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What I'd love is a robust, modern, relatively easy-to-configure, focused DAV server— specifically one that includes calendaring and notes. Everything out there

What I'd love is a robust, modern, relatively easy-to-configure, focused DAV server— specifically one that includes calendaring and notes. Everything out there is either incomplete, fussy as all getout to set up, dogmatically simple and therefore requires external mitigation, only supports one or two clients, and/or some janky PHP amalgam. What I'd REALLY love is to be able to run all of my own services in place of iCloud. I realize that this stuff isn't free to develop and I'd happily pay for it. They've been moving further away from standard formats and protocols with no way for others to integrate in the same way and I'm curious if there are any legal anticompetitive actions on the table should they continue to do so. Before anybody says it— I have business needs that favor using MacOS directly on Apple Hardware and as a result, iOS is a good choice. Moving from Apple would regularly cause me more grief than these things do. No, you don't know my use case better than me and I have exhaustively explored all alternatives both ancient and modern.

NicoJuicy 5y ago
We can't know, because you're not saying the use-case
the_pwner224 5y ago
I've found that Radicale works very well for DAV calendar, tasks, address book. I combine it with Syncthing for files, and use Obsidian.md as the note-taking application (using the synced folder for storing the notes folder). Of course when you have a synced folder you can use whatever note-taking application/system you want. I'm not sure if that will work on iOS since iOS doesn't really have a filesystem - there are apps available on iOS for Syncthing and Obsidian, but I don't know if Obsidian will be able to access the Syncthing synced folder. But it works great for me on Linux PCs + Android. Much better than Nextcloud which is too complex and is a pain to administer over time. Syncthing is super simple to set up does file sync very well, much better than Nextcloud does. Radicale is also easy to set up and just works.
- chefandy 5y ago
  iOS only needs to be a client and it has standard CalDAV/CardDAV clients built into the OS. I've used Radicale— it works OK for very basic functionality, but doing something as simple as making a shared calendar involves creating one in the GUI, logging into the server and sym linking them between user directories. The nice thing about the groupware functionality in Apple Server is that it used all of these standard protocols so it was entirely interoperable with other devices AND it had a nice smooth administration experience. At the moment, I just pay $15/mo for Cloudron which handles email, is decently smooth for administration though a little more disjointed between the apps than I'd prefer, and can "one click" deploy Radicale, NextCloud, Sogo, et. al. I used to administer servers but it's not what I do now and I have no interested in sinking non-work time into work-like tasks.

NicoJuicy 5y ago

We can't know, because you're not saying the use-case

the_pwner224 5y ago

I've found that Radicale works very well for DAV calendar, tasks, address book. I combine it with Syncthing for files, and use Obsidian.md as the note-taking application (using the synced folder for storing the notes folder). Of course when you have a synced folder you can use whatever note-taking application/system you want. I'm not sure if that will work on iOS since iOS doesn't really have a filesystem - there are apps available on iOS for Syncthing and Obsidian, but I don't know if Obsidian will be able to access the Syncthing synced folder. But it works great for me on Linux PCs + Android. Much better than Nextcloud which is too complex and is a pain to administer over time. Syncthing is super simple to set up does file sync very well, much better than Nextcloud does. Radicale is also easy to set up and just works.

chefandy 5y ago
iOS only needs to be a client and it has standard CalDAV/CardDAV clients built into the OS. I've used Radicale— it works OK for very basic functionality, but doing something as simple as making a shared calendar involves creating one in the GUI, logging into the server and sym linking them between user directories. The nice thing about the groupware functionality in Apple Server is that it used all of these standard protocols so it was entirely interoperable with other devices AND it had a nice smooth administration experience. At the moment, I just pay $15/mo for Cloudron which handles email, is decently smooth for administration though a little more disjointed between the apps than I'd prefer, and can "one click" deploy Radicale, NextCloud, Sogo, et. al. I used to administer servers but it's not what I do now and I have no interested in sinking non-work time into work-like tasks.