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Household management - what are you using if anything? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by GetAwayWithThis@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello there!

I was wondering what people on here use for general household related peojects and general recurring task management.

I feel like it would be easier to get stuff done if my wife and I could have a place to store and real time add/update information on things. Notes on the fridge don't cut it anymore, as life gets complex.

I was looking into NextCloud AIO. I don't care much for the mail, file sync or call and chat features. But a shared calendar and the Deck app with tasks sound useful. Along with the cookbook app that exists.

I was also checking out independent-ish solutions like Vikunja and Kitchen owl. I was also looking for a MS whiteboard-like thing to use, and Excalidraw came up. It is possible to tie all these together with a dashboard, so it doesn't feel like it's all over the place I am sure. But the wife approval factor is also something I have to keep in mind. Also, mobile apps are hit and miss in my opinion.

If you have extendes experiences with the above tools or alternatives that you use, please share how you like it! I could use some perspective before I deploy stuff to "prd".

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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I've never been able to fully transition away from the proprietary TickTick tasks. Nothing seems to have the features I'm accustomed too. Then again, I'm on a dysfunctional task non-management spree right now, so maybe when I get my shit together I'll try again. For context, I use a modified version of the GTD strategy to keep track of my todos.

Before TickTick I used Astrid. When Astrid tasks was bought and killed by Yahoo, I thought they were over, although it seems there is a fork https://github.com/tasks/tasks (GPL 3.0) that also syncs with tasks.org. I haven't done thorough testing yet to see what kind of issues I would have using this new Astrid and Nextcloud, but this is the best open solution I've been able to come up with and its been on my project shelf for over a year waiting to be tested.

For calendar, nextcloud synced with Thunderbird and a proprietary phone app (I know... I know) seems to work well for me. My partner uses icloud and it generally interoperates fine. I even have a raspberry pi in the living room that pulls in everyone's calendar and overlays them as a "family calendar"

[-] ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Have you checked out vikunja? (https://vikunja.io/) It was a pretty easy replacement of ticktick for my family.

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