I’m still on my little adventure of pulling my crap off the cloud and realized my calendar is still blowing around out there. What do people use for their personal calendars nowadays?
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I have a paper calendar on my wall. It’s really nice because I find writing things down helps me remember, and also because you can get ones with different pictures or jokes or facts or recipes on the other side, so you get a new set each month.
Also if you follow two calendar systems it’s particularly nice because they can both be on the same calendar. (For example mine is a combined hebrew gregorian calendar, which is much nicer than just having the computer tell me when holidays are)
Private I use Nextcloud + Betterbird (Thunderbird Softfork (stays compatible with the matching esr version)) + DAVx5 for Android.
At work we use an old web calendar in php5, as this is the only calendar we found that has a side by side view. Each coworker has his own calendar and in the 4 week view, each is displayed side by side. We didn’t found any replacement with that kind of view. Also we use the categories very strict. Each entry need a category, the admin defines the categories and it shows icons for it. Nextcloud even introduced categories a few years ago and still doesn’t have the option to define ones and delete default ones. You can add own categories on the fly, but this is so bad in design, as everyone needs discipline, which doesn’t happen.
Radicale on my server and davx5 on my android to sync contacts and calendar.
Radicale + Luna / Fossify Calendar
Plain ol’ spreadsheet.
Nextcloud, CalDAV, Thunderbird.
Same, thunderbird on pc, davx5 + fossify calendar on android/grapheneos
This, but with DAVx⁵ as a CardDAV client app on Android.
Using this as well, but potentially shifting to Radicale. Nextcloud has pissed me off one too many times.
But how?
I run nextcloud and have had maybe 2 update fails in the “mumbles” years I have run it, yes it is a monster with resource. So the bigger the box it’s on the better it runs
I have had zero issues for two years now using Nextcloud AIO. Use is heavy with multiple users. Planning to set up a personal one next.
Interested in hearing about the problems you’re having
Do it.
I found no-one used the NC interface for anything, so it was a lot of maintenance for no reason.
I replaced NC with Radicale and syncthing
What maintenance is there, really? Nextcloud AIO is great
True, but, I don’t need docker or a VMM to run it in, or as many resources. Backups are easier, updates are predictable… and are adverts now a thing with the AIO?
I come from the early days when every NC point release needed a lot of tweaks to even make it work… hence the AIO was born from that mess.
I just found a simpler solution…
I don’t see how backups are easier - Nextcloud AIO has borg backup built in as well.
Haven’t had to think about updates, they just happen.
And I haven’t seen a single advert, not sure what that’s about either.
But I had some problems with the windows client updates. That was a couple years back. Crashed explorer on update. Back then a restart was necessary to update anyway.
I use the same, I just forget about it because I hate and so rarely use my phone, haha.
Radicale + client (Thunderbird on desktop, fossify calendar on phone)
This is the way. Radicale was super easy to set up via docker.
Radicale is also really easy to setup as a “normal” package… I have it running on a Pi.
Such a small, simple system, it’s great.
I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.
Etar with davx5 and self-hosted Baikal
I host a CalDAV server (specifically Nextcloud’s Calendar app, though plenty of others exist, like Radicale) and all my devices sync with it.
nano todo
fossify for “phone”
tutaCalendar to synchronise events with partner
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.calendar + https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tutao.calendar
I have a paper 4 year calendar hanging on the wall. Takes a while to write in all the dates and holidays. With liquid paper/white out I have been using the same calendar for well over 10 years.
On my phone - Fossify Calendar.
That paper calendar must be rigid now with all that white paint 🤭
Baikal
no notifications
too much scrolling
I have a small cron job that cuts the line for the day before into yesterday.txt, so today is always at the top of the file. I don’t need notifications.
