planify VS awesome-mac

Not sure where you're looking but source code is here (not sure why they don't link to it?) and last update was about a year ago and there are recent commits.

https://github.com/alainm23/planner

I just discovered this and really like it, it's a huge improvement over GNOME Todo. My only complaint is that it seems to choke on a large number of (completed) tasks. Though that might be more of an issue with Nextcloud not clearing out completed tasks and a lot of caldav apps have this problem.

Also, Things sells for 45 USD? There are so many competitors in this space it's wild. Todoist, Endeavour, Planner, all the way to Asana.

Such time-based information/TODOs are much better stored in a task manager (such as https://useplanner.com/), with an automated notification reminder that alerts you on the date, so that you don't have to think about it until it reminds you.

No for the not so good news: Both MS To Do and OneNote are not available officially. You can use the web versions or use unofficial apps such as Kuro. But those are based on the web versions as well. Alternatively there are beautiful apps such as Planer which sync with other platforms (such as ios) via Todoist. The same is true for note taking. The Linux native solution here is Simple Note.

I've been using Planner for last few months. It had recurring task support earlier, but was probably removed sometime: https://github.com/alainm23/planner/issues/860

A large number of extremely talented engineers might beg to differ. Everything you listed as an issue has a solution. Like any operating system, you have to spend the time to learn the intricacies of how it works and to customize it to your liking. For me, must haves are Alfred to replace spotlight, my dotfiles which change a ton of defaults in various apps like finder, the dock, etc, setup key repeat, iterm2 colors and profile, etc. divvy and magnet for window management. Caffeine to prevent sleep. Stats open source menu monitors to replace istatmenus

I’m sure there are newer equivalents to what I’ve listed. I’ve been using those programs for years.

Some jumping off points

https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/cask-install/30d/

Have a look at these lists for more of the things you are looking for: https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

I guess the awesome Mac list is a solid place to start generally speaking, since there are a lot of apps of all kinds of use cases in there. Personally, I especially love - Raycast (replacement for spotlight, check out Alfred as well) - Bartender (to tidy up the menu bar) - AltTab (gives you a Windows like app switcher) - Rectangle (windows like window management) - purepaste (let’s you paste text without formatting)

I always reference this great repo: https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac