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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Many have mentioned org-mode. I used it for years but have moved on to todo.txt and markdown. I use syncthing to keep notes up to date on my phone and computer. I edit with whatever is available on my desktop and I use markor notes on my phone.

I think this setup only lacks the recurring tasks option. I think org-mode can do that but I use my calendar for that.

This is a highly personal topic so I'd suggest trying as many things as you can. Something will stick eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to do this, but todo.txt is a dead format now unfortunately, the maintainers left a long time ago. Tasks.org is where its at, open-source, sync how you want, tagging, recurring tasks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it dead or complete? For my purposes, it doesn't need any changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Try asking the maintainers for clarification or an update on anything. They're gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is a highly personal topic so I'd suggest trying as many things as you can.

Seconded!