Thanks for all of the wonderful replies! It looks like I'll eventually set up some of these on my own server.
And I did mean Google Tasks. In Swedish it's Google Lists. I like that you can associate dates with the tasks so that they show up in your calendar as incomplete or completed. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Tom, > >> I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, >> web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and >> Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to. > > Great plan! I just finished doing the same, more or less. :) > And sorry in advance for the linkdump, just trying to help. > > >> Email is probably the most important as my whole life is in there. >> Proprietary Google searches lead me to >> http://www.gnumail.org >> http://www.runbox.com >> http://www.fastmail.fm >> These don't seem any cheaper than running a mail server on a virtual >> private server, which would be more flexible. I don't think that would >> be too annoying either. Thoughts on that? > > I haven’t heard of those at all. At the moment, I have a domain at > https://gandi.net/ > They use Roundcube as frontend, which is awesome but unfortunately has no > own hosting service: http://roundcube.net/ > I am going to move over to my account at http://tuxfamily.org but the > domain is still at Gandi. > > So, what you want is probably a mail account at https://riseup.net/ (big > thanks to Parker for recommending them to me again!). But I don’t know > about their exact approval criteria. The sole reason I am not using them > is that they only have SquirrelMail and IMP which I am both a bit sick of. > :) > > By all means let me know how it works out if you’re going for them. > > >> There are a bunch of desktop calendar applications, and I'm sure some >> of them are more awesome than Google Calendar. How does one sync them >> across computers and version/backup them? My inclination is to use git >> on a plain text calendar file if I'm not satisfied by the more >> conventional approaches. > > If you plan on using git, you might want to look at > http://sparkleshare.org/ – it is basically a frontend for git in the style > of Dropbox (made by an awesome GNOME guy). You can sync to > http://gitorious.org as well as GitHub and your own server. > > For public events, you can do as I do and use http://grical.org/ > They have groups, I made one for me and add any event I plan to go to there. > > >> I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but >> it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. It may be >> less useful once I graduate in May as I'm likely not to have >> assignments due every day, but some more advanced equivalent would be >> wonderful. Does anyone know of an equivalent for this? > > I have not heard of Google Lists, do you mean Google Tasks (in Gmail)? > Currently, I manage any personal events or todos by just putting them in > an EtherPad. I have an account at http://titanpad.com/ , an awesome > EtherPad instance hosted by 3 Debian guys. You can lock the document up > with a password so everything’s cool. > > >> I don't use Google Docs much except for short-term collaboration with >> mortals, and I don't mind using it that for situations like that. For >> other situations, git and ssh is better. And I can use Gobby for >> brainwriting. > > For any kind of text collaboration, EtherPad is way superior to Google > Docs (the document part). It does not need login, has a dead-simple and > beautiful interface, integrated chat, nice colors to see who wrote what > and can export to free formats. So here as well, http://titanpad.com/ is > the way to go. > > > If you need anymore freedom; I currently build a directory of free and > open web services at http://libreprojects.net/ > > Let me know how it goes and feel free to mail me when you have any > problems. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
