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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • There’s already an international open source and federated standard for Journals, Tasks and Notes. It’s called iCalendar-standard (RFC-5545) . See the VToDo component, relevant for your Google Keep alternative.

    Also check out JTX Board

    Pros:

    • FOSS
    • Federated
    • List, Grid, Kanban views
    • Reminders
    • Alarms
    • Location
    • More

    Cons:

    • Markdown only, no WYSIWYG.

    Syncing:

    • WebDav server (many FOSS and selfhostable servers available). For mobile client there’s DavX.
    • WebDav Encrypted sync server Etesync which is FOSS and selfhostable.

    These standards and protocols are compatible with almost every software remotely related, including Thunderbird, KDE’s Kontact, and many more. And the feature set matches or even exceeds Google Keep’s capabilities.

    My humble opinion is that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, just build on top of what is already widely used, tested, documented, FOSS, privacy respecting, standards compliant, audited.