Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux

Took me a while to find it, but this seems to be the repository:

* https://github.com/alainm23/planner

Some notes from a quick browse:

- Licensed GPL-3

- Written in Vala, using GTK

- Uses sqlite

- Meson+ninja as build system (which I like)

If it ran on Android too I'd replace Orgzly with this as I wish to have a tool I use both on my phone and laptop, synchronized via Syncthing (so far orgmode in emacs + orgzly gives me what I want, but I wish I had something a bit more pretty and user friendly like this Planner).

I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was initially a good enough solution, but Alain (the developer) has gone above and beyond to deliver an amazing tool. It is now every bit as good as Things and the Board view will be an awesome addition.

This is one of those times where the open source option is clearly the best tool. You don't give up anything. Plus, and I think this is important for something you use all day long, it is has a nice visual design that is easy to use and figure out.

This looks pretty good!

One of the most important things to me when using Todoist is seamless syncing between mobile and web. I absolutely need the possibility of quickly jotting down a task when I'm on the go. As well as getting a quick overview of the day in the morning or late in the evening without having to use the computer.

Todoist is actually one of the few apps I pay for and feel happy doing that. For me it's really money well spent as I'm pretty sure I recover the yearly cost in productivity gains in a few days max.

That being said, it's always nice to see good open source software being actively developed!

I appreciate its open-source nature. Although, to be completely honest, the functionality and design don't seem to provide anything unique in comparison to already existing apps like trello / todo apps which I believe suck. I have tried many of "productivity" tools but somehow always ended up with pen&paper or notepad app. I wonder if that's the best we can do in 21st century. And all of these apps seem to follow the same design paradigm.

After a pro-longed experimentation and reflection, I designed my own system. Shared it with friends and we're building a tool with a slightly different approach. Hopefully to address user problems holistically. If anyone's curious I'd be happy to share our work once ready. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18lEuJ9cQLhgiPaH1K1bp2j8yy_B...

In case anyone else was wondering, this doesn't seem to be the same thing as the Planner app of Gnome: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner

(Gnome's Planner doesn't look like it's being developed at the moment, but it's a pretty decent tool in the style of old-school Microsoft Project. The files are also pretty git-friendly. I'd actually been thinking of moving back to it, since it's lower friction to edit than Instagantt, and also lets one assign multiple resources to a task.)

For those using Arch linux, this seems to be the AUR package for Planner: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/elementary-planner/

Github repo: https://github.com/alainm23/planner

> For Todoist users, the Board View was introduced in this new update, a more visual way to organize your Planner projects.

For someone not familiar with Planner, this sentence was really confusing for me, "for users of other service, there's a feature in this service", and it's not clear what the connection is.

GNOME has an app called Planner:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner

Planner is packaged in many distros, e.g.:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/planner/

- https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/planner

- https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/planner

There's this unspoken rule of open-source project naming etiquette where you try to not use names used by projects once they reach certain level of popularity.

There's something weird these days about how there are a lot of cool apps in elementary and rearely deb/ubuntu packages :/. Is that a writing on the wall ? I usually want to test them out but the vala/meson/ninja compilation steps often gets in my way.

Haven't used this personally, and it definitely seems to have taken lots of inspiration from Todoist, Things 3, et al., but it's really great to see this sort of well-designed app that looks like a lot of thought went into the UX even for non-advanced users for linux!

Does the underlying datastructure allow for permissioned collaboration with others?

Can I share just a project with a co-worker without sharing the entire task database?

Looks great! Could I use this (and todoist) to aggregate tasks from various sources, such as different Gitlab instances, GitHub, etc?

Is there a chance to of getting synchronization via something non-proprietary? It looks great, but still lacks a mobile option.

Good looking GUI, too bad it requires "evolution-data-server" to build and run.

Does Planner support any basic form of time tracking?

It's so sad to see cool Linux tools without a Windows version:(

I get why; I'm just sad - especially because some Linux users are annoyed by "Windows only" tools and then they use linux only features, that never can't be ported to other operating systems as well(not because lack of people, but incompatibility).

Planner is one of those amazing niche tools that doesn't exist for Windows. It looks amazing - congrats!