I kept collecting books, tutorials, courses, and random things I wanted to learn, then forgetting about most of them a week later.

The main problem wasn’t motivation so much as friction. Every study session started with:
“what should I continue today?”

So lately I’ve been experimenting with self-hosting a small app that acts like a backlog/scheduler for learning material.

You dump in things you want to learn, start a session, and it surfaces something from the backlog so you spend less time deciding and more time actually continuing stuff you already started.

I’ve also been trying to keep most things local/self-hostable instead of relying on another cloud productivity service.

Curious how people here handle this problem:

• self-hosted tools for study/knowledge management,
• keeping long-term learning organized,
• or avoiding the graveyard of half-finished courses and notes.

Would also be interested in hearing what features would actually matter in a self-hosted setup vs what’s just productivity-app bloat.

I'm using OffShelf app, but what do you use?