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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 _odey »

nguyenkien wrote: post #10
_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 ]

Yes but I don't want a 3rd party to access my data. Right now I sync peer to peer via WiFi, no server involved, and would like to keep it that way.

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

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Post by bschne »

Haven't used this personally, and it definitely seems to have taken lots of inspiration from Todoist, Things 3, et al., but it's really great to see this sort of well-designed app that looks like a lot of thought went into the UX even for non-advanced users for linux!

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

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Post by marvion »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #6
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

I totally understand why. It just felt weird the first time I came across a beautiful Linux Mint app, that couldn't be ported to windows..

.. the cool thing is, that it is possible with WSL and it probably will be almost seamless in the future - without additional work for the devs.

I specifically want to use Planner because of the local mode. Afaik ther are no nice local-only todo apps for windows with sub-task support.

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

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Post by hcal »

I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was initially a good enough solution, but Alain (the developer) has gone above and beyond to deliver an amazing tool. It is now every bit as good as Things and the Board view will be an awesome addition.

This is one of those times where the open source option is clearly the best tool. You don't give up anything. Plus, and I think this is important for something you use all day long, it is has a nice visual design that is easy to use and figure out.

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

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Post by mbirth »

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!

From the screenshots it looks very similar to Microsoft To Do: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-to-d...

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

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Post by neilv »

In case anyone else was wondering, this doesn't seem to be the same thing as the Planner app of Gnome: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner

(Gnome's Planner doesn't look like it's being developed at the moment, but it's a pretty decent tool in the style of old-school Microsoft Project. The files are also pretty git-friendly. I'd actually been thinking of moving back to it, since it's lower friction to edit than Instagantt, and also lets one assign multiple resources to a task.)

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

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Post by djeiasbsbo »

_odey wrote: post #11
nguyenkien wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes but I don't want a 3rd party to access my data. Right now I sync peer to peer via WiFi, no server involved, and would like to keep it that way.

I sync my Tasks with Nextcloud. On Android I use the "Tasks" app from F-Droid. It just uses DAVx5 to sync.

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

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Post by hanklazard »

hcal wrote: post #14

I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was initially a good enough solution, but Alain (the developer) has gone above and beyond to deliver an amazing tool. It is now every bit as good as Things and the Board view will be an awesome addition. This is one of those times where the open…

Looks great for when I’m on my Linux laptop. Any way to use on iPhone without dealing with Todoist? Like a markdown text file or something.

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

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Post by ruph123 »

hcal wrote: post #14

I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was initially a good enough solution, but Alain (the developer) has gone above and beyond to deliver an amazing tool. It is now every bit as good as Things and the Board view will be an awesome addition. This is one of those times where the open…

That is true except that it does not offer a sufficient solution for a synced mobile app.

I was very happily using it and even created a Todoist premium account only to find out that the interpretation between the two tools is very lacking and a lot of the things I configured and structured did not make it to Todoist and vice versa (notes, folders, hierarchies, etc). If there would be a 1–to-1 translation between the two this would be awesome.

Having a great Linux Todo app is really great. But I have to be able to at least __see__ everything the same way on my smartphone, even if I can’t edit it. Having a half baked solution like this makes it unusable.

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