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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 hcal »

neilv wrote: post #17

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 Instag…

I wish someone would pick it back up. It was pretty useful. It took some work to get it to run on Modern Fedora and I had a lot of stability problems with it.

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

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Post by johnchristopher »

There's something weird these days about how there are a lot of cool apps in elementary and rearely deb/ubuntu packages :/. Is that a writing on the wall ? I usually want to test them out but the vala/meson/ninja compilation steps often gets in my way.

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

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Post by neilv »

hcal wrote: post #21
neilv wrote: post #17

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 Instag…

I wish someone would pick it back up. It was pretty useful. It took some work to get it to run on Modern Fedora and I had a lot of stability problems with it.

FWIW, I don't recall a stability problem with it on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I exercised a lot of features, but I didn't use it for a long duration (CEO wanted to try having the entire company updating Instagantt).

At first glance, I wondered whether Gnome Planner was one of those open source projects that was started overly-ambitiously, and then quickly abandoned when development got difficult. However, after using it, I got the impression that Gnome Planner was mostly there.

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

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Post by ekidd »

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 ]

Todoist sync looks like a really terrific feature, but as far as I can tell, it's broken on some Ubuntu 18.04 systems due to WebKit2GTK issues. https://github.com/alainm23/planner/issues/302 The joys of software development.

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

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Post by j1elo »

johnchristopher wrote: post #22

There's something weird these days about how there are a lot of cool apps in elementary and rearely deb/ubuntu packages :/. Is that a writing on the wall ? I usually want to test them out but the vala/meson/ninja compilation steps often gets in my way.

I was curious about the Elementary AppCenter and what distribution format they use: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/appcenter/publishing-requ...

Turns out they use .deb packages, so the packages should be available somewhere.

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

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Post by nguyenkien »

ekidd wrote: post #24
nguyenkien wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Todoist sync looks like a really terrific feature, but as far as I can tell, it's broken on some Ubuntu 18.04 systems due to WebKit2GTK issues. https://github.com/alainm23/planner/issues/302 The joys of software development.

Too bad. He should use system browser instead

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

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Post by fleg »

johnchristopher wrote: post #22

There's something weird these days about how there are a lot of cool apps in elementary and rearely deb/ubuntu packages :/. Is that a writing on the wall ? I usually want to test them out but the vala/meson/ninja compilation steps often gets in my way.

A lot of them are available as Flatpaks, too. Planner is available there as well: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.alainm23.pla...

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

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Post by GartzenDeHaes »

neilv wrote: post #17

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 Instag…

For me, lack of project leveling was a stopper. Without leveling, you're just making fancy charts.

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

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Post by ognarb »

hcal wrote: post #21
neilv wrote: post #17

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 Instag…

I wish someone would pick it back up. It was pretty useful. It took some work to get it to run on Modern Fedora and I had a lot of stability problems with it.

Maybe you could take a look at Calligra Plan, it is one of the only part of Calligra still actively maintained.

https://calligra.org/plan/

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