Productivity

Self-Hosting Monica CRM: Personal Relationship Manager with Docker You’ve forgotten your partner’s coworker’s name for the third time. Your friend mentioned their kid’s allergy last month and you can’t remember which one. Your uncle told you about his surgery and you didn’t follow up. Sound familiar? Monica is an open-source personal CRM (Customer Relationship Management — except the “customers” are the people you actually care about). It gives you a structured place to record details about people in your life: what you talked about, their birthdays, their kids’ names, food preferences, important life events, and the things that make relationships feel intentional rather than accidental. ...

Task management apps want your data and your wallet. Todoist locks features behind premium tiers. TickTick has a free limit. Notion is great until you realize your entire workflow lives on someone else’s server. Vikunja is a self-hosted, open source task manager that handles projects, kanban boards, Gantt charts, and CalDAV sync — all running on your own hardware. What Vikunja Does Projects and tasks — organize with subtasks, priorities, labels, and due dates Kanban boards — drag-and-drop card view like Trello Gantt charts — timeline view for project planning CalDAV integration — sync tasks to any calendar app (Thunderbird, DAVx⁵, Apple Reminders) Reminders — email and in-app notifications Team collaboration — share projects with other users, assign tasks Attachments and comments — attach files, leave notes on tasks API and webhooks — automate everything Todoist import — migrate your existing tasks directly Prerequisites A Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed A domain name (optional but recommended for HTTPS) 512MB RAM minimum — Vikunja is lightweight Docker Setup Create a directory for Vikunja: ...

If you’ve ever used Pocket or Instapaper to save articles for later, you know the value of a good read-it-later service. But those services track your reading habits, inject ads, and can shut down features at any time. Wallabag gives you the same experience — save articles with one click, read them distraction-free, sync across devices — entirely on your own server. In this guide, we’ll set up Wallabag with Docker, configure it with PostgreSQL for reliable storage, and connect browser extensions and mobile apps for a seamless reading workflow. ...