Basically, I want to scrapbook/journal digitally for the purpose of preserving a record of my life. I feel like something like a website would be perfect--I love the way you can organize things through a website, and I love the creativity you can employ. I also like having the option to share things with others if I want to.

I created a Wix website for this purpose, and I love it. I have a blog section with categories for the different areas of my life. I love that you can tag them, so that ten years from now I could search for "May 2022" and see what I was thinking and what was going on. I know I could probably do this in a digital journal of some kind, but I REALLY like that I could create pages for specific things, and I love that I can decorate the website.

Two problems: a website is public, and/or it costs money. For my purposes, I could keep my Wix website free, but there's no option for it to be totally private. Squarespace allows you to keep a private website, but it costs money (I also don't like how you can't add pictures in the body of your blog posts). WordPress is too complicated for me to get a grip on.

Any ideas? Notion is a great app, I've been using it for journaling for some time, but I don't like the lack of customizability.

Optimally, there would be easy-to-use software to create a private website, something that you might have to pay for in one payment to have forever, or else very low monthly payments (I pay $5 a month for Notion, that's doable). But I don't want to pay like $15 for this private website that I plan to have for a long, long time. It should probably be web-based or Cloud-compatible so that I won't lose it all if my comp goes down.

Any ideas?