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Recommendations for FOSS shopping list/checklist apps? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Bookwormy@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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My wife and I have been struggling to find a decent app that we can use to check things off. Primarily, we’d be using it as a grocery list, but ideally I’d love for the same app to be able to handle her long-term “honey do list” projects, and for that one cloud-syncing is a must.

So far we’ve tried Apple Notes (buggy on her phone, but not mine), Google Keep (app won’t stay in the list when phone is locked. Also, privacy. All of a sudden we’re getting ads for stuff we’ve added; no thank you), and AnyList (company keeps all the decent features behind a paywall, so I don’t know if we’d actually like it).

Thanks for your thoughts!

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[–] esaru@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In many cases a Markdown checklist in a shared text file works better than those dynamic task apps. Add new tasks at the bottom of the list as they come up, and cross them off when being done. At the end of a month you start a new checklist with open tasks you consider still relevant and mark them as migrated on the old list.

# Shared Tasks

## May 2023

* [X] done task
* [X] another done task
* [-] deleted task
* [>] migrated task (to next month)

## July 2023

* [ ] migrated task (from last month)
* [ ] new open task
  - comment
  - another comment
  - [ ] nested task A
  - [ ] nested task B
* [X] some done task

This way all you need is Syncthing or a cloud storage with a shared folder.

By migrating you'll get a fresh list every month, and a monthly protocoll of what has been done in the previous months.