Hi everybody !
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 :)
Second +1 for Nextcloud.
It’s a CalDAV server and web client, you can use DavX5 on Android to sync with your mobile device. Any CalDAV client on desktop can connect natively.
Nextcloud also has an app called “Tasks” which can likely replace Todoist. DavX5 can also sync tasks from Nextcloud and OpenTasks is an Android app which will let you work with them and handle notifications.
Thank you for your insight :) I tried OpenTasks, but yeah… didn’t liked it ! But DAVx5 comes with jtx board who seems to fit better to my workflow and also syncs with nextcloud and Android ! Thank you.
I did not know that. lol. Thanks for your insight, and I’m going to check that out. That may be new, and I’ve been using OpenTasks for years and have just settled.
Don’t worry, if you read the following on f-droid
Use DAVx5 to synchronize your entries with the CalDAV-server of your choice (coming soon)!Its already working and syncs with your nextcloud calendar and task app.It won’t show up in the native Android calendar and I don’t know about third party’s. Have fun !
Ah, gotcha. I haven’t looked at the docs/release notes for DAVx5 in years. It’s just been a standard app I load on my phone to sync my contacts/calendar/tasks. The last time I looked at the docs for it, it was still called DAVDroid.