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

#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 known? Would love to hear more from the HN community on this.

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

#52

I love Notion but the speed, or rather lack of, is killing me daily. Last Friday I was taking some notes, and suddenly the page refreshed and everything was gone. Went on twitter to see, I wasn't alone .. i feel like hosting my own notion clone is the way to go forward to use Notion...

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.

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

#53
post #41

> Download Focalboard from the Microsoft App Store. I am life-long Windows user and I am yet to meet someone who uses Microsoft App Store. A standalone regular installer is an absolute must.

Hi! I've used it for a few things, such as purchasing Microsoft Flight Simulator, and various WSL distros.

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

#54
Note: this, although self-hosted, appears to transmit your usage data without consent (just like the selfhosted Mattermost server from the same people):

https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/server/se...

Anyone want to offer me odds on the likelihood of a patch removing this spyware getting accepted by the maintainer in this “open source” project?

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

#55
post #4

It would’ve been more convenient to me if this project provided standalone downloads for macOS and Windows. The current downloads for the Desktop version are only available through the respective app stores on these two platforms.

Same here, I don't want to use any Microsoft account on windows 10, I was already burned by it once ._.

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

#56
post #42
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downloading from app store is about as easy as it gets.

No, it's not. Requires a sign-up and comes with other cruft unrelated to the actual download.

Last time I used it was to test that my companies app could be downloaded from it. Well it wouldn't let me sign in using my existing outlook account apparently because we use our company domain name. So I had to create a completely separate microsoft domain account. Pretty annoying.

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

#57

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…

Big fan and active user of OpenProject here, I recommend it.

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

#58
post #49
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've actually just started using Notion and the UI is nice, as is the feature set, but yeah, I'm getting a little annoyed by the constant page loads. I mean this kind of thing continues to fuel my beliefs that software is going backwards here because frankly, how hard can it be to render some text?

> how hard can it be to render some text? It really depends. If the only thing you care about rendering is US ASCII with a monospace bitmapped font, that's not too hard. However, a general purpose text renderer will have to handle things like directionality (left to right versus right to left text orientation), wide/half text rendering (for CJK characters), combining characters (for some European, South East Asian la…

All of this can be done quite efficiently on a native widget. The problem with Notion is that it uses Electron.

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

#59

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’s quite heavy and slow.

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

#60
post #52

I love Notion but the speed, or rather lack of, is killing me daily. Last Friday I was taking some notes, and suddenly the page refreshed and everything was gone. Went on twitter to see, I wasn't alone .. i feel like hosting my own notion clone is the way to go forward to use Notion...

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/

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