Kelson Reviews Stuff - Page 51

OpenTasks

★★★★☆

Simple to-do list that works great with a Nextcloud server or local storage on your phone. It’s a bit of a challenge to set up the separate sync app, DAVx⁵, but once that’s done, you don’t really have to touch it unless you add or remove entire lists.

Update: Nextcloud handles recurring tasks now, which was the only thing I missed before. It doesn’t handle them well, and I have to use the website to mark a task as recurring in the first place, but it does handle them. I’ve found that as long as I don’t try to reschedule the current task, the next instance shows up on schedule once I mark this one finished.

Target (app)

★★★★★

Well-designed, runs smoothly, great for ordering items to pick up in-store or for shipping. Cart syncs with the website, so you can do some of your shopping on a bigger screen and some of it on your phone. They really refined curbside pickup during the early part of the pandemic, and it’s able to handle complex situations like picking up different parts of your order at different locations, or picking up two orders at once at the same store.

Clusterduck

★★★★☆

Fun and weird, good for killing time while you’re waiting in line. Eventually it gets monotonous, but it takes a while to get there.

NetNewsWire

★★★★★

Clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for macOS and iOS. You can read articles in the application or open them in the web browser of your choice.

It’s an app, not a service, so it’s not tracking you or inserting ads. That also means there’s no web version. But it can sync over iCloud, and with a variety of web-based newsreaders (including Feedly, Feedbin, InoReader, and FreshRSS), so you can keep track of your subscriptions and read/unread articles across devices. External actions can be set up with any Share extensions installed on the system, and you can choose an alternate web browser to open posts.

Unfortunately it doesn’t sync with Nextcloud News (yet).

I haven’t used the iOS version, but I highly recommend the macOS application!