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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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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/

Thanks for the suggestion. I did try Calligra Plan. I manage a lot of medium-small projects, and to ended up not fitting my workflow very well. That said, I could see how it might be perfect for people who manage and plan bigger projects.

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

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I appreciate its open-source nature. Although, to be completely honest, the functionality and design don't seem to provide anything unique in comparison to already existing apps like trello / todo apps which I believe suck. I have tried many of "productivity" tools but somehow always ended up with pen&paper or notepad app. I wonder if that's the best we can do in 21st century. And all of these apps seem to follow the same design paradigm.

After a pro-longed experimentation and reflection, I designed my own system. Shared it with friends and we're building a tool with a slightly different approach. Hopefully to address user problems holistically. If anyone's curious I'd be happy to share our work once ready. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18lEuJ9cQLhgiPaH1K1bp2j8yy_B...

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

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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.

You have to pay for it on the Elementary store, so maybe they don't want you to find it for free easily.

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

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This looks pretty good!

One of the most important things to me when using Todoist is seamless syncing between mobile and web. I absolutely need the possibility of quickly jotting down a task when I'm on the go. As well as getting a quick overview of the day in the morning or late in the evening without having to use the computer.

Todoist is actually one of the few apps I pay for and feel happy doing that. For me it's really money well spent as I'm pretty sure I recover the yearly cost in productivity gains in a few days max.

That being said, it's always nice to see good open source software being actively developed!

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

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

You have to pay for it on the Elementary store, so maybe they don't want you to find it for free easily.

Apps on Elementary store are available as pay as you want. The price there is just a suggestion and if don't want to pay just decrease it to 0.

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

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Does Planner support any basic form of time tracking?

And/or cost tracking? That's the one feature missing from the simple planners that I've been wanting.

And/or task dependency (as a DAG, not a tree)?
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