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I'm looking for a self hosted Kanban board where we as a exteded family can track things which have to be done. Since my parents are getting older and me and my siblings live all in different countries there is more and more to do to help our parents. But it's difficult to keep track who is doing what and what status things are and we're forgetting to do things, etc.

But because we will need to store confidential information there I am not so fond of using something like trello and would rather want to selfhost it.

I had a look at some of the self hosted KanBan boards, but none of them were mobile phone friendly. But we really need it to be mobile friendly, best case scenario would be a app for both Android and iPhone, but a PWA would be also OK. Most of the work in the tool will be done by us on mobile phones because we are doing it mostly on the go.

We don't need much functionality, Tasks, subtasks, comments, assignees, status and attachments would be the most important ones, different project would also be good.

Anyone has some idea what I should look into?

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[-] Endmaker@ani.social 20 points 3 months ago

Not adding anything useful to the discussion, but the "ban" in kanban is board 😅

So kanban board is like chai tea.

[-] crossover@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Let me pay for that chai tea using cash from the ATM machine and my PIN number. Would you also like some naan bread with it?

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 3 months ago

I always liked chai tea!

[-] rimu@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago

Did you try Planka? It's identical to Trello (before Salesforce bought it).

https://planka.app/

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 3 months ago
[-] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, I see what you mean. Technically it works but nothing is optimized for a small screen.

It has an app, altough i never managed to set it up correctly. (I can log in but it shows empty)

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

The mobile app is 3rd party and has not yet been updated for Planka v2.

Source: I use Planka a LOT.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, yes, the Jira folks.

I got Trello mixed up with Heroku.

[-] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Deck for Nextcloud has a nice app.

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah it looks good from the screenshots but I've been burned by NextCloud in the past a lot and would like to avoid it.

[-] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Did you run multiple users on SQLite?

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 3 months ago

I don't remember the details but there were several occasions

  1. The sync UX was so confusing that I set it up and deleted things on a unimportant device to make some room and that deleted it everywhere without me realizing it for some time so I lost those things forever. This is where I switched file syning to Syncthing.
  2. I ran it basically without apps only for syncing caldav and carddav and it took so many resources on my server that it constantly brought down the whole vhost with all other unrelated services and the UI was so slow I could only use it through the API from desktop and mobile clients. I then switched to the lightweight Radicals and deleted NextCloud which made space to many new services on the little Hetzner vhost.

I haven't seen self hosting small instances prioritized by NextCloud, I think it probably works very well on a beefy server for a lot of users, similar to Lemmy, but for one user instances it seems to not be well supported.

[-] pleksi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ive been very satisfied with my two user instance set up using the AIO container via docker compose. They have that as a standardized deployment method nowadays. You can choose additional integrated services like onlyoffice and schedule backups via borg in the AIO mastercontainer’s webUI. My server (with a i3 coffee lake and 16GB DDR4) has 14 other services including immich and jellyfin. No performance issues whatsoever. I think nextcloud has really stepped it up.

We (me and my wife) even use the kanban board as a PWA Although it’s a little clunky it works and all the deadlines even show up as tasks in my ical. Caldav was a bit weird to set up though.

Using the virtual file sync client for osx so most of the files are actually never kept on the client device.

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The only one I've tried before is Wekan. I'm not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you're needing, though. There's read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license

It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.

Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan

[-] TypFaffke@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

I'm testing Wekan in a volunteer project. It gets the job done, but it's rough around the edges and I wouldn't use it with people who don't necessarily know what they are doing. It works in a mobile browser, but it's no joy to use it there.

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure if it fits your criteria exactly, but Grocy has an assignable chore list. I've not used this function but I have used the mobile app which is solid.

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 3 months ago

That's a interesting one, it's quite different but looks very nice.

[-] ChogChog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It’s a bit heavy for your use case and as a docker image but I use YouTrack.

I use the knowledge base to build out my notes for my environments and it can handle uploading pretty big documents (useful for attaching pdfs)

It’s a bit overwhelming and complicated for normal use but wanted to throw it out there.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Vikings has a man an option and also allows task assignment to family members.

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure I understand, tried to google vikings but no Kanban or task management shows up.

[-] fhein@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

If you don't find any hostable service, perhaps you could try Obsidian if its Kanban plugin works well in the mobile client. It's closed source, but all data is stored in markdown files, and you could use a self-hosted git server for storage and synchronization between users.

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