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Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by marvion »

It's so sad to see cool Linux tools without a Windows version:(

I get why; I'm just sad - especially because some Linux users are annoyed by "Windows only" tools and then they use linux only features, that never can't be ported to other operating systems as well(not because lack of people, but incompatibility).

Planner is one of those amazing niche tools that doesn't exist for Windows. It looks amazing - congrats!

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by Nabati »

> For Todoist users, the Board View was introduced in this new update, a more visual way to organize your Planner projects.

For someone not familiar with Planner, this sentence was really confusing for me, "for users of other service, there's a feature in this service", and it's not clear what the connection is.

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by _odey »

Took me a while to find it, but this seems to be the repository:

* https://github.com/alainm23/planner

Some notes from a quick browse:

- Licensed GPL-3

- Written in Vala, using GTK

- Uses sqlite

- Meson+ninja as build system (which I like)

If it ran on Android too I'd replace Orgzly with this as I wish to have a tool I use both on my phone and laptop, synchronized via Syncthing (so far orgmode in emacs + orgzly gives me what I want, but I wish I had something a bit more pretty and user friendly like this Planner).

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by AsyncAwait »

marvion wrote: post #2

It's so sad to see cool Linux tools without a Windows version:( I get why; I'm just sad - especially because some Linux users are annoyed by "Windows only" tools and then they use linux only features, that never can't be ported to other operating systems as well(not because lack of people, but incompatibility). Planner is one of those amazing niche tools that doesn't exist for Windows. It looks amazing - congrats!

I get where you're coming from but Linux exclusive desktop apps are so rare that it is probably worth it using tight platform integration as a way to convince users we have quality, nicely designed desktop apps too, especially considering Todoist have a Windows app but not a Linux one[1].

1 - https://todoist.com/downloads/windows?lang=en

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by tgflynn »

_odey wrote: post #5

Took me a while to find it, but this seems to be the repository: * https://github.com/alainm23/planner Some notes from a quick browse: - Licensed GPL-3 - Written in Vala, using GTK - Uses sqlite - Meson+ninja as build system (which I like) If it ran on Android too I'd replace Orgzly with this as I wish to have a tool I use both on my phone and laptop, synchronized via Syncthing (so far orgmode in emacs + orgzly gives…

Thanks. I don't understand why they didn't include a github link on the website.

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by ajvs »

marvion wrote: post #2

It's so sad to see cool Linux tools without a Windows version:( I get why; I'm just sad - especially because some Linux users are annoyed by "Windows only" tools and then they use linux only features, that never can't be ported to other operating systems as well(not because lack of people, but incompatibility). Planner is one of those amazing niche tools that doesn't exist for Windows. It looks amazing - congrats!

Linux is open-source so it tends to follow that open-source projects choose to develop for it too.

Re: Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

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Post by nguyenkien »

_odey wrote: post #5

Took me a while to find it, but this seems to be the repository: * https://github.com/alainm23/planner Some notes from a quick browse: - Licensed GPL-3 - Written in Vala, using GTK - Uses sqlite - Meson+ninja as build system (which I like) If it ran on Android too I'd replace Orgzly with this as I wish to have a tool I use both on my phone and laptop, synchronized via Syncthing (so far orgmode in emacs + orgzly gives…

Planner sync with Todoist [https://todoist.com/downloads/android]
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