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Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by f_devd »

darkteflon wrote: post #21

I’ve been a paying Todoist customer for many years. For some reason, they steadfastly refuse to introduce blocking/blocked by flags. It seems so strange to me to do all the hard work of allowing arbitrarily nested projects and tasks, sub-tasks, labels, complex filters and collaboration, but then not do dependencies. Imo dependencies is the big difference between something you can use on complex projects, and a “mere”…

I had exactly the same thought on the DAG structure and tried to create it in Obsidian using some linking magic but found it really clunky, currently working on making something myself using CRDTs, probably not for a wider audience though.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by bananadonkey »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #30
anthropodie wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I don't like about Docker is it does not respect the firewall rules that I setup using something like ufw.

Docker doesn't change iptables as set up by ufw. do you have more info on your issue?

Docker does add iptables rules by default, which bypass other rules such as those you might set with ufw.

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker has a good overview and ufw-specific solution (I use it on my rpi).

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

layer8 wrote: post #16

The good thing is it has an API so you can write your own client for it.

This is an exciting idea to me. I have fairly basic but specific wants for a mobile client that Things delivers on, but they don’t allow for collaborating.

I can see myself knocking out crappy Swift apps (iOS and watchOS) to share todos with only the features I really want with the ability to share lists with people.

Todoist is so close to being what I want but is still missing some key features, and to my detriment, has a million ways to try to optimize lists in ways I’ll get wrapped up in without really improving my systems. I love the idea of cutting down to the necessities.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by michaelsalim »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #29
darkteflon wrote: post #21

I’ve been a paying Todoist customer for many years. For some reason, they steadfastly refuse to introduce blocking/blocked by flags. It seems so strange to me to do all the hard work of allowing arbitrarily nested projects and tasks, sub-tasks, labels, complex filters and collaboration, but then not do dependencies. Imo dependencies is the big difference between something you can use on complex projects, and a “mere”…

This. To me, it seems like a weird market blind spot. Most of the tools in this space can't even do a proper tree - typically they limit you to 2-4 levels, like "project", "task", "subtask" and "checklist". The few that don't, stick to the tree model, even though work naturally structures itself into a DAG. From the other end, I know MS Project has pretty much all the things you need, but has questionable UX, is quit…

I made Recall[0] which is all about this. Managing tasks using a tree structure (like folder/files, no level limit). And dependency representation with DAG graphs. Give it a try, you might like it.

Unfortunately the project is currently paused since i can't figure out how to make it work financially (you can still use it though). The space is really crowded and most people don't really think about dependencies, so it's quite a hard sell.

I might open-source the project and continue with it in the near future but I'll need some validation that the tool is useful before I commit to that. So if you do like it, I'd love to have a chat :)

[0] https://recalllab.com

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by satvikpendem »

fgrsnau wrote: post #3
malermeister wrote: post #2

Looks promising! Does it have mobile apps or even better, support for standard protocols like CalDAV or Etesync?

A mobile app is work in progress[1]. I am currently using the web interface which is quite usable on a mobile phone. Lists work quite nicely, also on smaller screens. I was using Kanboard previously and mobile usage was a bit too complicated. CalDAV seems to be supported[2]. I have not tried it (yet). [1]: https://github.com/go-vikunja/app [2]: https://vikunja.io/docs/caldav/

How are you liking Flutter? And any reasons for using Provider and RxDart? I'm looking into using Riverpod, personally.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by reachableceo »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

Now it’s docker pull and editing a compose file or setting env variables.

Essentially exactly the same process as LAMP deployment of yesteryear .

I mean, yes you can make it complicated/enterprise with k8s and such.

I found cloudron to be a good middle balance.

I say this as someone running about 250 applications or so. One cloudron vm , one bare Ubuntu server vm with nothing but docker installed.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by NhanH »

darkteflon wrote: post #21

I’ve been a paying Todoist customer for many years. For some reason, they steadfastly refuse to introduce blocking/blocked by flags. It seems so strange to me to do all the hard work of allowing arbitrarily nested projects and tasks, sub-tasks, labels, complex filters and collaboration, but then not do dependencies. Imo dependencies is the big difference between something you can use on complex projects, and a “mere”…

Can you elaborate a bit on what it means to establish a DAG? I know what DAG is, just not sure what is the application here.
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