Moving from a condo in the city to a single family in the burbs with a one year old during the pandemic has been both overwhelming and humbling. For the last 2.5 years while failing to optimize time and money across different projects, I have missed a system that has the following features:
- Task based workflow
- Calendar/Reminder
- Contact management
- price/quote management
- Expense tracking
- notes/wiki for howto, planning, research
- Document management<p>I think having offline and remote/mobile access is invaluable as you are rarely in front of a terminal while taking care of such projects. Self-hosted would be ideal, primarily because of sensitive information, but also because I’m not sure how the needs evolve over period of time - for example, sometimes you have high setup cost (complexity/cost) but then with the systems in place, the effort needed reduces considerably.<p>So far, I have been doing it with notion, but the drawbacks are obvious. I was thinking of looking into open source erp systems, but felt like I am chasing tool vs having a disciplined approach - so wanted to see what(spreadsheet, markdown on git, notion etc.) are you using to track and ship long/short term projects at home?