What apps do you recommend for people? Which apps did you start integrating into your day to day once you discovered they were there? Which apps solved a problem you faced?

  • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOP
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    1 year ago

    I installed nextcloud at first because I was looking for a basic forms app. Not something very complex, just needed something simple. The best I found was Nextcloud Forms. So I ended up driving a nail not with a hammer, but a battering ram. But I knew that I might find other uses later.

    Since then, I’ve discovered and used many apps.

    • Files lets me easily share documents with others with a link.
    • I started storing recipes in Cookbook, instead of links in a file.
    • I started storing bookmarks across all my devices in Bookmarks and floccus.
    • I got into podcasts by subscribing to RSS feeds with News.
    • I started doing my todo lists digitally with Tasks. This one in particular has very much changed my daytoday along with the android app tasks from tasks.org.
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      1 year ago

      How are you liking the tasks app? I haven’t used it much but I was trying the Deck app for a while as a Trello replacement but found it too basic. I was wondering if the regular tasks app was missing any useful features too.

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        1 year ago

        I actually started with deck and then moved to tasks because I likes the simplicity of a binary “done/not done” as apposed to moving cards across boards (which I used todo/doing/done). Theres a couple features that I use on a given task, like dates, descriptions, and subtasks, but thats it. I suspect that if deck was insufficient for you, thats tasks isnt the right solution either.

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          1 year ago

          I was looking at tasks.org and it seems pretty nice. I think I have two types of tasks usually. Some are more project oriented and fit better with a trello style kanban board, but I also have simpler ones like grocery lists, bill reminders, etc. I use remember the milk for that currently, but I’ll probably try switching.

          I was also looking at etesync recently for caldav/cardav but I kind of like the idea of it being integrated into nextcloud better.

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            1 year ago

            Youve reminded me that deck and tasks actually integrate with one another. If you have a deck card assigned to you, it shows up in a special feed in tasks as well. I think its a little clunky but might be a feature of interest. I just opted for all tasks, since my nextcloud is single user.