calendars off the cloud - what do you use?
from muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 07:54
https://sh.itjust.works/post/58290204

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?

#selfhosted

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 07:56 next collapse

a yearly paper calendar tacked to my wall

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 07:59 next collapse

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.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 10 Apr 16:29 collapse

That paper calendar must be rigid now with all that white paint 🤭

drkt@scribe.disroot.org on 10 Apr 08:05 next collapse

nano todo

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 10 Apr 08:09 next collapse

I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.

frischkaesbagett@feddit.org on 10 Apr 08:13 next collapse

Is CalDAV a cloud service? Usable with some email-providers Mike mailbox.org and posteo.de

randy@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 08:24 next collapse

I host a CalDAV server (specifically Nextcloud’s Calendar app, though plenty of others exist, like Radicale) and all my devices sync with it.

comrademiao@piefed.social on 10 Apr 08:29 next collapse

Baikal or micro notes.md

johsny@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 08:36 next collapse

calendar.txt

There is a template on the web:

terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/

merde@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 13:02 collapse

no notifications

too much scrolling

johsny@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 22:08 collapse

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.

zeitverschreib@freundica.de on 10 Apr 08:36 next collapse

@muusemuuse Nextcloud, Baikal, Radicale, ...

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 12:03 collapse

nextcloud, owncloud, someother-cloud…I remember there being a lot of drama with these last time I looked at them. what’s the current state of the union on these?

zeitverschreib@freundica.de on 10 Apr 23:02 collapse

@muusemuuse IMHO Nextcloud is still the best package.

However, if your just looking for a selfhosted calendar, NC might be overkill.

cecilkorik@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 08:42 next collapse

Nextcloud, CalDAV, Thunderbird.

IratePirate@feddit.org on 10 Apr 12:16 next collapse

This, but with DAVx⁵ as a CardDAV client app on Android.

meathappening@lemmy.ml on 10 Apr 14:15 next collapse

Using this as well, but potentially shifting to Radicale. Nextcloud has pissed me off one too many times.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 10 Apr 16:27 next collapse

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

passenger@sopuli.xyz on 11 Apr 01:58 collapse

What maintenance is there, really? Nextcloud AIO is great

Cyber@feddit.uk on 11 Apr 03:46 collapse

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…

passenger@sopuli.xyz on 11 Apr 06:10 collapse

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.

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 11 Apr 00:17 next collapse

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

passenger@sopuli.xyz on 11 Apr 01:54 collapse

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

cecilkorik@piefed.ca on 10 Apr 15:57 collapse

I use the same, I just forget about it because I hate and so rarely use my phone, haha.

passenger@sopuli.xyz on 11 Apr 01:19 collapse

Same, thunderbird on pc, davx5 + fossify calendar on android/grapheneos

circledot@feddit.org on 10 Apr 08:53 next collapse

Baikal

jasonweiser@sh.itjust.works on 11 Apr 19:55 collapse

Dead simple and has worked for me for years, now.

github.com/sabre-io/Baikal

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 09:53 next collapse

Radicale + client (Thunderbird on desktop, fossify calendar on phone)

OutOfMemory@piefed.social on 10 Apr 15:14 collapse

This is the way. Radicale was super easy to set up via docker.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 10 Apr 16:25 collapse

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.

Ooops@feddit.org on 10 Apr 11:08 next collapse

Mainly my normal phone app. But for a long time it’s not sync’d to some google cloud (which would be the default) but a Radicale instance.

I used Nextcloud before but honestly it’s a mess to maintain. So much that I would not suggest it without planning to extensively use a lot of the different available addon functions.

Just for file sharing and caldav/carddav I will pick some simple solutions (like Radicale and Syncthing) over Nextcloud any day.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 12:02 collapse

interesting, I can tell my existing apple stuff to point to my own instance run on radicale instead of icloud…I dont know why I didnt consider that. its all caldav under the hood

thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Apr 12:37 next collapse

Opencloud for me

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 10 Apr 12:44 collapse

Have they cleaned up their docker compose setup somewhat? Last time I checked it was a hot mess

Nomad@infosec.pub on 10 Apr 13:05 next collapse

SoGo server, comes with webmail, web calendar, tasks and contacts all sync able via DAVx5. I actually sell these to customers as I get these kinds of requests more and more often.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 13:36 collapse

tempting but my understanding is hosting your own email means nobody will accept what you send and its constantly going to be attacked. I dont really have the chops to beat back that kind of thing.

Nomad@infosec.pub on 10 Apr 22:06 collapse

You are talking about reputation management which is not as big a deal as you might think.

Email is a simple system but there are a lot of things at work to prevent (more like reduce) spam.

Some DNS knowledge and some friendly emails to a few abuse @ addresses and a few months of quiet reputation building and you are set.

Add a few weeks of rspamd training and you won’t see much spam either.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 10 Apr 13:05 next collapse

fossify for “phone”

tutaCalendar to synchronise events with partner

f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.calendar + f-droid.org/packages/de.tutao.calendar

jjlinux@lemmy.zip on 10 Apr 20:55 next collapse

Etar with davx5 and self-hosted Baikal

fozid@feddit.uk on 10 Apr 23:19 next collapse

Radicale on my server and davx5 on my android to sync contacts and calendar.

Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml on 11 Apr 05:04 next collapse

Radicale + Luna / Fossify Calendar

Fedditor385@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 06:06 next collapse

Plain ol’ spreadsheet.

ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 13:00 next collapse

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.

u9000@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Apr 19:14 next collapse

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)

forestbeasts@pawb.social on 11 Apr 21:54 next collapse

We use Nextcloud. (It’s honestly about the only thing we use Nextcloud for.) For adding events and checking stuff we just use the web UI; it’s also synced to Kalendar/Merkuro Calendar on our desktop and we get calendar notifications that way.

– Frost

whelk@retrolemmy.com on 11 Apr 23:43 collapse

I’ve been playing with calcurse and calcure, both TUI calendars because I can’t keep something like Thunderbird open on my cruddy low RAM laptop. There are some sync methods but they’re pretty janky. I’m tempted to just set up a plaintext file with appointments and have a script scan for the upcoming 24 hours for notifications or something