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. 👋🙂

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I have been looking for a good to-do ecosystem for so long that I ended up with pen and paper. Hear me out. I bought very nice a6 paper notebook and very comfortable ball pen an I just enjoy having this one non-digital, offline thing. After years of not writing with pen and doing most of my life management digitally, having this one thing this way… It’s hard to explain but I enjoy. I even try to write with nice joined-up writing, because it’s not like in school when I had to write a lot fast. No, every to-do is a few words or a sentence and thus I can take time and write nicely. At the beginning of the notebook I have next todos section, in the middle I have in progress long term todos and at the back I have inbox.

      • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        Not really, I have them home at my desk. When I have something I need to add when I am not home I usually add it to the self-message on Signal which I basically use as inbox for all sorts of ideas anyway.

        • perishthethought@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          … add it to the self-message on Signal which I basically use as inbox for all sorts of ideas anyway.

          What a genius idea. I just setup a “self” group for this. Thanks!

          • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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            4 hours ago

            I think Signal has this by default. It’s called “note to self”. So not really my idea 😀

  • sumsinj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m sorry but this is kind of a wtf to me. What’s wrong with a text file? I thought I was being fancy by using org mode, which is just a text file with some markup. If you want to be really fancy you could use a bug tracker. fossil-scm.org has a built in one that I might try sometime.

    • sumsinj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Nothig is wrong with a textfile if it works for you. The todo-list apps and time tracking apps just offer easily accessable features like projects, tags, subtasks, maybe some sync festures and import features from some calender or something. So you don’t have to build a system to organize your stuff yourself.