datascape

Minimal self-hosted personal wiki. Folders are pages.

Features

• Pages every folder is a page. Place an index.md inside a folder and it renders as HTML. Drop any other files (PDFs, images, etc.) alongside it and they appear in the listing below the content. Navigating to a path that does not exist shows a [CREATE] prompt.

• View settings per folder, display the file listing as a list or thumbnail grid and pick the sort key/order, via the view button in the Files header. See the View Settings section.

• Search search across all page names (folder names) in the wiki, accessible from the navigation bar.

• Wikilinks link between pages with [[Page Name]] syntax. When a page is renamed or moved, all wikilinks pointing to it are rewritten automatically to reflect the new path.

• Movie import import movie entries via the OMDb API. Fetches title, year, runtime, genre, director, cast, plot, and poster, and pre-fills a new page with that metadata.

• Special folder types folders can opt into custom rendering (e.g. a photo diary with calendar navigation). See the Special Folder Types section for details.

• Quick-add bookmarklet save the current browser tab to a predetermined wiki page (e.g. /Topics/Bookmarks/) with one click. See the Quick-Add Bookmarklet section.

Build

# local
go build -o datascape .

# QNAP NAS (linux/arm)
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build -o datascape .

Usage

go run . -dir ./wiki -addr :8080
go run . -dir ./wiki -addr :8080 -user me -pass secret

Flag	Default	Description
-addr	:8080	Listen address
-dir	./wiki	Wiki root directory
-cache	./cache	Thumbnail cache directory
-user	(none)	Basic auth username — omit to disable auth
-pass	(none)	Basic auth password
-reindex-interval	30m	Periodic search index rebuild interval (0 disables)

View Settings

The view button in a folder's Files header sets how its listing renders, persisting three keys to .page-settings:

Key	Values (default first)
view	list, thumbnail
sort	name, modified, size (folders always sort by name, grouped first)
order	asc, desc

Special Folder Types

A folder can opt into special rendering by adding a .page-settings file. The same file also holds the View Settings keys; only the type key selects a special renderer:

type = diary

Diary

Designed for a chronological photo diary. The whole year lives in a single file as ISO-headed sections; photos are loose JPEGs named with a date prefix.

FolderName/
  .page-settings        ← type = diary
  YYYY/
    index.md            ← `# YYYY` + `## YYYY-MM` + `### YYYY-MM-DD` sections
    YYYY-MM-DD Desc.jpg ← photos named with the date they belong to

The year page (YYYY/) renders every section in the file with photos attached to each ### YYYY-MM-DD heading. Months and days the file doesn't yet contain are rendered as virtual headings with an [edit] button that splices a new section into the year file at the right chronological position; virtual day headings still carry photos for that date. Past years render every month/day slot; the current year stops at today; future years skip virtual entries entirely. The file may contain non-date headings (e.g. ## Events → ### Festival between # YYYY and ## YYYY-01); these keep their document position.

A sidebar calendar widget shows one month grid at a time; the month-name button opens a dropdown of all twelve months, and a separate year dropdown jumps between years. Day cells link to the matching anchor on the year page regardless of whether the date has a real section yet.

Persistent date links

Each diary root exposes three stable paths intended for browser bookmarks. They resolve against the year page rather than separate per-day URLs:

Path	Redirects to
<diary>/today/	<diary>/YYYY/#YYYY-MM-DD (or the year file's insert-section editor when today's section doesn't exist yet)
<diary>/this-month/	<diary>/YYYY/#YYYY-MM
<diary>/this-year/	<diary>/YYYY/

Legacy YYYY/MM/ and YYYY/MM/DD/ URLs (no longer the canonical form) redirect to the matching anchor on the year page.

Quick-Add Bookmarklet

Replace wiki.host with your wiki host and /Topics/Bookmarks/ with the destination page (one bookmarklet per target):

javascript:(function(){var s=window.getSelection().toString().trim();var t=s||document.title;var u=location.href;var to='/Topics/Bookmarks/';var q='?to='+encodeURIComponent(to)+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(t);window.open('https://wiki.host/quickadd'+q,'quickadd','width=480,height=320');})();

Each save appends an entry of the following form to the destination page's index.md:

- [Example Page](https://example.com)
  2026-05-11 14:30
  optional comment