16 of the BEST NextCloud apps to replace Google and Apple services
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01:25 News: news that you control
03:09 Notes: portable markdown
04:35 Collectives: Knowledge base
05:22 Tasks and Deck: todo list and kanban board
07:18 Passwords: Self hosted password manager
08:18 External Sites: make Nextcloud a full hub
09:00 OnlyOffice: replace Office 365 or Google Docs
10:03 Custom menu: Organize your stuff
10:55 Mastodon Integration
11:32 Contacts + Calendar: powerful and private
12:09 Forms: private surveys
12:59 Photos: your own shareable photo gallery
13:47 Files: powerful, portable cloud storage
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News lets you import an already existing list of feeds, or you can create one. It supports folders, and News can auto discover feeds for you. News lets you export your feed list, navigate using the J and K keys of your keyboard, and you can use another app that plugs into nextcloud, like NewsFlash on GNOME.
Next app is Notes. All my scripts and articles are written in Notes. You just get basic markdown support for titles, bold and italic, and section headers, and it lets you place your notes into categories. It also supports versioning. I use Iotas on GNOME to access and edit these notes.
Nextcloud collectives is also interesting, it's a leaner, faster version of something like Confluence. It lets you create Collectives, lets others collaborate and edit them, and they support more advanced syntax, with images or emojis. You can create templates, pages, subpages, you can view page outlines, or add links from one page to another.
For task management, I use Nextcloud Tasks and Deck. Tasks lets you create multiple lists, and multiple tasks per list, with support for tags, start date, due date, priorities, and even completion percentage or current status. As per Nextcloud Deck, it places tasks in boards, that you can customize with all the columns you want, and it supports the same tags and the same properties for each task as Nextcloud tasks.
Next one is Nextcloud passwords. It's a password manager, self hosted on your nextcloud server, so it's less likely to be affected in a wide data breach. It's end to end encrypted. It has a web interface to browse your passwords, but you'll really want to use the browser extensions for Firefox or any Chrome based browser.
Another small app I use every day is External Sites. It lets you add shortcuts to other websites inside your nextcloud menu, and it will open them in your nextcloud interface.
Nextcloud has a connector to let you plug an office suite directly to your nextcloud server. I went for OnlyOffice, and it lets me create new documents straight from the Nextcloud files app, and edit existing ones from the web interface, on any computer I want.
Custom menu is basically give you complete control over how your menu works.
Mastodon integration lets me add my mastodon feed or mentions onto my Nextcloud dashboard.
All my contacts are hosted on Nextcloud, and so are my calendars. They plug in on the desktop with GNOME's online accounts, and on mobile, well it's just caldav and carddav, any OS can access that.
Nextcloud Forms lets you create surveys easily, with multiple question types, single or multiple answers, long form text fields, and more, and it lets you publish a public link to that survey.
Nextcloud photos progressed a TON in the last version of Nextcloud, and now supports albums, editing your photos, sharing them with other people, and it can even auto recognize faces in your various pictures.
Files has the ability to move, copy, paste, favorite your files and folders, you can share them, you can edit them, and it auto syncs with the nextcloud desktop client, and you can access everything from the nextcloud mobile app for iOS and Android. - VÄda a technologie
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I have setup Nextcloud Server, works great, now I want to setup Collabora Office Server to be used with Nextcloud.
RSS is more relevant then ever, all the cool kids are (still) doing it
Absolutely!
I use RSS for years and I'll never not use it.
Any app for using RSS on Linux/windows, which doesn't require sign in ?
â@@avinashthakur80, I use Thunderbird to read RSS news on Linux and Windows (and Feedly on Android)
I plan to send myself RSS feeds using POCSAG over ham bands
I'm planning to self-host a NextCloud instance, thanks to all the coverage by TLE. Looking forward to it.
Itâs a really nice work environment
Last time I tried it, it was broken. It takes ages to sync changes on the onlyoffice server to the nextcloud server. I tried it back then cos Nick recommended it, and he never addressed that issue. It's probably still broken. It could lead to data loss if you plan on editing the documents outside of the cloud environment (nextcloud deaktop sync app).
It's actually you that got me interested in NextCloud enough to start hosting my own server. I have some good things to say about it, like the fact that collaborative editing for documents is just a built in feature and that it's so extendable, but I also find it buggy in places that I find just completely unacceptable (the photos app - sharing albums using public links is bugged if they try to click on an image, and the workaround is to use Memories instead until the fix hits production)
I've not entirely decided whether I want to stick with NextCloud or not, I've not pulled the trigger in moving everything there quite yet, but I did want to just go out and say that!
P.S. I maintain the VPS myself
Just finished watching - the password manager I didn't know about and is very enticing. The reason I never decided to use one is because despite how inconvenient remembering passwords is (especially since my company makes me change my password EVERY 30 DAYS which is STUPID) I just don't trust anyone else with my passwords, especially with LasPass having TWO breaches.
I personally have Tasks disabled and just use Deck because I find that the two don't play all that nicely with eachother in the way that I prefer. You don't actually need to have them both enabled.
If you use the Photos app, Memories is a really good enhancement to it, I'd recommend it
The Windows version of NextCloud's desktop app supports files that don't actually exist on your system but instead only exist on the cloud that just download themselves when they're needed, but the Linux version doesn't support such functionality, I kind of wish it did
I don't have my own OnlyOffice server, and I don't want to increase my hosting costs just to host that seperately, so I just use Files to sync my files and use my own editors, but I am absolutely open to suggestions to enhance the office functionality that doesn't require a seperate OnlyOffice server (or a separate server at all).
Honest question: How is a VPS truly 'yours' if it's not physically yours?
@@filleswe91 Depends on how you define "yours". Can they cancel service on me? Sure. But nonetheless I can still do pretty much whatever I want with.
I just don't have physical hardware to run NextCloud on - it would be completely pointless and stupid to just run it on my main machine. Plus, one of my uses of it is sharing files with other people, and I'd rather not hand them my IP address.
Pros and cons.
@@filleswe91 A lot of keyboard warriors like to argue in r/selfhosted that selfhosted is just like r/homeserver, its rather annoying to keep seeing that, while the hardware is not yours, the data and software can entirely be yours with disk encryption, even then, you sometimes don't need that overhead depending on how confidential your data is on that server. Having a VPS has a lot more pros than a homeserver, as operating costs and availability are managed by the hosting provider, you only have to pay for your allocation and not worry about providing the same things a datacentre can over a home.
â@@filleswe91Not really but it's more yours than using Google services for examples.
This isn't a productivity app but I use the next Cloud cookbook application and I am slowly converting our grandmother's recipes into a digital form which I can share with family and friends using a client like Nook.
Let me know what you think of it! I was looking at using a recipe manager sorta thing too, but I was more looking at Tandoor or Kitchen Owl because they're more focused on meal planning (vs Nextcloud as an all-purpose thing). If Nextcloud Cookbook is great, though, maybe I'll just use that instead of spinning up another service
@@JustBenNotBenjamin it works great, but having to manually copy the recipies over myseof is rough. I wish I could come up with some way to automate it but I don't know the first thing about coding and programming
@@HeroRareheart I'll have to look into nextcloud cookbook. I've looked at a few recipe apps over the last year, but none of them have been a good fit for one reason or another. It would be create if cookbook fits my needs since it would mean I don't need to maintain an extra server.
Man... This generation z is strange! Get a life!
THANK YOU! It seems like every video i see about next cloud covers installation snd maybe whatâs in the next release. Itâs great to see how people are using it!
I'm building a NextCloud server on my NUC and want to thank you for this video. I've saved it and keep coming back to see what I might add and why I might want to add a particular app. So, the chapter list with time stamps is VERY MUCH appreciated!
Another well done video. This was exactly the video I needed to push me to trying a deploy of NextCloud on my Nomad cluster.
great video đđŸ it really covers the essentials! I set up nextcloud last week as part of my degoogling process and for me personally it replaces google calendar/drive/sheets :) I still have to evaluate how well the nextcloud photoalbums work.
Great topic. I really want to cover workflow and productivity on Linux đȘđ
Thanks for these apps! I'll add them right now!
Great video, as always!
Thanks!
I really like the recipe manager. As the cook of the house I find it really useful with ingredient lists with check boxes to a built in timer.
I don't know how to feel about that. I'm of two minds: I'm an old hack around computers since almost 50 years and yeah, augmenting with tech is far-out man, but on the other hand I'm old-school in the kitchen hue hue hue.
/Boomer out.
â@@likebot. i think it's a personal consideration, between the effort to set it up and the added value.
i personally think there is huge value in having recipes in digital form. whether it should be this form is really the question. the danger is always vendor lock-in, which is normally avoided by using things with open standards. i think it helps to have a personal vision of what you want technology to be, instead of just blindly jumping on every trend
@@xybersurfer There is more consideration than just that, but it leads to a long discussion about on-line services requiring the handing over of personal information needlessly and most people are too far gone in that direction to even consider it any more.
Cloud services and storage have already been too much of a pain for so many when a DNS somewhere shits the bed, a backhoe 'cultivates' a fiber-optic cable or a dummy too educated to operate a kettle mangles a software upgrade at Google.
I can't like this video enough! Thanks for the suggestions! I couldn't find properly stuff in the app store, not sure why. Thanks for your content!!!
I'd love to see you make a video on how to set up a nextcloud server on a extra computer or laptop laying around. The Nextcloud tutorials I've seen so far have no been up to par and they made it seem really complicated
Astonishing content Man đ„đ„đ„
Thank you. I was waiting to start using few apps but was not sure/procastinating, and you covered them well and also few new ones.
If you could please make a video on Pico CMS also that would be great.
Great Video! Already using most of the Apps and will Take a Look at the collectives App.
Are youâre Hosting the nextcloud by yourself or have you rent a virtual machine / nextcloud instance somewhere?
Love this! What site do you use to manage your podcast stats?
Thanks for sharing!
I love your Linux videos. Do you have an intrduction to nextcloud video, with recommendations for hosts and maybe an overview or tutorial?
super helpful vid. thank you
I still donât understand what an only office server is and how/why you would link it to nextCloud. I think it could be a great topic for a video.
This video alone got me interested. When I upgrade my pc, Iâll make my old computer into a server with next cloud and maybe a few other things on it. Some of these apps are pretty dope though.
Thank you!
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I now have my nextcloud instance running on my homeserver!!
Yay!!
Thanks!
Tech question - do you use you cloud machine storage for Nextcloud, or maybe some object storage (like aws s3, or linode object storage)?
Love your videos man! My question is if do you have to pay for onlyoffice if you use it within the NextCloud environment?
Thank you so much for your Nextcloud videos. Looking for more.
The only problem for me are non recurrent tasks.
Yeah, itâs a bit annoying
which nextcloud visual theme are you using? it looks amazing
instead of Photos, I use the new Memories app. I find it organizes a bit better, and is easier to use.
Your instance runs pretty fast. What specs are u running it on? Cpu, ram, database type?
Good video.
As someone who uses nextcloud maybe once a week for file backups, it sadly doesn't make enough sense to use the password extention for everyday use, since my HDD will have to spin back up every hour or so... Nice to see what Nextcloud can do though!
How is the security of using the password manager for nextcloud compared to Bitwarden?
Speaking of EndeavourOS, what do you think of it? It's the only distro I use
Hey Nick, what method are you using to install Nextcloud? Are you installing it from Snaps? Docker? Source? Linode 1-click? Thanks!
The snap works well for me, thatâs what I used!
can you share/export the rss list for who wants to start with some linux news sites without searching one by one?
Can you please make a video on how to use nextcloud with synology NAS? I've never understood nextcloud. Like I want to use my own server. Pretty please?
Hi!
Do you have an idea that can help a company that renovates houses to review expenses more easily... in nextcloud?
Do you recommend any affordable hosted NextCloud service? I like the idea of NextCloud and the option to self-host it. However, most of the time I do not want to deal with the hassle of maintaining. Especially from a data security perspective. Sure, I can host it cheaply on some VPS or Cloud provider. However I then need to manage it properly to keep my data safe. I have to potentially set up backups and replication, which adds complexity and costs.
Hi from France đ!
I have a question : What do you use for your email server ? I tried to use Postfix Dovecot but the setup is kind of not working at all, and I don't want to use any online provided service since I already have my own server behind my TV and I want to self host everything (With nextcloud and a lots of open source stuff)
Email hosting is an extremely frustrating process due to some of the things major providers use for spam filters - getting a small email server to not be auto-filtered into spam by google, microsoft, and other big providers is a pain in the ass, especially if you're using residential internet. I spent a good 6 months on and off in like 2015 or 2016 trying to get self-hosted email working without everything I sent flagged as spam before giving up - and that was from a VPS, not a personal server. I doubt it's become any less frustrating in the years since.
I also don't think there's much value in it - since all email communication involves (at least) two people, keeping your emails private isn't really feasible. If 90% of the emails you need to send are to addresses hosted by Google and Microsoft, you aren't gaining a ton of privacy hosting your own server. And you're never going to convince enough of the people you need to email regularly to use a better provider, just as you'll never convince them to use PGP.
@@masaufuku1735 After some tries and errors, I finally settled for Mailcow with Docker. Everything is working great except for Gmail because of my DNS provider not setting the PTR record correctly, so lot's of bounce back went sending emails to Gmail clients. But yeah, I definitly agree with you that the 2 sides needs to use a private hosting service and not Microsoft / Google service. At least I can do whatever I want with my side of the chain and not be restricted to X gigs of storage / having my own backend or toolbox like alias emails :)
hey quick question about the RSS feed as i'm just getting into it. so basically if I set up all the RSS feeds on my nextcloud app, I can brows that from my PC. but are there android apps that can read the feed that I set up on my cloud? or do I have to export my rss setting and import it in an android rss reader? (that would be extra work every time...)
Hey, Nick, can you make video about solutions for home music/movies streaming server, like Plex etc.?
Can you sync two next cloud servers (one from the digital ocean cloud and one on my old hp elite slim computer)
Hi, sir. I wonder if you have any video teaching how to install NextCloud
Could you please make a video for kodbox? Their DEMO experience is so smooth and amazing
My mind has just blown upâŠ
'Audio player ' is great for personal music collection
Nick, whats the difference between 'nextcloud office' and 'onlyoffice'?
Can you cover how you keep it backed up.
Has Linode been known to scrape user data. Does their TOS outright state such, or imply it?
Brilliant cloud system,,, IF you host it externally.
Tried to install a local cloud and ran into a sea of problems. SSL is a mess if you don't have an official domain and fixed ip and without SSL many things just don't work. Well the self signed option works in config but browsers protests "invalid key". Can't even open a document, just a never ending loading screen. If you try, don't install it with a snap. None of the files for configuring will not be named as in the manual and the directories are named differently and has different location.
Seems like hosted nextcloud is the way to go, for an end user or small business.
Might I recomend docker.
What app is that (Notes IOS) you use with your iPhone? "Cloud Notes"? but I can't find it..
Same here
"Everyday" is an adjective and needs to be followed by a noun, for example: "These are everyday apps." "Every day" written as 2 words, functions as an adverb, for example: "Apps I use every day." Well, you did say you like learning new things. ;)
What are your server specs to host your nextcloud?
Any chance you can share your nextcloud theme? (css? or app?)
Itâs the default one for Nextcloud 24, it has that transparency and dark mode now :)
I liked it. But really I can only use it when it gets recurring tasks.
You have to host onlyoffice? You can't use office libre on a mint instance w no extra domain?
I keep staring at the spare desktop pc on the floor next to me. I keep wanting to make it my nextcloud pc. Damn procrastination
I love nexcloud..
Disallowing iframing does not "suck". It's a basic security feature that you should be glad your finance platforms are employing
In that specific use case, yes, it does suck
That's awesome that it does all that, but I can't figure out how to create a Nextcloud account. Swing and a miss lol
Nextcloud E2E when
Is that abandoned?
I don't get how to set it up, or if it's even supported. Would that be a good next video?
E2E is basically a last line of defense if my server "goes public"
How does Nextcloud recognize faces in pictures? Some solutions I know don't do it locally on your own instance but upload it to some cloud server. I hope Nextcloud does all the processing locally since it would be a no go for me
It does it locally on your server
Hope its good
Just a small question, does the password manager supports TOTP?
@TheLinuxEXP
Damn seems interesting
How well does NextCloud work on Android? Does it have a proper app, or is it dependent on the web UI? I'm repurposing my old laptop as a server for stuff, and I'm thinking of installing NextCloud on it.
Yep
idk if a raspberry can run most of this, but if it could, I'd install them.
does nextcloud also recognize that you're recording your screen, so it can hide your deck pics?
nice. 9:45 is it possible to do collaboration in an office suite with NextCloud?
Yep!
@@TheLinuxEXP that's awesome!
Watching this to procrastinate right now lmao
Hahaha thatâs also a good use of the video đ
Good afternoon, I'm trying to create my NextCloud, but different from the standard, I wanted to use S3 storage as primary storage, with Nextcloud being installed in an instance or in a container, but I still haven't been able to do it... has anyone gone through this or did you have this problem? I know there's a way to use this as external storage, but I wanted to make it the main one and not the external one... thanks.
You'll have to mount the s3 bucket as a local drive/folder, otherwise it won't work the way you intend it to. Depending on your OS you can do that, there's tutorials how to do it. Whether that's any better than using an external storage - no idea. We just have it as external storage without any issues.
đđI am using EndeavorOS, when you said Endeavor I am surprised đ
Wait does NextCloud only sync files? Or can it also behave like normal cloud storage services and store my files without syncing to my desktop?
It behaves like normal cloud, you can just send your files there if you want
What about email in NextCloud? I would love to run my email on own domain and run it on nextcloud. And is it possible to make a cluster of two nextcloud instances -- one on home server and another in some cloud?
I find the mail app a bit limited, but then I have not really dived into using it daily
@Alan as i got it is only the ui, you still need the separate mail server. They recommend mail-in-a-box
The problem with running your email in a custom domain is that it'll probably not work for emailing other people. Gmail, yahoo, etc will certainly block your domain. Only well-known domains will work. Even Proton, which is huge these days, still deals with being blocked. Proton is your best bet for a better, more secure email experience.
More productivity videos are welcome
It would be great if we got a tutorial on how alll of this is installed. Is it even possible to install nextcloud on anything other than Ubuntu?
the nextcloud-aio docker container is great, runs on any distro with docker, and officially supported
Huh, didnât know my phoneâs reminders app would play nice with Nextcloud
Yep!
@@TheLinuxEXP for clarity, Iâm an iOS user now, at fucking last.
6:11 wait, you never played mario kart ? Dang what are you waiting for ? You truly are missing something ! Jokes aside nice video, even though I don't use nextcloud
I did, but never finished Mario Kart 8 :)
All the notes, lists, boards, etc _with_ mobile apps are things Obsidian does, and probably better. Yes, you _technically_ have to pay them to sync your notes, but you can also just use a third party app to sync the files between systems anyway, and it works the same.
Are you on Rumble?
Iâm not!
@@TheLinuxEXP Something to consider. I think creators get 90% of revenue, and it's a 3-click upload.
How does nextcloud makes money đ€
Is it all e2ee?
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Meanwhile - I keep disabling features and apps because they're simply broken or not compatible with mainstream servers. Have no apps for it for mobile or desktop. Or those apps suck so bad... Such huge wasted potential because of boneheaded decisions by Nextcloud and its devs.
It's weird. A lot of this channel's videos the audio is slightly out of sync with the video for me. Other videos are fine... Ok it got better in the middle of the video
RSS is still king, I use it extensively to keep me updated.
Onlyoffice is not anymore free for nextcloud
yes it is
First !
Isn't NextCloud built in PHP? Oh, dear god.đ€ą
Most of the web isâŠ
@@TheLinuxEXP No wonder it sucks so bad.
Sorry but Nextcloud IS not realy usable.
Installed on a cloud server (xeon beast), it's slow, buggy, not working great with ngninx or php8.2 with production settings (i have other services on this server, i can't risk changing entire server config !!), etc.
The documentation is... a mess
And the mobile app is not working, at all !
I don't like too tight shirts ..
Windows user talking about Linux be like Mac talking about windows.
Iâm not a windows user?
Exactly thatâs good
Nextcloud News is giving me Feedzilla all over again.