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    I did this once. After some research I ended up using DokuWiki. It worked pretty well, I stuck with it for a few years. I liked how the database was just the filesystem, my backups were just tarballs of the data directory.

    My main gripe, and the reason why I’ve moved over to google keep + workflowy, is that it was difficult to edit pages while using my phone.

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      That’s a good point about editing it on mobile, that might be a sore spot.

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        I had the same problem recently, I got pretty annoyed by the editor on my iPhone’s Safari so I’ve started a side project recently to sync Markdown on Dropbox into DokuWiki (https://github.com/milanaleksic/notesforlife). There are many very good mobile Markdown editors that can store into Dropbox… Now I’m happy since dokuwiki backup is trivial, it has search… everything I need