy-based limitations with GrapheneOS.