My life is pretty disorganized with stuff at school, work, and extracurriculars. For a few months now I’ve been encouraged to get a planner instead of keeping it all in my head. Now don’t get me wrong, I love taking physical notes and doing homework on paper with my nice pens and such. However, I do need a planner that syncs from my phone, laptop, and desktop.
I’ve been scouring for an open source solution to all this and a few months ago, I found Super Productivity. It had pretty much all of what I needed, places to put down tasks, a pomodoro timer, clients for desktop and mobile, and a place to see my progress. I didn’t use its syncing features though, because, it only allows dropbox, webdav, and local file sync. I thought it was pretty incomplete.
Over the course of this week I realized that I had a NAS that I could access outside of home so I could sync everything with my synology drive folder, allowing uploading and downloading of the .json file across all my devices. This works extremely well and very seamlessly. Now, I have a completely open source solution that doesn’t really ping any servers apart from saving a .json file locally and then syncing to my server. It’s a dream come true and works works amazingly.
After seeing how much this piece of software has transformed my life, I am hoping to share this and hope you guys will start using it as well and support this dev. Planners usually cost me around $10 or so, I’ll probably give the dev at least that much once my paycheck rolls in.
I dont like the UX. For me its bad :/
In regards to productivity, you could also take a look at Get Things Done or Bullet Journal as time/task organization frameworks, or Zettelkasten if you need data/knowledge organization.
Are these cross platform and can they sync?
Those are philosophies more than software. There are open and proprietary apps for e.g. Bullet Journaling, but you can do it with pen and paper too.
Thanks for posting this. Interesting.
Keep in mind that you will have to decide what works for you. My experience for me is that there is a sweet spot. These is under planing and over planning. You will have to find the sweet spot yourself.
Also for me what I use is Thunderbird for contacts, calendar, and tasks. Then Joplin and Zim for notes. Recurrent tasks I use tasks… but bigger projects I just ouline in my notes app. For really big projects I’ll put it in a project planning tool and use Pert or Monte Carlo planning which is a totally different thing mostly for work and team management. For home I sync all this through Nextcloud but synology is a great choice too. For work I just kept I all on my laptop. Good not to have any work stuff on personal devices.
Too bad it’s MIT licensed, but oh well, nothing’s perfect 🤷.
What is wrong with that?
In practice, nothing much.
And in theory?
Weaker copyleft. Doesn’t guarantee freedom the way GPL does.
If someone were to make a proprietary derivative using the MIT licensed code, that would be allowed. Their source code changes aren’t required to be shared and licensed under a FLOSS license.
GPL on the other hand, guarantees (legally, not always in practice) that any derivatives are to be licensed the same way, so they must remain FLOSS.
Irrelevant. You can sublicense MIT to GPL by forking if you’re so inclined.
I was looking for a Todo app recently, thanks for sharing!
