Weawow - the greatest weather app ever created. No ads 4.9 review in the Play Store, highly recommend it. Termux Tasker Homeassistant ChatGPT Files by Google - actually it is pretty good and allows you to transfer files peer to peer with other devices Anytype - Notion alternative DuckDuckGo - for app tracking and blocking of tracking requests Wireguard ZeroTier One ReadEra TradingView JustETF
Nova launcher (super customizable and clean and you can unlock premium with revanced Manager)
KWGT (allows you to create custom widgets for your phone and has a very good editor so you can jam pack all the info you want into one widget)
Revanced Manager (ad free YouTube with extra features like return dislike and sponsor block and more)
Xmanager (free Spotify premium)
Vlc (best way to play video and audio files)
Fdroid (alternative app store which allows you to basically find a clone of most apps but open source and privacy friendly, plus a ton of other privacy respecting apps)
Aurora store (Google Play store but more customization and less Google tracking stuff attached)
Seal (allows you to download videos and stuff from basically any big site)
I use it for lots of things. I’m not a coder, so I can’t make my own apps from scratch. With Tasker I can make my own apps. I’ve made tons of them.
I still have a Reddit account because there are some core subs that haven’t migrated, but I don’t have to official app installed. I use Tasker to check Reddit and notify me of posts.
My memory is horrible and my schedule is varied every day, so I can’t set alarms for certain times. I made an app where I can say something to my watch and it will remind me depending on my location. For example, I can remind myself to get paper towels on my way home from work. When I leave work, it will send a reminder to my watch.
I use it for call screening. I only let calls from my contacts ring. It sends all other calls to voicemail.
I use it to run scripts in Termux.
I have a routine that will tell me why an app was closed.
I have it POST things to the timeline on my watch with JSON.
I have it reassign functions to my phone’s buttons. I made an app that turns on the flashlight when I shake the phone.
I have it put the battery level of my Bluetooth devices in my notification bar and on my watchface.
I have it gather weather and notify me conditions and severe weather alerts.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. You can do just about anything with it.
I finally gotten to a point where I can find alternatives to the majority of my apps except one which is signal. It was hard to get everyone on there so I can’t really see myself trying to move them to another one
Alarmed (iOS only, unfortunately). It allows you to set nagging reminders with notifications and has great features for snoozing a reminder or setting up routine reminders.
It’s great for ADHD. I basically use it for my schedule I’ll have it remind me the morning of something (or the day before depending on the event), when the reminder comes up, I’ll snooze it to to just before I have to leave.
I had been using apples “reminders”, which just seem to disappear into the ether if you happen to miss the notification.
70 audiobooks, Manga volumes, and more already this year—All free through my library, and all so much easier to find, categorize, tag, and use than something like Audible.
Every book marketplace I’ve used is focused on selling you what they want to sell you, not what you want to get. Libby just lets me keep track of books on my own terms in my own way. It’s a better experience and through my library. It’s great.
I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill
May I recommend Tasks? Not only is it open source and doesn’t collect nearly as much information as TickTick apparently does (according to Play Market), but it’s packed full of features, and also interfaces with a bunch of other apps, like Google Calendar and Google Drive for backups.
Edit: it also is still maintained and updated regularly
I’ve tried to get into Tasks.org a few times, and I really like just about everything about it, but the deal breaker for me is that is seems like it doesn’t have any collaboration features - can anyone tell me otherwise?
My partner and I have been making really good use of Todoist and its (admittedly limited) collaboration features - we have a ‘household’ project, and anything on that list is visible to both of us and can be assigned to a person.
I’d really love to get on a proper FOSS solution, but so far many of them are missing collaboration. Vikunja is really cool and has collaboration, but doesn’t have any widgets atm (important for my scatter-brain). Still on the hunt!
Hmm, it says it can synchorize with your Google account - that’s Google Calendar I think, isn’t Google Calendar collaborative? Or if you’re degoogled - are any of the alternatives collaborative, like EteSync or CalDAV?
Yeah to some extent I suppose a calendar colab would get some of the way there, but I don’t think it gets as far as sharing to-do items between two different users. Maybe there’s a way to set it up to work that way, but I haven’t seen it yet. I’ll look into it!
Hey, sorry, I realise this is like, a month ago… but I thought I would be able to help you out! Tasks are actually just IMAP items, just like emails, meetings and notes. The way to collaborate with an IMAPS Tasks list is to share that list with another user - your underlying provider should have guidance on how to do that. Usually the way it works behind the scenes is that a “guest” account is created for the person you want to share with, unless you’re both using the same platform, in which case mailbox access permissions can simply be added. But you don’t need to worry about the specifics, really - the important takeaway from this is that tasks.org is not responsible for sorting it out, it’s down to your caldav provider - usually, your email provider!
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