this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
15 points (100.0% liked)

Software recommendations

1153 readers
17 users here now

Do you want to know the best program to do something? Ask it here and discover the best options to choose between. Do not be shy

Anyone can ask for products by making a post. There are no posts because I think people think that they can not post but they can now

Want to get recommendations to non-software topics? Go to Recommendations

rules: instance rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
15
Looking for a program to document things in life. (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hello all. I'm looking for (a) program(s) to manage & document things in life. Mainly these features are what I need:

  • Diary, random notes(like a wiki?) with version control
  • TODO list, auto added to diary at that time period
  • Ability to attach images and text files to those diary, notes
  • Calendar with schedule synced with TODO
  • Easy backup, preferably in plaintext or simple db
  • Text search

Currently I'm using SeaMonkey and my phone(android) to manage calendar (so two separated ones), a paper note to write diaries and use dokuwiki for random notes. This setup is too complicated and isn't productive at all.

I do think my requirements are kinda abstract, and there most likely isn't a single program that can do all this. Although basic I'm a novice FreeBSD & Emacs+evil user so *nix-only or text-based utilities are okay. I'm not aware of any program that meets these needs, is there anything that resembles what I'm thinking? Thanks!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Have you looked into https://obsidian.md? I just briefly looked and found this plugin for a calendar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I second obsidian! I use it for a daily diary and various notes. You can either use a network share and Syncthing to sync your files between multiple devices, or just pay a few dollars for their (completely encrypted) cloud service

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, though it isn't open source (and no BSD support) it looks cool, I might try. I'm curious, is there a version control system available in it? Or would that be possible with a plugin?

Edit: Seems like it's Electron based :/ Looks pretty good but that's such a big con..

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

You can version control it yes. To your Electron point, personally I think it's a very well put together app, it doesn't at all feel like it's Electron with usual sluggishness; it's very responsive and quick.