16 of the BEST NextCloud apps to replace Google and Apple services

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00:00 Intro
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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.

[maacpiash]

I'm planning to self-host a NextCloud instance, thanks to all the coverage by TLE. Looking forward to it.

[EnternodeCS]

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

[jesperbllefr]

RSS is more relevant then ever, all the cool kids are (still) doing it

[HeroRareheart]

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.

[donpeer]

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!

[Sankaritarina]

great video 👍🏾 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.

[mrsharps]

I still don’t 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.

[toddratson]

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.

[truthdoesnotexist]

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

[ArniesTech]

Great topic. I really want to cover workflow and productivity on Linux 💪🙏

[mrsharps]

THANK YOU! It seems like every video i see about next cloud covers installation snd maybe what’s in the next release. It’s great to see how people are using it!

[thomdieterich]

Another well done video. This was exactly the video I needed to push me to trying a deploy of NextCloud on my Nomad cluster.

[kentjensen]

I love your Linux videos. Do you have an intrduction to nextcloud video, with recommendations for hosts and maybe an overview or tutorial?

[kertrix_]

Thanks for these apps! I'll add them right now!
Great video, as always!

[FollowTheLamb]

How is the security of using the password manager for nextcloud compared to Bitwarden?

[Raspikabekk]

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!!!

[AlanKlughammer]

instead of Photos, I use the new Memories app. I find it organizes a bit better, and is easier to use.

[HFRKS]

What are your server specs to host your nextcloud?

[My-noname]

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.

[tarifulazam]

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.