While I really like the simple and sleek google calendar web GUI and functionalities, I’m more and more concerned about my data and privacy. Even if I have nothing to hide, I don’t agree anymore to sell freely and consciously my data to any GAFAM.
Has anyone any alternative to google calendar?
Free and if possible, open source? It can have some discret sponsors/ads. As long as it isn’t to intrusive.
Todoist integration
Sync between devices
GUI doesn’t have to be PERFECT, but a bare minimum for my candy eyes !
Can be API, Web… doesn’t matter as long as it syncs between devices (android, mac, windows, linux)
I already searched through the web, but couldn’t find any conclusive alternative, maybe someone knows some hidden gem :)
Thank you !
EDIT:
The solution and compromise: nextcloud. It took me some times (2days) to set it up correctly and make it work as intended.
Android calendar sync with DAVx5
Calendar notification on android’s native calendar app
2way sync between Android calendar and nextcloud calendar
push notification on nextcloud web browser
A few things too keep in mind:
1 — if you build your nextcloud instance with docker-compose:
cron jobs don’t work out of the box and documentation is not straightforward
2 — Android permissions to sync with your calendar
DAVx5 mentions how to allow syncing seemingly
It’s different for every android phone
Battery power mode
Work in the background
…
3 — It won’t work with todoist
Todoist is proprietary and won’t work with DAVx5 and next cloud
alternative: jtx board! (build by the same devs as DAVx5 seems to work similarly)
Conclusion:
Nextcloud isn’t as good as the cloud sync provided by google/todoist and every other GAFAM cloud instance. It has his quirks and need some attention to make it work as intended. It take some times, reading and tinkering but those are compromises I’m willing to take :)
I found nextcloud easier to set up than many other services, plus it comes with cloud file storage and other goodies as a bonus.
It is even easy on such obscure platforms as NetBSD in an nvmm-backed qemu virtual machine runnning on a NetBSD host.
(EDIT: well, it wasn’t really trivial, the database (PostgreSQL in my case) setup and connection is not necessarily obvious to someone who hasn’t done it before, but the fact that it works without real complications on very diverse platforms is a testament to its clean code.)
If you’re not confident in database management, there is always the Snap version. I know Snap gets a lot of hate, and you do lose some ability to tinker with Nextcloud configuration, but its been pretty solid for me.
One I’ve been using fo a while, less for calendar though it has that but tasks/shopping/recipies and others is home chart. Dev is super responsive and open to feedback too. Option to self host, webapp compatible and has a single time lifetime purchase option which is great since I hate maintaining subscriptions.
Thank you :) This was the best of the 2 worlds. I was a bit reluctant because of the name (nextcloud) but after 2 days of hard searching, docker tinkering, cronjobbing and a few lost hairs It fits quite good. Except it doesn’t work with todoist but jtx board seems promising and is not proprietary, so maybe I will make the switch :).
I edited my post accordingly, for other users stumbling on the post (also making lemmy more active 🌤 )
CalDav server (Baikal or anything similar, even Synology DSM has an app for it if you have a NAS), plus Davx5 if you’re on Android, plus Simple Calendar.
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Ok, so this is a ”how many colors of the rainbow there are”
If you go balls to the wall, all out retardation: Nextcloud, the CalDAV is basically just a bonus, I’ve replaced google.com at home with Nextcloud
Some middle ground: SoGo, sogo.nu
If you just want to solve this specific problem: Radicale, https://radicale.org and Baikal, https://sabre.io/baikal/
I found nextcloud easier to set up than many other services, plus it comes with cloud file storage and other goodies as a bonus.
It is even easy on such obscure platforms as NetBSD in an nvmm-backed qemu virtual machine runnning on a NetBSD host.
(EDIT: well, it wasn’t really trivial, the database (PostgreSQL in my case) setup and connection is not necessarily obvious to someone who hasn’t done it before, but the fact that it works without real complications on very diverse platforms is a testament to its clean code.)
If you’re not confident in database management, there is always the Snap version. I know Snap gets a lot of hate, and you do lose some ability to tinker with Nextcloud configuration, but its been pretty solid for me.
One I’ve been using fo a while, less for calendar though it has that but tasks/shopping/recipies and others is home chart. Dev is super responsive and open to feedback too. Option to self host, webapp compatible and has a single time lifetime purchase option which is great since I hate maintaining subscriptions.
https://homechart.app/
Just going to +1 for Nextcloud, it’s literally the hub of my whole life including PC and CalyxOS phone syncs.
Thank you :) This was the best of the 2 worlds. I was a bit reluctant because of the name (nextcloud) but after 2 days of hard searching, docker tinkering, cronjobbing and a few lost hairs It fits quite good. Except it doesn’t work with todoist but jtx board seems promising and is not proprietary, so maybe I will make the switch :).
I edited my post accordingly, for other users stumbling on the post (also making lemmy more active 🌤 )
CalDav server (Baikal or anything similar, even Synology DSM has an app for it if you have a NAS), plus Davx5 if you’re on Android, plus Simple Calendar.