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What OSS tools do you use for personal knowledge & task management? (lemmy.ml)

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I've been looking into all sorts of them recently: logseq, appflowy, vikunja, etc. What tools do you use? Why? What problems did you run into with the previous set of tools you used for this job?

Right now I'm primarily interested in finding a "zero-knowledge" (cloud provider doesn't have access to my data) system for task management. Needs to be able to have recurring tasks and tasks organized in some interesting/useful ways (by projects/labels/something, maybe a kanban and table view). Deadlines and time tracking/planning interesting but not required.

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I use Joplin, there's desktop and mobile clients, sync with your own WebDAV server and you've a Kanban plugin. It also does checklists, tables and all the stuff people like. Stores everything in markdown so that's a win.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Same, only I self-host a Joplin server. I have yet to find something that's nearly as versatile with so little effort.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hmm... besides note sharing what's the advantage of the server over WebDAV? I kina picked WebDAV because I already had the infrastructure in place for other things, and let's face it, it is a piece of cake to get nginx run a WebDAV server.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Webdav is a great option too. I don't know that it's a question of advantage so mush as a matter of preference, honestly. I just like to have my services as segregated as possible. I use Radicale for contacts and calendar. That way, if radicale fails, I lost my ability to sync those, but get to keep syncing my notes and such, if Joplin fails, I lost that ability but my calendars and contacts still sync. I also share a lot of notes, lists and stuff like that with my wife, which makes it easier.

What I have in terms of self-hosted over 14 different services in ProxMox could have been solved by having a simple Nextcloud instance, but I feel nextcloud is overkill for my needs, and if it fails, all my services fail, so I moved away from it about 6 months ago or so.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

by having a simple Nextcloud instance, but I feel nextcloud is overkill for my needs, and if it fails,

I do like to keep things separate as well and Nextcloud is an ongoing source of issues and a piece of shit a software. Since I don't share notes I find WebDAV to be good enough and simple enough not to fail.

My setup is mostly Syncthing, FileBrowser, Baikal, Joplin, FreshRSS, WebDAV (for a bunch of those and as a way to have mobile access to the Syncthing/FileBrowser data. Simple and realiable.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Our infrastructure seems pretty similar, except for the Radicale/Baikal part. I also have a Kavita instance, Vaultwarden, Frigate, Stirling Pdf, Immich (but I'm seriously thinking of dropping it as it sucks resources like crazy and tends to break often with very large libraries) and an instance of Wazuh to make sure I have as little potential vulnerabilities as possible in hosts and docker containers.

My wife says I spend too much time playing with my servers and network, but that keeps me home instead of outside, so you would think that's a good thing 🤣

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I get the wife part 😂 I use KeepassXC for password so sync happens over Syncthing for desktop/laptop and WebDAV for mobile. Frigate is something I will eventually get in but first I’ve to decide on a good camera brand that can work 100% offline, right now all signs point at AMCrest but I’m a bit undecided.

[-] Subdivide6857@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Frigate is wonderful, and getting better all the time. I also run Scrypted, which is another fantastic tool! The scrubbing on Scrypted NVR is a lot less painful, but a lot more expensive. I enjoy supporting small open source projects, though.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I did it pretty inexpensive in the cameras front. Got a bunch of TP-Link Tapo cameras, registered them in the app, set the rtsp and Onvif on Frigate, and completely blocked their internet access. Works like a charm with cameras in the $25-65 range.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My issue with tp-link is that their require their app for setup and they lose time once blocked from the internet.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I have not seen the time issue, maybe because Frigate handles all recordings and the cameras are just, well, cameras.

I'll look into that loosing time subject, and if it happens to me, I think there should be a way to change the NTP server, or at least I hope.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The cameras won’t even pick on DHCP provided NTP. The best way to get around it seems to intercept all NTP traffic from the camera and fwd to the local server.