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How are you handling reminders? Calendars and Tasks you need to remember. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kiol@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I've been continuing to rely on

  • Lightning calendars for Thunderbird
    • Reminders are locally set in Thunderbird
  • CalDAV from Nextcloud Calendar
    • Not really sure of how to handle reminders in Calendar itself
  • Fossify Calendar for Android, from F-droid
    • Supports adding a reminder to a CalDAV event and to set an event as recurring
  • Tasks oscillate between Nextcloud Tasks, Deck and Kanboard
    • Kanboard is complex, but far better featured than Tasks or Deck, so I prefer it. Still struggling managing too many tasks on Kanboard because of the interface, but once an item is added it works well.
  • Markdown, is a way I find myself adding tasks using - [ ] syntax, but these are not visible in Thunderbird, etc. so not totally helpful. :(

Thunderbird integrates into Knotifications in KDE and does give me nice, annoying alarms. Would love to explore other solutions, but this one has been okay for the last years. Wondering if this longtime setup could be refined or replaced. Cheers, and thanks for any suggestions!

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[โ€“] FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You strike me as a user who'd benefit greatly from minimizing tool counts--this is a lot of steps for what a small pocketbook and pen can accomplish.[Also very little can match the pen/paper combo's security levels]

With all that said, I know paper can't grab your attention on its own, for this reason I overlap with tuta calendar (Which should be a reasonable level of security and convenience imho).

When you using that many separate techs, it has to almost feel like the tools themselves require more attention and care than the work you need planned and structured.

[โ€“] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I personally use pen and paper predominantly. The tools built up over years, so it is more cruft from time. They mostly work together because it is Caldav from Nextcloud -> Thunderbird or Dax5 + Mobile Calendar app. Just find any of them do not work in quite the way I would prefer. You know?