Axel Knauf<p>I've been looking for a light-weight web-based task or project management solution for a while now. As one can imagine, there are plenty of available options, and I finally settled with Vikunja for a proper test-drive on my VPS.</p><p><a href="https://vikunja.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vikunja.io/</a></p><p>Installation was straight-forward using the provided compose file setup to run with rootless podman on my Debian server:</p><p><a href="https://vikunja.io/docs/installing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vikunja.io/docs/installing/</a></p><p>One awkward twist: I needed to enable open registrations in order to set up my initial user for a few minutes, quickly disabling this setting again. I certainly do not want to run this as open service to the world - just as a single-user instance for myself.</p><p>Initial impressions of what I really like:</p><ul><li>hassle-free installation, using standard formats like OCI containers</li><li>mobile-friendly response web UI that can easily be installed as PWA</li><li>keyboard shortcuts for the web UI for all common interactions</li><li>extensive documentation, including a config settings reference</li><li>a friendly llama as icon :D</li></ul><p>If you're interested in task / todo management tools for self-hosting, check out this list that I used as inspiration on top of some web research:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#task-management--to-do-lists" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#task-management--to-do-lists</a></p><p>A strong contender for me was <a href="https://taskwarrior.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">TaskWarrior</a> since I had been using it in the past, and I do like the productive CLI interface with a task-server component for synchronisation. While there are <a href="https://taskwarrior.org/tools/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">plenty of tools and integrations</a>, I was never satisfied with the available web options, though.</p><p>What tools are you using for task management?</p><p><a href="https://fedi.4x31.dev/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.4x31.dev/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.4x31.dev/tags/vikunja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vikunja</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.4x31.dev/tags/tasks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tasks</span></a></p>