I'm sorry but this is kind of a wtf to me. What's wrong with a text file? I thought I was being fancy by using org mode, which is just a text file with some markup. If you want to be really fancy you could use a bug tracker. fossil-scm.org has a built in one that I might try sometime.
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Obsidian ain't that bad, its pretty overkill and not exactly open source but it is nice when I'm using syncthing with it and have access to community plugins, I just noticed recently umbrel even added a obsidian app to their store so self hosting it doesn't seem like a crazy issue to me idk about if self.st has obsidian on it or not but its an option at least.
I've been self hosting https://usememos.com/ for the past 6 months on my Tailnet and its been working great without issues
Oh! I love my Memos app for general note taking but for making lists that I can find / add to / prune quickly, I've had less luck with it. I am probably just stuck in my ways but I'm going to keep looking. Thanks anyway.
I stuck with superproductivity. It supperts boards (you can configure your own board, but kanban and eisenhower are build in i think (i dont use that feature) i like how they handle projects and task storage. They have a philosophy of not adding task from a project to the daily clutter, you chose yourself. If helps to not feel overwhelmed and it can store tasks.
Its not that good for lists of things imo, its better for for timetracking. But you can create a task and easily do subtasks and use it as a list. Also I think it is installable via docker but I don't know, I havent used docker, but a search gave some results.
+1 for SP. Started using it recently. It's okay. Beat out other ones I was considering. Not blown away, but functional. Can sync it using webdav.
It's funny how this works... Right after submitting this I stumbled upon Vikunja. https://vikunja.io/
It looks good, at a glance. Anyone with experience using it?
I love it. Use it for shared shopping list with my wife.
I use it daily. I like it a lot. I've hooked my voice home assistant into it to create tasks. The Android app is alright. I have some problems with the widget not updating properly, but I think that was my fault for not turning on automatic sync.
The docker setup was trivial.
Use the tasks.org app and webdav to connect to vikunja. Works really well.
Iβve taken a brief look at it. The ui is fairly slick, but you have to use it their way and it doesnβt have a cli. How much that matters is up to you.
This may not qualify since its technically a notes app I guess, but I do use it also for to do lists: https://github.com/ZhFahim/anchor
Thanks, I had not heard of that before. The UI looks really nice but I don't see the same flexible list making that I am looking for. I will check this out if nothing else comes along.
For todo I use my Radicale instance and Tasks.org as my mobile client. It's all treated as CalDAV which I was already using so it's convenient
Nextcloud and Jtxboard
Instead of new and exciting, how about old and boring? https://taskwarrior.org/
Sync server is self hosted, itβs more configurable and programmable than anything else and has a variety of front ends on different platforms.
Thanks but CLI only is a deal breaker for me.
Fair enough! The lack of a cli is the deal breaker for Vikunja for me.
There is a WASM ticket being worked on that once it is completed will allow for all sorts of fancy web UIs for TaskWarrior as standalone PWAs or whatever. I should check in on how thatβs going.