The Tasks.org android app (and Astrid, its predecessor) have been my external brain for over a decade now. Reminders which automatically repeat on a configured interval (if necessary) are just extremely useful.
I don’t use it for actual appointments with other people (dentist, game night with friends, etc.), those go in a calendar app1. But one-time reminders and everything that’s even remotely on a timed interval (household chores, paying bills, scheduling car maintenance2, “check if a new book is out in that series I like”), those live in my tasks list.
I then use the Todo Agenda widget to show both calendar appointments and tasks in a single overview.
1: Google Calendar in my case, which is not open source. But something like NextCloud would probably work too.
2: The task is to make an appointment with my car guy. The appointment itself then gets put in my calendar app.
The Tasks.org android app (and Astrid, its predecessor) have been my external brain for over a decade now. Reminders which automatically repeat on a configured interval (if necessary) are just extremely useful.
I don’t use it for actual appointments with other people (dentist, game night with friends, etc.), those go in a calendar app1. But one-time reminders and everything that’s even remotely on a timed interval (household chores, paying bills, scheduling car maintenance2, “check if a new book is out in that series I like”), those live in my tasks list.
I then use the Todo Agenda widget to show both calendar appointments and tasks in a single overview.
1: Google Calendar in my case, which is not open source. But something like NextCloud would probably work too.
2: The task is to make an appointment with my car guy. The appointment itself then gets put in my calendar app.
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