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(DIR) Post #A4FxRkZ1fLXOb5n09g by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T06:38:21Z
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#askthefediverse which #foss productivity apps do you use? And how are they integrated?Use case: starting a new job, taking a uni course, writing a masters thesis, plus personal goals to achieve. Walking around with a massive to do list in my head.I'm trying out apps to keep track, but they're not integrated. Think mail in one app, calendar in another, Nextcloud + deck, tasks in a notes app. Since it's not integrated, I'm often doing double work or lose track. How do other people do this? 🤔
(DIR) Post #A4Fy34zyeY2CgmCCQa by z428@social.tchncs.de
2021-02-14T06:45:02Z
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@Gina I've mostly been using NextCloud Notes for that, but tried some other solutions on NextCloud as well (including just syncing markdown or text files using WebDAV). It works, but still in quite some situations you feel the price of using FLOSS - in terms of integration and tooling support, there are limits). Might depend on your actual requirements though - what kind of integration do you have in mind? 🙂 #askthefediverse #foss
(DIR) Post #A4FyAeg2OrLnN2TubI by phoenix@chaos.social
2021-02-14T06:46:24Z
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@Gina Using Joplin+Nextcloud for about half a year now and being happy with it!
(DIR) Post #A4FyeWJk2rwS8CIFyC by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T06:51:52Z
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@z428 I think the one that I most desperately need is a NC deck - Calendar integration. Which should be possible with NC tasks and caldav, if I remember correctly.Buttt I use a foss calendar I found on fdroid, which doesn't support integrations. Maybe I just need a new calendar.
(DIR) Post #A4FzoUFmfo1Ca2l6HY by trianderror@social.snopyta.org
2021-02-14T07:04:50Z
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@GinaAs far as I know, most calendar apps, even FOSS ones, use the internal Android calendar. So it should work with DAVx5.
(DIR) Post #A4G1QkB60zhsvYN7yK by jameschip@merveilles.town
2021-02-14T07:22:58Z
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@Gina I know this isn’t exactly what you want but, have you tried just carrying a small notebook around with you?Tech has done a terrific job of convincing us we need more layers of tech to solve problems introduced by more layers of tech. This leads to needing yet more layers, and it doesn’t end. Using a notebook that I carry in my back pocket was the unsolution I found.
(DIR) Post #A4G1gECif1Q8OaVyme by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T07:25:21Z
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@jameschip considering I spend 10.000 hours a week on my phone I'd really prefer mobile apps 😅 plus, I really need the notifications, otherwise I'm still trying to remember tasks.
(DIR) Post #A4G24wXxRohGs6EZaC by jameschip@merveilles.town
2021-02-14T07:30:14Z
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@Gina ah yes another app to make it 10001 hours :). The paper approach is not for everyone, granted, and it is infuriating that there isn’t a one app to do it all at once. Best of luck in your hunt.
(DIR) Post #A4G35XAPOWskOw44C8 by Qwertziop@mastodon.social
2021-02-14T07:36:35Z
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@z428 @Gina The time you spend to try apps, to ask your fediverse bubble and to try out new apps is wasted while your todo list keeps growing.Don’t waste your time with lists anyway (and apps for managing those lists).And if you need time to arrange your ideas, use pen and paper.Off you go! 👊
(DIR) Post #A4G35Xazng9JjOVIdU by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T07:41:30Z
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@Qwertziop @z428 haha thank you for that completely useless advice. Off you go!
(DIR) Post #A4G3BwSYGoHkaAbf5k by cappuMUC@troet.cafe
2021-02-14T07:42:40Z
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@GinaNC-Deck has a Calendar integration since one of the last update. 👍 I use the heck out of it. @z428
(DIR) Post #A4G3HkEUdqwgOonW9w by yarmo@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T07:42:50Z
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@Gina I know what you answered the other person, but I will mention it once more.A paper notebook.With the right set up, it can work just like notifications.Having tried both apps and paper, I felt more relaxed with the latter. There is some psychological trick to it. Phones are the source of distraction and chaos. Managing and sorting that wealth of daily info on paper can bring back order. The fact that it is not your phone is why it works so well.Of course, ymmv. Best of luck!!
(DIR) Post #A4G3aq3RDlc9xOjPJA by colinl@scicomm.xyz
2021-02-14T07:47:11Z
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@GinaI recommend "davx5" for syncing any caldav calendar with android
(DIR) Post #A4G4CkghcfLqJhAwls by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2021-02-14T07:50:26Z
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I try to keep it simple. In my experience when I have too many tools I spend too much time maintaining these tools (or just having them in my mind - did I clear that notification? did I check that feed?) and when "everything is integrated" then it starts to affect the way I tackle tasks because I start to organize and plan things not the way I want but the way apps support that.So I ditched all extras and now I mostly use just three apps - Nextcloud Notes for quick notes, Tasks (tasks.org) for reminders and quick lists and Zim (desktop wiki) to organize my projects and keep important notes. None of these are really unique and you can easily replace them with something else but I like these the best.
(DIR) Post #A4G4Kuji98PjnYTUi8 by tapani@mas.to
2021-02-14T07:55:31Z
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@Gina I've started using just a couple text files for everything. Less distractions and clutter. A modified version of this.https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
(DIR) Post #A4G4xSSJE8afNgiLOy by joshim@mastodon.social
2021-02-14T08:02:30Z
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@Gina i've been using org-mode recently and found it quite useful. if youre on android the orgzly app has notification for due dates. you can have separate notebooks for work/studies/projects etc and use a combined view too. thing is it took me an afternoon to learn and given what you have on your plate already, might not be the right time to start with it (if youre not already familiar with org).
(DIR) Post #A4G5SUvE6gve0X2baq by torresjrjr@qoto.org
2021-02-14T08:08:09Z
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@Gina1. Pen and notepad. You dismiss others as stupid when they say this, but in my experience, it's the most effective. Pre-corona, I had to travel to uni on the tube/train/bus, and the notepad was better than any flimsy app.Very easy to "sync" and keep track, and infinite battery. No need to rely on some big company for storage or authentication.Technology should be there to help us, not absorb us. I say this as a person who codes. Avoid #bloat!2. Have one source of truth. Whatever it is (your notepad, a single markdown file you sync across devices, your todos app, emails...), decide wisely and strictly treat it as such. Maybe look into #BuJo.Similarly, compartmentalise:http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html---And learn vim if you haven't already!
(DIR) Post #A4G5ljgbRF5hIeNGvg by z428@social.tchncs.de
2021-02-14T08:11:35Z
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@Gina I've been using some caldav based tasks app for a while which actually was pretty neat, think it was Astrid (which even supported hierarchical tasks). This, then again, worked pretty poorly with the NC web calendar. 😐
(DIR) Post #A4G5pxX5tnA1P1wNU0 by feonixrift@hackers.town
2021-02-14T08:11:45Z
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@Gina Major 'been down this rabbit hole' mood. I'd advocate for not doing something as complicated as what I do now...since you're already in Nextcloud, centering that might be a good idea - you have calendar and todo there already, plus file storage for project folders are notes backup - next step would be to integrate it. Nextcloud supports webdav / caldav, which means independent of the client software you may be used to using, you can use it within your calendar apps, there are todo apps that sync to it, etc. On desktop, thunderbird is effective for this, and will also integrate it with your mail environment. On android, search through f-droid for the webdav connector, it will direct you from there.alternatively you can go for another sync method and todo tracking platform. I'm heavily FOSS so I don't use something like todoist, but those are an option. Or, there is the todo.txt format, which a number of desktop apps support and is designed to be easy to work with as plaintext, and there is an android app in f-droid called Simpletodo I think that supports it. This has all the tagging and filtering you expect if you do GTD available so if you need organizational big guns in one file it's a great approach. I would personally sync that via syncthing not nextcloud just for simplicity since it doesn't support webdav directly. Syncthing is definitely a tool to remain aware of when you need files to self-organize between machines.and then there's what I'm moving to... I have a directory of org-mode files, with subdirectories of project materials, synced to my nextcloud, and then pulled by the app orgzly on my phone. This gives me a running sorted agenda I can check things off of on the phone, room to ramble when I want to expand documents or project plans on the go, and the [evil laugh] power of a fully operational task management system when I hit the desktop again. Only downside is I have to hit sync manually on the phone but maybe I'll find a way around that soon. Using org-mode has a huge barrier to entry unless you're already an emacs user (which I'm guessing not). For me spacemacs forms a bridge over that, but it's still been aaaaargh getting into it. Otoh now that I am, it's taking off.I work under a similar load of projects, and any one of these systems would suffice if tasks were tagged consistently, but as the boss fights level up I'm leaning into being able to work in individual files then have a collated agenda view more and more.for larger stuff (actual writing, not the task list) like dissertations, my discipline results in writing them in LaTeX so sorting those files necessarily happens in its own way. If I were doing it again however, I would definitely consider using something more suited to being an outliner such as pandoc or org-roam then dropping that into the LaTeX template after it had started to take form.
(DIR) Post #A4G6nP21IoSdm3kbnE by feonixrift@hackers.town
2021-02-14T08:15:08Z
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@Gina & I know you know this but it has to be said -- back up your thesis!!! nextcloud is good for this. but also back up all of your research notes leading up to the thesis; losing 300 pages of calculations and reference quotes does noone any good.
(DIR) Post #A4G6nPVRXPzrFJW6ee by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T08:23:06Z
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@feonixrift haha that's going to be my next #askthefediverse question, what do yall use to back-up Nextcloud?
(DIR) Post #A4G7lOqd79i0Zz22VM by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-14T08:33:55Z
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@Gina* Sensing the name of the ancient one Org Mode has been uttered I use pandoc to temporarily convert my existence out of Asterisk into Reality.** I look like I haven't seen a mirror in years I have a look of a scientist you shouldn't trust in my eye** I open my mouth and proclaim+work-boss+PRIORITY="A"+Coffee="unlimited"+Effort<2 +With={Sarah|Denny}+SCHEDULED>="<2008-10-11>" before the spacetime-bulletpointspace rift destablizes and I am sucked back into the portal
(DIR) Post #A4G9CaWzsrpkaUNRey by normandc@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T08:50:02Z
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@Gina Wait, did you get a new job? Congrats! 👍 You remind of my sister, taking on so many things at once. Kudos! I'm too lazy for that! 😜
(DIR) Post #A4G9d7E4wp8BWBB43U by ticoombs@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T08:54:48Z
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@Gina I use DAVx5 to sync:- SimpleCalender over caldav https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.calendar.pro- tasks with OpenTasks (over the caldav) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.dmfs.tasks- contacts over carddav- k9mail for mailAll connected to hosted Mailcow, which uses "SoGo" for a web portal for all the over items. I have similar problems with docs n notes but
(DIR) Post #A4GC1AyYrFJW0QWIN6 by lopeztel@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T09:21:35Z
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@Gina first of all, congrats! Multi tasking like a champ! I'd just use Nextcloud and all its apps (notes, tasks, contacts, calendar, file management, even email)
(DIR) Post #A4GCAawdfumL9a70SG by edgren@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T09:23:01Z
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@Gina I've been using Kanboard a while now and I love it. It has smart features and have a simple design (just like Miniflux).https://kanboard.org/
(DIR) Post #A4GDqN1NvrXs5Toe7E by myrmidex@mastodon.nogods.be
2021-02-14T09:41:58Z
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@Gina I've tried a lot of e-tools over the last year. The only one that stuck was a paper journal - 'engineering day book' sounds cooler - and using the Bullet Journal method. Keeps track of my tasks, progress towards goals, events, ... Keeping it up for now, been since September so it seems this is sticking.
(DIR) Post #A4GE9XFI8uYfIdSWjA by Gina@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T09:45:29Z
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@normandc thanks! :) I'm tooting about it tomorrow!
(DIR) Post #A4GFeFLOqknyi6WZGq by frainz@fem.social
2021-02-14T10:02:14Z
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@Gina At first i used caldav to sync my tasks, but now they are on etesync. I use tasks.org on my phone and evolution on the laptop, but its really awful for tasks management. I hope the caldav backend of gtg is available soon
(DIR) Post #A4GTOw2BlB5Hpv8Dbc by FreePietje@x0f.org
2021-02-14T12:36:24Z
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@Gina Store you calendar/todos (caldav) and your contacts (carddav) in Nextcloud and use DAVx5 on your phone to use/sync those same things on your phone.And OpenTasks (or Tasks.org) app allows you to create tasks/todos which are stored in your calendar (and thus stored/synced in NC)Kontact also integrates with OC/NC.I've been using that for many years now.
(DIR) Post #A4GUCTYzt73w0z6Hbc by xahteiwi@mastodon.social
2021-02-14T12:45:19Z
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@Gina If you're curious and collecting options, I can highly recommend Paul Fenwick's talk on Taskwarrior, specifically how he integrates it with a bunch of other systems *and* makes it play nicely even with his ADHD.https://youtu.be/zl68asL9jZA
(DIR) Post #A4Gb1xCq2KC2RYfKJU by daniel@campduffel.social
2021-02-14T14:01:56Z
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@Gina @artyr3 I tried and liked this suggestion.https://fosstodon.org/@artyr3/105046177929192079There is something magical about looking back in time at your notes if you can manage it.
(DIR) Post #A4GbnmaQp3ohPLVXEW by daniel@campduffel.social
2021-02-14T14:10:34Z
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@myrmidex @Gina Never heard of the bullet journal method...interesting.
(DIR) Post #A4GpAIXM0lK0H78P6O by tetrapyloctomist@muenchen.social
2021-02-14T16:40:08Z
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@Gina I'm running a #Wekan service on my #Yunohost server - and to me this really helpful to keep track of the many things I need to move forward. All of this being #FOSS, I'd love to see #Nextcloud integrate more of that into #NextcloudNotes - but right now, Wekan still is worth the extra effort to me :mastolove:
(DIR) Post #A4GuUUlik8uxm1Iwim by doenietzomoeilijk@mastodon.nl
2021-02-14T17:39:51Z
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@FreePietje @Gina ditto on the calendar and integrations. I've given up on to-do list apps. Currently trying my hand at a zettelkasten/vimwiki hybrid where I add tasks to the index page.
(DIR) Post #A4H1dy6Hl1Pp1tO6XQ by Bro666@social.tchncs.de
2021-02-14T19:00:01Z
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@Gina Kontact, the @kde PIM so far has worked with everything I have thrown at it. Two disclaimers, though: 1. I have been using KMail / Kontact from the early 2000s, so whether Kontact adapts to my workflow or I have unconsciously adapted my workflow to Kontact is anyone's guess2. your specific needs will certainly make your mileage vary.Either way, lots of luck on your search and let us know what you find!
(DIR) Post #A4H5NJCwQY6DO1oRii by XxAlexXx@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T19:41:29Z
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@Gina @jameschip Got an app called tasks in which you can assign a task, a deadline and in what completion stage are you currently. Also for tracking your habits, loop habit tracker is there. I use tickmate as a small journal of what things were done that day :)
(DIR) Post #A4H5QKC1DlTPJJoqkC by XxAlexXx@fosstodon.org
2021-02-14T19:42:03Z
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@Gina @jameschip For calander, maybe etec. Try that out
(DIR) Post #A4JUeJ94D9PBeLlrTE by SharksOnCoffee@fosstodon.org
2021-02-15T23:34:41Z
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@Gina Emacs. Handles mail nicely. Org mode for tracking, writing, structure, time reports. It is nicely integrated
(DIR) Post #A4Jj4FbnNiM9ZJTP1s by l_l@fosstodon.org
2021-02-16T02:16:09Z
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@Gina 1/2Calendar (any, it doesn't matter): - define time blocks for your week ( job / study / etc )- add physical appointments ( dentist / gym / etc )- Do not add tasks from a time block.- Refactor every weekend to make sure you're adapting it to what you'll be able to commit next week.(Continues...)
(DIR) Post #A4KBZCtiJAyar1P5wu by mafe@layer8.space
2021-02-16T07:35:05Z
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@Gina Trying to create it by myself. Which is hard since I keep losing track planning this project, too. 😬
(DIR) Post #A4ORdYhjY5jPXmjkXI by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-02-18T08:54:36.522665Z
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@Gina NextCloud has a suite of extension and corresponding mobile apps that work well together.Notes, Talk, Bookmarks, and News all have Android apps.NextCloud Tasks integrates beautifully with Tasks.org, though I think you also need DavX for Android installed for sync.Pretty much any run-of-the-mill Contacts app or Calendar app can also make use of your DavX sync with NextCloud.Personally, I use Tasks, Notes, and Calendar reminders the most.
(DIR) Post #A4QVtsl9XYaEVgIMWu by humanetech@mastodon.social
2021-02-19T08:50:34Z
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@Gina besides Nextcloud the #Freedombox software might also be helpful to you.https://freedombox.org/Haven't tried myself, but keep track of it, as I'm struggling with the same problem as you.Much of my stuff doesn't fit flat short-term todo lists, so I am looking at things such as #Foam knowledge base too. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/Markdown-everywhere is my best-practice to easie crossing app boundaries (if only by copy/paste in many cases).
(DIR) Post #A4QsEMXcihCNey8bk8 by egret@hackers.town
2021-02-19T13:01:07Z
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@Gina i just use Trello tbh.