Self-hosting Standard Notes on your Synology NAS
You can self-host Standard Notes on your Synology NAS to gain private end-to-end encrypted notes and files securely accessible via the Standard Notes app on all your devices, even when you are on the go and on an external network. All data will be stored on your personal NAS system in the privacy of your own home.
Once inside your server via command line, change your working directory to the location you'd like to place your Standard Notes related data. In this example, we've chosen /volume1/MySharedFolder. You can navigate to this folder via:
By default, the server will run on port 3000 of your NAS server. You can change this by modifying EXPOSED_PORT in the .env file, located in self-hosted/.env.
During the first start of the server, the infrastructure must create and setup your database. This can take some time, depending on your system. In our tests on a Synology DS220, this process took about 15 minutes. You can run ./server.sh status to observe real-time status and logs.
You're now up and running with Standard Notes on your Synology NAS! You can verify your server is working by accessing the server endpoint from a web browser by visiting http://{YOUR_SERVER_IP}:3000.
