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Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software?

Posted by BeauHD on from the suggestion-box dept.

Albanach writes: Despite searching, I have not identified a good solution for managing to-do lists, a problem that can't be unique or unusual. For a variety of reasons, I need something I host myself, which allows me to organize tasks, give them due dates and/or priorities and to easily reorganize. I'd prefer a web interface so that I can access my list from home/work/mobile. My searches generally turned up hosted solutions that don't work for privacy reasons, or very old software that has shown no sign of updates in years. What are other Slashdotters using to manage their real-world task list?

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  1. Emacs org mode by seasunset · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am one of those who moved to emacs because of org-mode.

    Give it a try. If emacs is the kitchen sink, emacs is the rest of the house. And it is especially good as a (human) task manager

  2. Nextcloud by Duckman5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can rather easily host an instance of Nextcloud on rather modest hardware in my experience. It just needs to be able to run apache/nginx, php, and sqlite (you're supposed to use mariadb/mysql but don't absolutely need to if you're just running it for yourself). Activate the tasks app and you're good to go. The entire infrastructure is all open source and you get a whole lot more benefits than just self-hosted tasks.

    Everything is accessible with CalDAV so you can use the built-in sync from the iPhone or DAVdroid and OpenTasks on Android. For desktop/laptop you can access it from the web interface or through your preferred groupware software.

    Since security is an issue, if you don't want to pay for an SSL certificate you can self-sign one or get one from Let's Encrypt.

  3. Re:Self-hosting by coofercat · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wonder too...

    It's 'cloud' hosted, but thus far has been pretty well behaved: Todoist (https://todoist.com/). It has about a bajillion features I don't use (hell, I don't even put due dates on my tasks). It's a nice way to quickly take down items you need to remember and then tick off later though. I'm on the free version, which hasn't been 'nagware' at all, offers enough basic functionality to be useful and so far doesn't appear to be showing me "related ads" or any such thing.

    So if 'self hosted' is an absolute requirement, I'd recommend checking them out so you know what you need to copy ;-)