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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

Wekan / Feature Request

Allowing Zapier to build zaps to Wekan?

Allowing Zapier to build zaps to Wekan?

Wekan / Feature Request · October 7, 2020 at 8:43pm

Evening everybody,

First of all, forgive me, I am not a coder, at best I am an enthusiastic amateur!

I am in the process of building a non-for-profit, community-led company that will travel the world trying to help areas find and leverage their strengths and build out of poverty. I have been a committed user of FOSS for the last 10 years and want to make FOSS the centre of my business.

However, I am a terrible planner! So I have started investigating using Evernote and Trello. I love Evernote and do have a subscription with them. However, I haven't used Trello properly yet. I was about to pay for a business account tonight, but randomly found Wekan in the Ubuntu store and did some digging and realised it's exactly what I'm looking for.

However, whilst I haven't used Trello properly yet, what I have done is set up a zap in Zapier that triggers when I created a note in Evernote with a specific tag. When Zapier sees that note tag, it goes to Trello and creates a card in my 'Inbox' list in my default board. That means Evernote is my one-stop-shop for the start of my process and means that I don't have to create to-dos twice.

Now, as I say, I'm not a coder, but I can't help thinking that it would be quite straightforward to set up a macro in Zapier that would allow the same functionality I've got with Trello, where an Evernote tag will trigger Zapier to create a new card in my default Wekan board. Having that interoperability between Evernote and Wekan would be essential for me, otherwise I need to stick with Trello.

Is this something that could be looked into please? I can see you have a system of 'bounty' contributions for helping to move the project forward, how exactly does that work?

I hope that this is something that can be achieved, I'd really like to make Wekan my PM system of choice.

Also, if anyone knows of a FOSS version of Evernote that works across platforms and allows me to email items and articles to it, please let me know.

Kind regards, Stu

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October 9, 2020 at 4:10pm

There are some similar rules like in Zapier or Trello Butler, although not all Rules are implemented yet

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    For Open Source Evernote like client, there is NixNote2 http://www.nixnote.org/

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      Although that is desktop client

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        Anyway, I would recommend you download all your data from all propietary services, like Trello, Zapier, Google Takeout, Facebook backup, etc etc, and if possible, burn all those data to DVD or Blueray disks, because hard disks get broken, data gets deleted very easily. It's also very important to have at least daily backups of all Wekan etc data.

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          For example, Google has bots that check if something is suspect, and deletes some Google accounts, some attachments from Google Drive, etc. Microsoft and Apple services are similar.

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            There is no cloud. It is just "someone elses computer"

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              There is Open Source alternatives for about everything. I use Linux, Qubes OS and other open source OSes as my desktop. Those do not send analytics data to Microsoft etc

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                Linux is much faster than Windows. Linux does not have forced reboots.

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                  For example, Wekan Rules have some rules like this (if I remember correctly) : If all checklist items are checked, move card to other list

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                    In progress I have adding possibilitiey to edit rules

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                      etc

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                        From what you wrote, it seems you are trying to do some kind of workflow. For those, if Wekan does not yet have some easy way to do it with some clicking, it's possible to support development of that feature at https://wekan.team/commercial-support/

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                          It seems you are familiar with FOSS. Please also check Copyfree http://copyfree.org/

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                            Probably you are also familiar with FLOSS Weekly https://twit.tv/floss

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                              For more interesting content, you could check https://www.saltstack.com/the-hacks/ that has downloads at https://thehacks.libsyn.com/

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