What is your cross platform reminders solution?
Title. looking for some tasks/reminders app that can sync across android and mac/windows. Android is a must have though. I am not doing selfhosted just yet but recommendations are still appreciated, Thanks!
I just use Proton Calendar.
Etesync. Open source, self hosted or cloud, cross platform, and fully client side encrypted.
Etesync is basically caldav/etc right? What are you syncing it to on your devices?
It's a fully client-side encrypted key store, mainly used for calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes. It does have a cal/carddav bridge. I use task.org for tasks, EteNotes for notes, and the android connector for native support of calendars and contacts. In GNOME it works via evolution for syncing. I use the *dav bridge for some custom integrations (like HomeAssistant).
I use Todoist. But I'm currently trying to get to the bottom of what their privacy stance is. Their Privacy Policy is too vague for my liking. I've been recently talking with their staff and asking some questions about it, but they've been slow to respond.
Updates would be interesting.
obsidian.md using the Self-hosted Livesync plugin
Have you had any issues with the self-hosted livesync plugin? I currently use the "remotely save" plugin and sync to a nextcloud instance, but I thought about trying the livesync plugin instead. I just wasn't sure if it was worth spinning up a couchdb instance just for that.
I've been using it for about a year, and it's definitely gotten a lot better in that time. It can be a little finicky to get everything configured for the first time for a vault. You only have to do it on the first device though, then you can copy a setup URI to each subsequent device. One caveat is that if you want it to work on mobile, then you've got to have it configured with https and not with a locally-signed cert. I have it proxied through Cloudflare with a domain I use for homelab stuff.
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The biggest difference is that remotely save doesn't have any kind of conflict resolution. It just overwrites the remote file as long as the local one was modified more recently. Livesync keeps separate versions of a file almost like a git repo, tracking the changes. It almost always automatically merges conflicts, but if it can't it'll pop up asking you to choose which version to keep. I have a few vaults that I share with others and multiple people can work on the same file simultaneously with no issues at all. There's end-to-end encryption built in so if you're using it externally you don't have to worry about your privacy. I write up my task list for the day on my computer in the morning, and being able to pull my phone up and check things off and have it reliably sync back to my desktop without overwrite issues works flawlessly. There's iOS, Android and Windows devices all playing nicely.
Here's a link to the docs for setting up your own server.
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I'm gonna stick the docker compose and config files I used to spin mine up if you wanna use them (make sure to put them in the same directory):
name: obsidian
version: '2'
services:
database:
image: couchdb
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "5984:5984"
volumes:
- ./local.ini:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini
environment:
- COUCHDB_USER=username
- COUCHDB_PASSWORD=password
local.ini
[couchdb]
single_node=true
max_document_size = 50000000
[chttpd]
require_valid_user = true
max_http_request_size = 4294967296
[chttpd_auth]
require_valid_user = true
authentication_redirect = /_utils/session.html
[httpd]
WWW-Authenticate = Basic realm="couchdb"
enable_cors = true
[cors]
origins = app://obsidian.md,capacitor://localhost,http://localhost
credentials = true
headers = accept, authorization, content-type, origin, referer
methods = GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, DELETE
max_age = 3600
Edit: Sorry for the huuuge reply, hope it's not too much haha
I'm using Notesnook for note, reminder and task.
Minimally, a web browser on other platforms with Task/Calendar opened and notifications enabled, or with an extension, would suffice. However, this may not be customizable enough.
I'm currently using Remember the Milk as my primary tasks/reminders. It isn't updated with big features very often, and has been around for a long time. I'm looking for a new similar solution that is self-hosted though. Currently I'm leaning towards Kanboard for bigger "projects", but my alternative to rtm so far is just a bunch of markdown checklists in Obsidian.
Notion is pretty good to me.
Am I the only one using Google Keep?
I came in here to recommend Todoist - been using Pro for years and I love it for organisation and reminders.. However, with all the self-hosted options in the comments, I'm looking at making the move to the NAS. Thanks other commenters!
Is there any problem with a Google or Microsoft calendar? Free and app supported on pretty much everything.
Your asking on privacyguides and using Google. I think the answer should be pretty obvious. At least for the Google free accounts, they mine many things. Presumably if you have a business services agreement with them you could more or less guarantee more security.
I use Logseq for notes, project and task management.
https://github.com/logseq/logseq
Oh my god. This project is exactly what I’ve been imagining in a replacement for todoist. You’re my hero for introducing this!
Great! It's important to note that there is no notification support on mobile yet for tasks. It's possible on desktop.
The app is in very rapid development and it's more than a tasks app. I really recommend trying to use the normal to quickly write stuff down and create todos.