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:
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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.
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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?
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.