Wanted: chronological note taking

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I’m looking but not finding an add on to help me keep track of things related to HA.

UI
At it’s simplest I want two tabs or cards, one for input and one for reading, although a combined card could also work.

Writing
For input, I want to type some text and save. This records the text and when it was created. I may edit it later but it’s the creation date that I want. Nice to have would be a easy to add tags similar to those we have here when creating a post. The ability to attach photos or other media would be nice to have.

Reading
When reading these notes I’d like a chronological rendering of the complete notes. Optional search by keyword, and optionally filter by tags, resulting in a chronological list of the full notes (not links or previews unless that’s optional) based on creation date. Jump forward or back maybe. I don’t expect to make that many notes so probably not important for me.

Purpose - a home assistant diary
I’d like to record certain actions so I know what I did when under different headings (ie tags). Things like moved a device, or did a calibration, or fixed a leak in the roof. Tags would be things like leaks, roof, damp etc. This is not a task manager or a calendar, but a list of notes by creation date.

If you know of something that provides even a subset of this with good UX I’d like to hear. I don’t have time to build myself but one day it’s the kind of project I’d used to get started.

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I use the MkDocs add-on to keep a journal of changes. You can edit in the File Editor and the add-on gives a web UI for reading. There’s nothing automatic about it though.

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Thanks, good to know there’s something. I’m surprised there doesn’t appear to be anything - it seems like a core function.

Do others not keep notes or do you use something outside HA?

BTW your link is a local IP but I found this intro post on the forum:

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For me, this…