I’ve been following along here. Lots of good ones. I can’t really add anything that isn’t already mentioned.
Except I want to +1 on Obsidian. I didn’t like it in the past but recently they’ve made the bases core plugin and the tasknotes plugin. You can do notes, tasks, calendar, time blocking, journal, day planner, kanaban, map of content, inline links, databases, tags, habit tracker. I think there’a gantt chart in there somewhere too.
By default no subscription fee, no AI clankers, no spyware, no cloud, no cringe. It does have some issues. The notifications for tasks are only system toasts. You could easily miss them. Although you can sync with other mainstream calendars. You could get the Obsidian smarphone app too and sync, for a sub fee, if you want (but still terrible notifications). And it has a serious security issue, that there isn’t any plugin firewall. Plugins that interface with the web can technically access your notes and exfiltrate the data to an external server, cause reasons.
I’m trying to maybe set up a workout tracker in there, but not sure yet. There’s lots of good workout apps that might be better. Cause let’s just pile on the subscription fees.
I got the HomeBank money app for budgeting. Quicken is superior but it’s a subscription fee and they don’t have a dark mode. LOL go home. 2026 and no dark mode. Just give up.
But for budgeting software you actually need to have something to put in there. 