Wakil Nibs

Self-hosted tracker for fountain pens and inks.

See what's inked right now, keep photos and handwriting samples, track what everything cost and what shape it's in. Anyone can browse; one password lets you edit. No accounts, no database server, no cloud.

Flask
SQLite
gunicorn
MIT

wakil@wakil.ink ~/wakil-nibs ❯ open screenshots/

Wakil Nibs dashboard in the light theme, showing pen, inked and ink counts, collection totals, and cards for the pens that are inked right now — dashboard, light

The same dashboard in the dark theme — dashboard, dark

pens, list view

Sample data, not my real collection.

wakil@wakil.ink ~/wakil-nibs ❯ ls features/

dashboard/ what's inked now, plus totals for pens, ink, and mL on hand
pens/ inks/ list or grid, sortable by almost anything
status/ loaned, being serviced, broken, sold; inks sold or empty
value/ price on every pen and ink, summed on the dashboard
media/ photo galleries, handwriting samples, a lightbox
bottles/ little ink bottles filled with the ink's actual color
themes/ light and dark

wakil@wakil.ink ~/wakil-nibs ❯ ./install

# try it locally
git clone https://github.com/ItsWakil/wakil-nibs.git
cd wakil-nibs
bash setup.sh

setup.sh makes the venv, asks for a password, and can install a systemd service and an nginx config for you to review. Full instructions are in the README.

wakil@wakil.ink ~/wakil-nibs ❯ ls links/

↗ source on github ↗ issues ← wakil.ink