njordomir

Ah, so I just misunderstood the terminology. That’s great. Much appreciated.

Protip, if you think about what you post before you post it, you don’t have to scrub the record after the fact. :D

Thanks for the reply. I have Vikjuna running and it’s honestly pretty similar to TickTick.

The mobile site works great as a PWA and I grabbed the app just to see what they where working on. PWA is great, app is still very much WIP, but not a deal-breaker at all.

I do have one workflow that seems to clash. Perhaps you folks can help me logic something together:

I have a family member who is very list-adverse. They get upset and stressed out with due dates, and missed deadlines, and competing priorities. I still need them to help with chores. I was wondering if there was a way to have tasks in a project regenerate themselves when they are marked complete with a start date x days into the future. The basic idea is that instead of seeing “You didn’t clean the toilet on 1-June-2026.” they would see something like “Clean toilet, task created 10 days ago (with no due date).” Planka showed the number of days since a card was created in the bottom right of the card but didn’t support recurrence (and didn’t appear to be fully FOSS despite being self-hosted). Ideally, someone could go to look at the tasks and instead of seeing “You should have cleaned the sink on 2-JUNE you failure,” they could instead just see all the chores on cards with a number showing how long they’ve been sitting without being done. Know anything like that?

I use Obsidian in other contexts (e.g. long-term goal setting, journaling, knowledge recall). I tried to use it for tasks, but quickly over-complicated things. I have a lot of tasks and it can be hard to wrangle everything without a bunch of smart lists and tags and such. I may give it another try. I’m making a list of solutions I want to try for a week or two each. This is the core of my daily routine (along with my calendar), so it feels reasonable to over analyze the choice.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m about to sound like a grumpy old man: I’m mildly frustrated with Nextcloud, though I’ve used it for a few years and the calendar sync and file features are pretty good. I’m annoyed not because they did anything that really deserves my annoyance, but for years they resisted the call to be able to select ISO 8601 date and time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD). Instead I was pushed into the MM-DD-YYYY that’s commonly used here in the States, and only after cobbling together a horrific combo of language and regional formats did I get a Monday-starting week with 24h time and a YYYY-MM-DD date format. despite the days being in a weird language or something. No other piece of software I used tied date and time options so immutably to a single local and then gets defensive in the comments when a bunch of people don’t fit that mold. Most just have a dropdown for each format so you can tailor it to what you use. They also love to put so much whitespace between elements I’m worried I’ll be able ts see only 5 tasks or so without scrolling (common web 2.0 design failure). I’m sure Nextcloud is awesome. I’ve experienced that, but I’m waiting for it to mature a bit more before I dump a bigger workload onto it. Using NC does have one big advantage for me as my NC box is the only one accessible on he web without VPNing into my network.

I also REALLY like that the old Astrid app ties in with tasks.org

jtxboard I’ve heard of, but don’t remember. I’m gonna poke around and see if that one does it for me. Thanks again!