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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by JeremyNT »

4lun wrote: post #64
unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

I tried a bunch of selfhosted alternatives to Trello a few months back and never registered OpenProject as an option. I mainly used this list https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#tas... I did focus on "Task management/To-do lists", while OpenProject is listed under the "Project Management" section. This is likely why I missed it as I've been looking for something clean and simple (not JIRA) that i…

Another thing on that list that is easy to pass over is gitlab. The community edition is slowly but steadily adding more project management features, one of which is the "issue boards" - a kanban style issue view [0].

I feel like people may overlook gitlab when evaluating this sort of product because they think of it as "just" a git hosting solution, or because they assume that PM type features might all be paywalled. I'm sure real power users will find it lacking, but for simple workflows it does the job very well, and it ticks so many boxes in one solution.

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by Brendinooo »

selcuka wrote: post #22
Brendinooo wrote: post #11

Nice. I was using Wekan for awhile until I ignored Heroku telling me that they were getting rid of the free MongoDB service, then I lost all of my data. Maybe I'll have to try this instead.

Can't you use MongoDB Atlas free tier? https://www.mongodb.com/pricing

Perhaps, but my data's already gone.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by say_it_as_it_is »

unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

When has the fragmentation argument ever prevailed, in the history of technology? New flavors of practically everything, down to bare metal, release daily. The world may agree on communication protocols, but even that is nearly impossible to do together.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by cooperadymas »

I have not significantly used Notion, but this isn't really a replacement for it is it?

Notion seems to be focused on wiki and notes, with built in structured data allowing you to setup things like boards and task lists.

This seems to just be the boards and task lists without the free form notes and wiki? It pretty clearly replaces Trello and Asana. Notion seems like a stretch from the 5 minutes I poked around in it.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by it33 »

it33 wrote: post #134
adontz wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have posted an enhancement https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/103 But cannot attach labels :-(

Whoops, updating instructions: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee... ! Now asking folks to add `Enhancement:` prefix on tickets, and we can label after

Okay, updating instructions to just prefix with "Feature Request:" and we'll take care of the labelling from there.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by wlk »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #60
tibu wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. And I still did not find the perfect note taking app. I have so few requirements. WYSIWYG editing, easy image insertion, export function with open standard format, mobile app, some security.

Have you tried Joplin? I switched to it and have been loving it. Planning on launching a backup service for it this week actually (Backups +/- encryption to OneDrive, Dropbox, AWS S3 and WebDAV support are all built in): https://joplinapp.org/

Compared to Obsidian, Joplin suits me much better and it's way more features. I have given Obsidian a fair trail, but now I'm using Joplin

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by tfehring »

blowski wrote: post #128
unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

What's the problem with fragmentation? I guess you're thinking of wasted effort, split mindshare amongst users. But for me, fragmentation is one of the key benefits of open source. Let thousands of alternatives bloom!

Also confusion and decision paralysis for new users, as well as limiting new features to only a subset of users unless someone takes the time to re-implement them. And lots of FOSS projects end up as abandonware, and consolidation can increase the share of users whose software is actively maintained. Split mindshare is also a big deal for applications with strong network effects, though probably not for something like this.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by pagutierrezn »

unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

It looks like a forked non-free version of redmine but with less flexibility https://www.redmine.org/
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