I’ve been continuing to rely on
- Lightning calendars for Thunderbird
- Reminders are locally set in Thunderbird
- CalDAV from Nextcloud Calendar
- Not really sure of how to handle reminders in Calendar itself
- Fossify Calendar for Android, from F-droid
- Supports adding a reminder to a CalDAV event and to set an event as recurring
- Tasks oscillate between Nextcloud Tasks, Deck and Kanboard
- Kanboard is complex, but far better featured than Tasks or Deck, so I prefer it. Still struggling managing too many tasks on Kanboard because of the interface, but once an item is added it works well.
- Markdown, is a way I find myself adding tasks using
- [ ]syntax, but these are not visible in Thunderbird, etc. so not totally helpful. :(
Thunderbird integrates into Knotifications in KDE and does give me nice, annoying alarms. Would love to explore other solutions, but this one has been okay for the last years. Wondering if this longtime setup could be refined or replaced. Cheers, and thanks for any suggestions!
I wonder if it is possible to get the calendar in Thunderbird to take appointments from my Android phone’s calendar.
Depends on how you are syncing your calendars between devices afaik
Gave up on other people’s solutions and wrote a giant shell script that does exactly what I want it to do. Calendar, tasks, reminders, everything. This is the promise of free computing! (Well, you did ask.)
Does you script handle syncing between devices?
Absolutely. A mix of
sshfs,rsync,unison. Only standard core utilities.
CalDAV is all you need
I setup Nextcloud and then realised no one used it’s Calendar, or contacts, or basically anything - it was just being used as a sync hub for phones.
So, I ditched it for Radicale. Waaay less maintenance.
DAVx5 on the phones with Fossify Calendar & Tasks(.org) apps from FDroid.
They do all the alerting.
On the desktop Vivaldi has a good built-in Calendar, so I use that (although I’ve only just noticed it doesn’t show Tentative appointments at all)
For work, I use Logseq (for everything) & to keep a note of ToDo items that I don’t need reminders for (otherwise Tasks is overwhelming)
And for bonus points, Home Assistant has a CalDAV module so domestic things like waste collection are sync’d from Radicale too so there’s a notification on the kitchen display each morning to tell me what coloured box, bin, bag needs to be taken out today.
And… (some time management advice thst you didn’t ask for) - I’m currently starting timeboxing - so instead of creating a todo item, just schedule the time to actually do it in. Less ToDos, but more progress (I hope)
Thanks. I didn’t know that process was called timeboxing.
selfhosted radicale
davx5 on phone korganizer on desktop
How do you like korganizer?
The UI is passable at best, but it has all the features I need and it works bugfree.
I tried merkuro before and while it is much prettier I had lots of strange issues and crashes with it.
But I recommend trying it out for yourself and seeing what works for you.
ps: before radicale, I had nextcloud on a rpi but after an automatic plugin update it died and I could not fix it. So I’ve replicated the features I need among alternatives: radicale, sftpgo, syncthing and navidrome.
I use a paper agenda that I check every day. I also check up the rest of teh week and the month page summary, to get an idea of what’s to come.
selfhosted radicale Tasks.org on Android Thunderbird on Computer
I mostly use my phone, Tasks is great! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks
Thanks
Thanks
I use Todoist for tasks/reminders. Works great on Linux for me.
This is the only app I’ve never changed in the last decade (or for how long they have existed). Sometimes I see something new come by and I wonder if I need to switch, but Todoist just works for me. All others (notetaking, calendar, browser, etc.) have changed multiple times, but this one is steady. Also just the right amount of updates and changes.
Thanks, I’ll look into it
Nextcloud includes caldav.
- linux Gnome with calendar and task app
- android with fossify calendar and jtx board
It may not be the fanciest setup but it just works withiut problems.
Edit: davx5 of course
Sounds like you and I have mostly the same setup
Android phone.
Just whatever is included?
Basically. Email is K9, reminders, notes, tasks, events and calendar is all Google. I don’t really use much of it, just very basic stuff.
You strike me as a user who’d benefit greatly from minimizing tool counts–this is a lot of steps for what a small pocketbook and pen can accomplish.[Also very little can match the pen/paper combo’s security levels]
With all that said, I know paper can’t grab your attention on its own, for this reason I overlap with tuta calendar (Which should be a reasonable level of security and convenience imho).
When you using that many separate techs, it has to almost feel like the tools themselves require more attention and care than the work you need planned and structured.
I personally use pen and paper predominantly. The tools built up over years, so it is more cruft from time. They mostly work together because it is Caldav from Nextcloud -> Thunderbird or Dax5 + Mobile Calendar app. Just find any of them do not work in quite the way I would prefer. You know?
Default clock/alarm app in GrapheneOS, or Tuta calendar app (also on GrapheneOS). I don’t rely on my desktop or laptop for any reminders since I don’t always have one of those running near me, especially not unmuted
I use same for the sake of guaranteed getting the alarm.
I think this might be more of a selfhosting question, so maybe better for that sub.
I use Proton for business since it runs on everything. Zero issues.
I’m doing this off mostly hosted, so was hoping there are tools I’ve missing out on. Sounds like others here are using the same tools as me. 🤷
I use Trello to organize my life, because every other solutions I’ve tried aren’t enough to keep up in the long run, unfortunately. I even considered developing an open-source clone of it, but never dive into doing it (yet).
