{"id":13491,"date":"2025-06-02T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=13491"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:04:00","slug":"doist-a-freemium-that-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/06\/02\/doist-a-freemium-that-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Doist a freemium that gives back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I hit a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/tasks\/issues\/2695\">nasty&#8221; bug<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nextcloud.com\/apps\/tasks\">NextCloud Tasks<\/a> which I have been using extensively. Luckily it&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; in the frontend as accessing the same tasks using a CalDav client such a DavX5 and JtxBoard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since today we are all using web applications I found an alternative, finding <a href=\"https:\/\/doist.com\">https:\/\/doist.com<\/a> which is a &#8220;freemium&#8221; service. While I tend to prefer free-as-in-freedom software I do acknoledge that they are way better than the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Tech\">GAFAM<\/a>. In fact<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Part of being a remote company means being responsible citizens of the world. Every year we donate up to 2% of our revenue growth to support the vital work of internationally-minded organizations like:<\/p>\n<cite>From <a href=\"https:\/\/doist.com\/about-us#giving-back-section\">https:\/\/doist.com\/about-us#giving-back-section<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>They either stopped updating it in 2022 or they stopped donating. I just hope it&#8217;s the former<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Recently I hit a &#8220;nasty&#8221; bug in NextCloud Tasks which I have been using extensively. Luckily it&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; in the frontend as accessing the same tasks using a CalDav client such a DavX5 and JtxBoard. Since today we are all using web applications I found an alternative, finding https:\/\/doist.com which is a &#8220;freemium&#8221; service. 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