The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

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Standard Notes

#Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions

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Org mode

Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but Org-mode for Emacs [1] is just <i>great</i>, and fits very well to the requirements: - Source of truth: these are text files, so any of git, nextcloud, syncthing etc. Will do. - Consistent interface: using emacs might be tough on mobile, but there are some web interfaces for Org mode [2] - Standard protocols: custom scripting does anything. Ical is pretty easy to handle, not sure about webdav. - FOSS: check - Multiple calendars: yep, via Org agenda [3] - Subtask support: As deep as you can go - Custom logic: via emacs scripts (or some creativity if you're using the web ui above) - Markdown notes: yes, minimal differences between org mode and markdown [1] https://orgmode.org/ [2] https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web [3] https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html.

#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

> Great UI This is very subjective; I hate it ;). I consider Apple's Mail.app/Calendar.app/etc much better UI-wise. > Android Note that Outlook for Android (not sure about iOS version) is rebranded Acompli client, which sucked all your email into the cloud. This was instant no-go when it originally came out, so I ended up with Nine (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3), which has an additional advantage, that the device admin rules enforced by Exchange can be applied to app only, not to the entire device.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1175 social mentions

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Zim Wiki

I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned Zim: https://zim-wiki.org/ From their site: " Zim can be used to: <pre><code> Keep an archive of notes.

#WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions

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Amna

Hey, I'm building a productivity app that can do calendar, tasks and notes. I've never thought about building around WebDav or ICal. Mainly because those protocols seem to be abstracted away by Google, Apple, and Outlook APIs, so it never crossed my mind to create something on top of the barebones protocol to manage calendar events. Anyways, here's my pitch. I'm building Amna (https://getamna.com), it stores data locally. You can access it via settings. Everything in Amna is a task. Notes live in tasks. Works on Mac, Windows, Linux. Linux I haven't tested, but people told me it works :) I'm still working on syncing data across devices, so right now it's a janky git-like push/pull model. Once that's figured out you get a iOS and Android too. If you reach out to me, I can give you a token to try the cloud stuff.

#Task Management #Productivity #Todos 12 social mentions

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Kolab Now

Likewise, I expected kolab to appear in TFA's list of evaluated options, as I knew it has been around for a while and covered most (all?) of the author's requirements. IIRC it was a key element in Munich's initial 'let's move to GNU/Linux' project, so I imagined it had received a LOT of updates for those few years. The repo [0] looks like it's still getting lots of love. The commercial entity doing much of the free software development runs a hosted version [1], which is also encouraging. [0] https://git.kolab.org/source/kolab/ [1] https://kolabnow.com/.

#Email #Email Clients #Enterprise Communication 3 social mentions

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Dribbble

Correcting a small typo in the above, I assume it's https://dribbble.com/ I wasn't familiar, but this site fits the comment better, so I assume that's what was meant.

#Designers Community #Social Networks #Design Inspiration 220 social mentions

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LifeWork Calendar

#Project Management #Slack #Productivity 11 social mentions

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ReclaimAI

Most calendar apps can display many calendars at once, overlaid on top of each other. But often a problem is that people in one organization can really only check the free/busy time for one of your calendars (the primary calendar associated with that org), and thus end up booking you when you're busy on one of those other calendars. I'm guessing this is the root problem you're getting at with your comment. Until the platforms themselves (ie: Office and Google) offer up a native way to indicate that multiple calendars represent your busy time, you're kinda stuck with this problem without employing a third party service. The good news is there is a solution to this problem -- my own startup[1] has a feature[2] that watches source calendars and creates blocks of time on a target calendar. It offers several different privacy options, such as making the block simply say "Personal Commitment" or "busy" or having it carry through all the event details (but not attendees because that would create a mess). [1] https://reclaim.ai/.

#Project Management #Time Tracking #Slack 136 social mentions

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Doom Emacs

I found [doom-emacs](https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs) to be very pleasant to use. Loading times are so much better than spacemacs. And using an external binary for updating etc. Really helps.

#Text Editors #IDE #Knowledge Management 154 social mentions

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Hacker News Search

Https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=dang%20brandonm%20dropbox&sort=byPopularity&type=comment I think this is what I was remembering.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1920 social mentions

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DuckDuckGo

It was certainly not known by that name[1] but the tension between designers with a cognitive/ergonomic/human factors/HCI/research focus and those with a visual/aesthetic/artistic focus goes back a lot further. Having said that, the shift in favor of visual/aesthetic designers does seem to be somewhat recent. My impression is that companies scrambled to hire interface designers when good interfaces became a selling point for consumers, which led to a lot of graphic/print/visual/web designers switching over to UX, and some of those designers never got around to learning about the rest of UX. Whatever the reason, there simply seem to be more designers these days who operate as if the most important aspect of a design is how it looks. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dribbblization+dribbblisation.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1669 social mentions

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Logseq

I love Org mode but the fact that relies on emacs can push some people from using it. I've been using lately [logseq](https://logseq.com/) and it's fantastic. Has the features I love from Org mode, plus what I like from Workflowy, stores the data in plain text in Markdown and supports cross references, images, and more. I love it.

#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions