1y ago

Looking for a kanban-ish thing for around the house / chores

I want to be able to keep track of certain things I (or more accurately, we as a family) need to do. E.g. paint the shed, call the people to clean the roof, pack bags for vacation, etc. It will just be shared between me and my partner. My partner is not super technical but is relatively open-minded to me wanting to do things differently (kicking out netflix in favour of plex, using mealie for recipes, etc..).

We previously used Nextcloud Deck but since switching to Immich I just want to rid of nextcloud entirely. The deck app is still there but doesn't sync anymore (imagine the embarrassment finding out your partner is still trying to use the thing you persuaded her into using but forgot that it broke) I need to find something else.

It needs to be relatively simple (or able to hideaway complexities)
Single board is fine, multiple would be nice
We just do a todo/doing/done flow.
We really like the 'board' way of working, dragging and dropping a task from doing to done etc
Tasks need due dates, descriptions, attachments, possibly comments
native android app, I'm not sure if the state of PWA's is already so far that it would not dink on the spouse approval factor. I remember mealie logging us out so often.

What i've tried / read:

kanboard: this seems like the best candidate, but lacks a proper android app. This is a major dealbreaker. There was an android app called khanos but that doesn;t work anymore. I tried WiserBoard but that just seems like an Indian company taking Khanos and removing all attribution - it keeps asking for a shit ton of permissions so I got sketched out and deleted it.
focalboard: looks nice, maybe a bit complex.. No android app.

I had my hopes set on kanboard but ehhhhhh

What are others using for this purpose?

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In manufacturing the kanban board is a literal board. A white board or paper attached to a wall.
- I was going to suggest this too. A magnetic white board on a conspicuous wall in a common space. It's what my wife and I use for her cottage food business. Whiteboard marker, post-its, or notes affixed by magnets.
  
  We used post-it notes on a wall at a previous workplace to aid a truly useless manager. It didn't make him a better manager, but it did have upsides. It felt great to crunch completed tasks up into little balls and throw them in the recycling when we did standups. The extra visibility in the room was really helpful too, other colleagues would ask us about our work or when we might be free for their whims, and we could just point at the wall and say "after all that shit is done?". Usually they would see the mountain in the to-do columns and say "oh." and then walk off dejectedly. It stopped a lot of bullshit requests with the mere presence of colourful papers fluttering in the aircon, including incompetent managerial scope creep.
  The fridge would work well for this with some little magnets and/or a whiteboard marker, like people do with reward charts for kids.

Have you looked at Trello? It has an android app and can be a simple layout or more complex.
- I guess that being in a selfhosted community OP wants something selfhosted. Just my guess.

Vikunja might be what you're looking for.
The android app is in development since forever, so don't expect to have one anytime soon, but the PWA is good combined with a password manager for the logouts.

I personally found that https://taiga.io hits a sweet spot for me. It's a beautiful app. Not too simple but robust enough to configure. There's at least one good mobile client out there too.

https://github.com/plankanban/planka was more competent than it looked a few years ago, might be even better now.

I am using vikunja for the same thing
- Their app is still in alpha though...

Ora.pm can do what you want I think.
Can I ask why your trying to drop nextcloud? I only really hear people raving about it. Been considering setting it up for myself.
Maybe also check out anytype

Kanban is probably way overkill as a model for what you want. The key about Kanban is control of WIP/Queues at various stages and pulling items through the workflow. With a simple ToDo/WIP/Done workflow, you're probably going to find any Kanban apps are too complicated for what you get out of them.

Open project might work but could be overkill.
https://www.openproject.org/

Try https://plane.so/

Todoist would work great for this. Projects can be shown as a list or a board (configurable), and you can have sections like "todo", "doing", and "done". In a board format, these would be similar to a kanban board, except for the "done" automation — when you're done, you need to tick the task card. You also get assignees, due dates, comments, attachments, native apps everywhere, and so on.

Was looking for the same for ages. Every option I found was either some bloated docker solution or a dead project.
Gave up and just created a repo named "Todo" on my git server. It's not really designed to be used for this kind of stuff but git and a web ui works perfectly fine. Just open a new issue. Give it a title and a brief description, a due date and some tags. Then you can create more subtasks, add comments to each, references etc. Even got my non-technical wife to use it.
With some customization you could probably get exactly what you want.
Edit: just realized you probably wanted something more simple. Set up a caldav server and sync the tasks using your preferred to-do app.

Not related to your question, sorry, but I'm curious to know why did you switched to Immich. We're you using Memory in Nextcloud? I'm asking because I'm using it, I've read good thing about Immich and I don't know if it's worth migrating since I'll be keeping Nextcloud for other stuff. Thanks!

Not really self-hosted in the typical sense, but Obsidian with the Tasks and/or Kanban plugin synced through a (self-hosted) solution of your choice could work?

I'm looking for the same thing

Not to hijack but I've been wanting something similar for personal tasks but using SCRUM. I figure I might be more motivated seeing how many "points" I could finish in a week vs a raw number of tasks.

I've enjoyed using Zenkit. You can view tasks in multiple ways (kanban as one of them) and has more features beyond simple task tracking, if you dig into it. Android/iOS apps and the web UI is quite good.

Could Zenkit work for you?

~~Nextcloud Deck?~~
Edit: read full post too hard for grug. grug use nextcloud tasks. nextcloud deck too confusing for grug. grug rather use actual paper sticky notes
- Dude, did you read the original post???

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