Moonrise2473, 23 days ago

I like freescout.

It is well made and aesthetically pleasing but it has four main problems

1. The devs are complete assholes. Ask for a clarification because of missing documentation and they ban you from their GitHub repo without even replying.
2. The program is open source but everything is under closed source paid plugins. Plugin pricing is very cheap and without subscription but in order to get the bare usable minimum you need to spend at least $50 in plugins. I had to compile an excel file with the list of 50+ plugins and rank them, so I could buy the $400 of plugins over an year, buying the most important in the beginning. Then they banned me because after the first purchases I asked help with one of their paid plugins. Well, thanks for let me save $390, I won’t buy anything anymore.
3. Plugins have unfair regional pricing for some reason. $2 becomes €4, even with vat the math doesn’t add up. They take the amount in dollars, convert in local currency using unfavorable exchange rate and rounding up, then they add VAT and round up again. With 40 “must have” plugins, this trick becomes expensive for no reason. Why Europeans have to pay double? It’s a business expense in 90% of cases, so the vat shouldn’t be considered in the price because a business can deduct them.
4. No support. At all. Even if you are willing to pay for it. They don’t want to set a forum, use GitHub discussions or even (ugh, I hate that but better than nothing) discord. For a program that’s used for business this is a bit of a problem. How a company can rely on a software where if something is missing from the documentation and you ask for help, you are simply banned&ignored. You discover than you’re banned when a week later you go to see if someone replied to you. I don’t see why they can’t have a $50/hour support package like anyone else.

As an alternative, there’s uvdesk. It’s similar but when I discovered it I already set freescout with the bare minimum paid plugins like “see all emails”, “see list of customers”, “send later”, “add attachment to the email”.

douglasg14b, 23 days ago

Damn, that’s just cancerous

TonyOstrich, 23 days ago

It might be a bit overboard, but I have a Redmine instance running on my NAS that can likely do everything you want. Some out if the box, some with plugins. It’s pretty nice. If you don’t want to worry about installing it you can download a complete installer from Bitnami.

mlaga97, 23 days ago

My partner and I use a git repository on our self-hosted gitea instance for household management.

Issue tracker and kanban boards for task management, wiki for documentation, and some infrastructure components are version controlled in the repo itself. You could almost certainly get away with just the issue tracker.

Home Assistant (also self-hosted) provides the ability to easily and automatically create issues based on schedules and sensor data, like creating a git issue when when weather conditions tomorrow may necessitate checking this afternoon that nothing gets left out in the rain.

Matrix (also self-hosted) lets Gitea and Home Assistant bully us into remembering to do things we might have forgotten. (Send a second notification if the washer finished 15 minutes ago, but the dryer never started)

It’s been fantastic being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having the automations for creating issues for recurring tasks. “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” And vice versa.

univers3man, 23 days ago

I don’t have any recommendations to make here, I just wanted to chime in and say I am looking for the same tool and I’m glad someone could put into words what I wanted.

conrad82, 23 days ago

I might miss your target, but have you considered tasks.org android app + caldav?

I have been using silverbullet the last few months, but I struggle keeping up with its updates (too bleeding edge at the moment). I has a lot of nice features like all markdown, queries and templates.

Now I am back to tasks.org app + radicale self-hosted caldav server. For tasks it flows so well on android. for windows you need to use something that supports caldav, like thunderbird.

When silverbullet matures and if it is still fast and offline, I might go back. It has a lot of nice stuff going on. I still use for stuff like recipes and travel lists

michel, 23 days ago

@Appoxo

f-droid.org/de/packages/at.tec…
jtx.techbee.at/

It use #CalDAV

cygon, 24 days ago

After finding out that tools that are to “bureaucratic” don’t stick with me (bureaucratic as in, I need to fill out forms to create projects/tasks, update them and follow defined workflows), I ended up with Trilium.

It at first looks like a very free-form note taking app (a tree of documents on the left, click and edit away), but it has a lot of extra functionality that lets you construct journals and tasks lists in the document tree (like its Task Manager which is already set up in the Demo notes of a new Trilium install).

merthyr1831, 24 days ago

appflowy is foss, self-hostable via docker, and supports notes, tables, etc. but also kanban boards which i find useful for self management.

I’m using notion atm (the software appflowy has cloned to bring it to FOSS) as I’ve not set up docker yet :'(

Hegz, 24 days ago

Going to o throw elog elog.psi.ch/elog/ into the mix. I’ve configured it before as a light ticketing system.

perishthethought, 24 days ago

Maybe check out planka?

planka.app

I love it for my personal to do / to watch /etc… lists. It’s like a simple trello alternative. Totally free, OSS.

waz, 24 days ago

I use youtrack. It’s a project management tool. It’s not open source, but does have a self hostable option.

jetbrains.com/…/installation-and-upgrade.html

Suoko, 24 days ago

See github.com/michelematteini/tarallo

Appoxo, 24 days ago

Added. Thank you :)

Nibodhika, 24 days ago

O was going to make a weak suggestion, but the more I read the stronger my suggestion becomes. I strongly recommend you look at Silverbullet. It’s similar to Obsidian in that everything is a markdown file, but has an excellent query language. For example in a random file I add a task with a tag, e.g.

<span style="color:#a71d5d;">* </span><span style="color:#ed6a43;">[ ] Do something [priority: 30]
</span>

Then on my homepage I have this block of code:

<span style="color:#0086b3;">`</span><span style="color:#a71d5d;">``</span><span style="color:#323232;">query
</span><span style="color:#323232;">task where done = false and
</span><span style="color:#323232;">priority > 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">order by priority desc
</span><span style="color:#323232;">render [[Library/Core/Query/Task]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">```
</span>

Which renders as a list of all my tasks on all my files ordered by priority, you can see how this becomes extremely customizable, e.g. using where page = Some/Page will only render tasks from that page.

It’s not a kanban board like you asked, but it’s great for all those stuff, and it’s highly customizable to whatever you need.

You can keep track of problems each on their own page and have a frontmatter with general information that can be queried as if it were a database.

For example I keep one page for each tool I use at my work, and on the index of my work I have a table that shows these tools and links or cli examples.

UsefulIdiot, 23 days ago

Also consider just tracking tasks in obsidian if you already use it.

Check out publish.obsidian.md/…/Obsidian+Kanban+Plugin which seems like it was made for you.

Nibodhika, 23 days ago

O think you meant to reply that to OP

Appoxo, 24 days ago

True. The customization would fit the requirement for the adaptability.
But for a bit of quick and dirty documentation of a task it would quickly get annoying and I would avoid it.

And I would probably start to use Obsidian with some community plugin or some of the already suggested tools.
What I like about kanban that it has a sort of ticket mentality in a 2D-space and can be in a pre-defined state (at least that’s what I could gather from pictures).
This restricts me more and prevents me from micromanaging every detail.

kambusha, 24 days ago

I use logseq (similar to Obsidian) with a To-Do plugin. Logseq has a journal feature, so I can write all tasks that come up in a day, and then I can view all tasks across all days using the to-do plugin.

Then you can use some sync tool (syncthing for example) to sync all your notes between desktop & android. That way, you can create tasks on both your phone & desktop.

Appoxo, 24 days ago

Markdown on the go is a bit annoying.

If you are not aware, there is a community plugin called remotely which can sync to OneDrive, S3 (compatible), Dropbox and WebDav. Might be worth a look to circumvent syncthing.
Personally use syncthing for photosyncing and data backup from phone to NAS

kambusha, 24 days ago

Markdown on the go is a bit annoying.

True. It does have WYSIWYG editor, so I use that more than any actual markdown.

Although, I don’t add that many things on the phone usually. I might scribble a quick note in the middle of the night, or add a quick task. Tends to work alright for that.

solrize, 24 days ago

org-mode.org ?

Appoxo, 24 days ago

Looks a bit too much like obsidian.md but less usable on the go.
Still thankful for the suggestion.

zonsopkomst, 23 days ago

with syncthing + orgzly and/or orgro to make it usable via PC or phone. Also recommend org-roam for expansion as a personal knowledge system. Positive- make it as simple or complicated as you want to make it. Negative- learning curve may take a while.

dumpsterlid, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

organice is front end that runs entirely in a mobile or desktop browser that allows you to access and edit org files easily with a touchscreen or mouse and keyboard. It obviously doesn’t have full org mode functionality, but it does a have a calendar view.

github.com/200ok-ch/organice

All you have to do is navigate to organice.200ok.ch in your phone’s browser and then pin it to your start screen. The PWA is downloaded and you can now access a remote webdav server with the locally saved front end of organice. No data is sent to organice, the only function of the website is to give you an easy place to download the PWA to your device using a web browser.

I love love love love org mode, it is just simple yet so powerful and there really is nothing else like it, I can’t really recommend anything else in good conscience here, especially since most other options (except for logseq logseq.com which I am not sure does everything you want?) are commercial and who knows what the hell will happen when the company goes out of business or is bought out by someone else?

I recommend Spacemacs or Doom emacs as a nice starting point for emacs, or you can just start with basic emacs and build it yourself as org mode is included in the default distribution of emacs.

An additional thing to think about, there is an android release of emacs coming up, so org mode might get much more accessible on the go in the future!

No worries if you aren’t interested, I am just providing some additional context.

www.spacemacs.org

github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

This video is a great thorough but approachable explanation of why org mode is so special:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEeStDz_imQ