Manage household chores with Donetick

Tutorial – Donetick

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Are you struggling to keep track of all your household chores? With its intuitive interface and advanced features, Donetick ensures you won't forget them.

Without a tool to help you remember your household chores and other tasks, you're bound to forget something occasionally. Some tasks need to be performed weekly, monthly, or just once a year. A program that tracks your tasks and sends reminders is invaluable. Countless solutions exist for this purpose. If you're looking for one you can run on your own server with an intuitive web interface, Donetick [1] is an appealing option.

Beneath its attractive interface, which is also easy to use on mobile devices, lie advanced features including recurring tasks, priorities, user groups, and an API for integration with other software. In this article, I'll install Donetick on a Debian 13 ("Trixie") server with Docker Compose and explore the capabilities of this handy tool to bring order to your household.

Requirements

If you haven't installed the container runtime Docker and the associated tool Docker Compose yet, do this with the following command:

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