I’ve been using Planka (https://planka.app/) for years, to manage my to-do lists and other general lists of things (like gifts given, movies I want to watch and so on). But it’s been ages since I looked around for other, better apps. I really like the kanban board / trello approach they use as the lists are easy to maintain, add items to, and I can see the whole list in one glance.
I don’t need fancy stuff (teams features, sharing, advanced triggers or other automation). It’s just for me, running on my home server. Apps should be FOSS and installable via docker, ideally. I’ve looked at a few of the apps on selfh.st ( https://selfh.st/apps/?search=to-do ) but nothing stood out as really interesting.
Any apps you think of as new and interesting in this area?
Thanks!
EDIT: I’ve installed Vikunja and I’m giving it a try. So far, it was super easy to install and get started with. We’ll see how it looks after a few days, but thanks all for the ideas shared here. 👋🙂
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I’ve been self hosting https://usememos.com/ for the past 6 months on my Tailnet and its been working great without issues
Oh! I love my Memos app for general note taking but for making lists that I can find / add to / prune quickly, I’ve had less luck with it. I am probably just stuck in my ways but I’m going to keep looking. Thanks anyway.
Obsidian ain’t that bad, its pretty overkill and not exactly open source but it is nice when I’m using syncthing with it and have access to community plugins, I just noticed recently umbrel even added a obsidian app to their store so self hosting it doesn’t seem like a crazy issue to me idk about if self.st has obsidian on it or not but its an option at least.
I stuck with superproductivity. It supperts boards (you can configure your own board, but kanban and eisenhower are build in i think (i dont use that feature) i like how they handle projects and task storage. They have a philosophy of not adding task from a project to the daily clutter, you chose yourself. If helps to not feel overwhelmed and it can store tasks.
Its not that good for lists of things imo, its better for for timetracking. But you can create a task and easily do subtasks and use it as a list. Also I think it is installable via docker but I don’t know, I havent used docker, but a search gave some results.
This may not qualify since its technically a notes app I guess, but I do use it also for to do lists: https://github.com/ZhFahim/anchor
Thanks, I had not heard of that before. The UI looks really nice but I don’t see the same flexible list making that I am looking for. I will check this out if nothing else comes along.
It’s funny how this works… Right after submitting this I stumbled upon Vikunja. https://vikunja.io/
It looks good, at a glance. Anyone with experience using it?
I love it. Use it for shared shopping list with my wife.
I use it daily. I like it a lot. I’ve hooked my voice home assistant into it to create tasks. The Android app is alright. I have some problems with the widget not updating properly, but I think that was my fault for not turning on automatic sync.
The docker setup was trivial.
Use the tasks.org app and webdav to connect to vikunja. Works really well.
I’ve taken a brief look at it. The ui is fairly slick, but you have to use it their way and it doesn’t have a cli. How much that matters is up to you.
https://vikunja.io/docs/cli/ Also it supports webdav so you can use it however you like.
For todo I use my Radicale instance and Tasks.org as my mobile client. It’s all treated as CalDAV which I was already using so it’s convenient
I’ve used planify before but not extensively. I mostly track tasks in Obsidian.
Instead of new and exciting, how about old and boring? https://taskwarrior.org/
Sync server is self hosted, it’s more configurable and programmable than anything else and has a variety of front ends on different platforms.Thanks but CLI only is a deal breaker for me.
Fair enough! The lack of a cli is the deal breaker for Vikunja for me.
There is a WASM ticket being worked on that once it is completed will allow for all sorts of fancy web UIs for TaskWarrior as standalone PWAs or whatever. I should check in on how that’s going.
Nextcloud and Jtxboard
