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Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I've made and see if it helps. It's not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.
This is what led me to set up SnipeIT and keep a log on every change on each device. It gets wild as the devices and services increase.
I've seen the app rolling around in Awesome Lists, but always thought it was for larger operations with a lot of infrastructure and not necessarily a home lab. I might look into it seriously.
I have it for my home and office. Nice piece of software honestly.
I'll check it out. I do keep prolific notes on everything I do, however they need to be more structured and searchable. Right now I'm using Trillium but it has it's limitations for what I want it to do. Nice piece of software tho.
I tried trillium, but turns out I can't organize anything to save my life, so now I run Obsidian for notes and snipe for all my networks and devices.
I tried Obsidian, and it is a very capable piece of software. However, I wanted it to run in a docker container. Running in a container, it uses KasmVNC. So, every doccument you wish to save in Obsidian, you first have to paste into KasmVNC's clipboard, then paste it into the doccument. I found that quite clumsy.
If I'm doing it wrong, please share. Obsidian was my first choice.
Oh, I just install Obsidian in all my devices (laptop, PC, phone and tablet) and then sync them all via Syncthing. No docker, no server, just sync the Obsidian folder on each device.