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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.