My partner and I are using Microsoft To Do to share multiple lists, like a shopping list and ideas for vacations, presents for the kids etc. We already moved from Google to mailbox.org for e-mail and family calendars, but shared tasks somehow can’t be synced to other apps. Do you have any recommendations for good apps where people can share lists, that also have a browser UI (so they can be used on a PC without installation)?
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I built go-notes for exactly this reason. You deploy it on your server, then there is a nice web UI, android app, windows app and Linux app.
Multi user with live collaboration, so you can see each other typing in shared notes.
Looks nice, thanks for the heads up! We don’t have our own server, but I’ll keep it in mind.
That seems exactly what OP wanted. Nice work.
Tasks.org is great.
It can be synced via Davx5, caldav, etesync, decsync. Also via Microsoft to-do and google if you want to try it out without having to re-input everything before you commit.
Edit: sorry, didn’t see the web client thing. It doesn’t have that. However, you can sync to a computer email client like Thunderbird or evolution and use it there.
Thanks! I’m looking into tasks.org as an alternative app to use Microsoft to-do with it.
The problem is that mailbox.org as our alternative provider of task folders/lists can’t offer CalDAV format for shared lists, so we need a completely new host, if that’s the right word.
Yeah no email provider providers everything that you need I have found 😅
I believe the other sync options like decsync are made for syncing without a server per se.
Joplin is an open source todo app that is also on the fediverse: @joplinapp@mastodon.social
You are able to work with others and have possiblity to pay for their server or sync it otherwise. The dev comes from London acording to his github account.
Joplin is more of a “notes” app. But yes, you can do todo’s in it quite fine.
That’s true it’s more powerfull dann just lists, but that isn’t something bad right. Just do list if you want lists or do more if you want more.
I was hoping I could use Joplin with WebDAV from mailbox.org Drive, but that doesn’t seem to work for shared folders. It’s frustrating to have to pay so much for the server hosting, but I’m considering it.
I have mailbox as well and I used to be quite heavily involved in Joplin (on the community management and moderation side of things), what exactly is it you were trying to do that doesn’t work? I’d be interested to see, I personally still use a self hosted thing on a raspberry pi but as I pay for mailbox I can’t say it wouldn’t use useful to maybe swap to that.
I’m struggling with a stupid edge case. I can integrate the mailbox drive using WebDAV for Joplin as you would expect, but I can’t find the right URL (if there is any) to link directly to the shared folder my partner and I have. I tried to avoid that problem by using DAVx5 to mount the mailbox drive directly on my phone (works perfectly, has access also to the shared folders), but if I link that to Joplin via the “file system” option, Joplin is thrown because apparently the file names are not just the name of the file, as expected, but include the path to the mount as well.
Oh weird, yeah its not going to be happy having weird names inside its own sync target folder…
You could use any cloud service with free option like pcloud(eu version) and enable encryption. For me it worked on my email service
I am using Obsidian for taking notes and making to-do lists. Maybe it is too complex to use it only for tasks, but i’m really happy with it so might be worth checking out. Although there is no web interface you could use, everything is stored in local text files (in markdown), it could be somebody made an editor or a viewer.
But do you share it with someone else?
Thanks for asking my question! A friend is using Obsidian and he said sharing lists is difficult there…
I like Vikunja. https://vikunja.io/
However, this is more meant to run on your own server. If you are not able to, there are some free servers out there - but I was only able to find German ones until now.
I’m still not sure if I understand how it works, but I like the name and design and will look deeper into it, thanks.
What is it, that is not clear to you exactly? More the whole “run on your own server” thing or just “how vukunja works” on an application level?
(I will try to explain if you want and if I can.)
The hosting, or specifically the joining somebody else’s hosting server, since we currently don’t host our own.
Ah, OK.
So Vikunja itself is “just” an application. And it needs to be executed somewhere. So hosting it on a webserver like your own website would be the “intended way”.
However, web hosting can be a little bit complex, if you have absolutely no prior knowledge about that. So, I wouldn’t recommend it for novices. (But, it can be a fun hobby if you want to learn something new.)
But fortunately, you don’t necessarily need to do the work of hosting it yourself on your own. Other friendly people are already running Vikunja on their server and are providing it as a free service to others. (Check out the two links I provided in my original reply.)
You can sign up on their instance and use it like any other web service. So, I would recommend to open an account at one of their servers for the purpose of trying out Vikunja. If you like it, you can still think about registering somewhere else or hosting it on your own.
Thank you, that really helps.
