I use CalDav for calendar, contacts and tasks sync and share with the rest of the family.
Server is Nextcloud with WebDav/WebCal/CardDav and DavX5, Etar calendar, native contacts and OpenTasks on android. On Linux WebDav to access and sync Nextcloud files.
How do you use them?
Edit: Added CardDav for contacts.
I’m running a yunohost server with a Nextcloud instance on top. I’ve got nextcloud syncing my files, of course. I use WebDav/WebCal for syncing all of my contacts and calendars across my linux and android devices.
Also Nextcloud, but Seafile for file syncing. The only reason for Nextcloud for me is the calendar webinterface.
Floccus is nice to sync browser bookmarks via Webdav (it also has a Nextcloud addon)
In general there are a lot of note taking apps that allow syncing notes via Webdav. I recently came accross this one which works quite nicely: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.quillpad/
Checkout #joplinapp https://joplinapp.org
I have my groupware PIM server hosted by Kolab Now and mostly use KDE Kontact to access the functionality on PC/laptop and the default apps that come with Blackberry 10 OS on my old smartphone.
Is there a lightweight sever for WebDAV? Or is running NextCloud the best option?
I think Nextcloud is an easy option. Lots og dedicated WebDav servers out there. For CardDav and CalDav (Contacts and calendar) I rembember that Radicale is a good bet: https://radicale.org/v3.html
Radicale is more specific, it is CalDAV/CardDAV and not WebDAV. If that’s what you’re looking for, it’s an amazing option. I’ve used it for years and I really like how it stores calendar events as a folder of ICS files; it makes backup and sync very easy.
For a general, lightweight WebDAV server, you can use the nginx DAV module. Nextcloud (or whatever you use) probably will be reverse proxied by nginx anyway, so if you can just enable a module in nginx, that’s pretty much as lightweight as it can get.
Oh this is great, thanks for this pointer, I’ll look into nginx
I use webdav on my VPS (running Debian / Apache) for syncing my keepass vault, 2FA vault, and specific files (including vehicle/generator maintenance logs) across my devices. Obviously, everything is encrypted up the wazoo (well… maybe not the generator maintenance log) - and backed-up (admittedly to GDrive, but it uses a 12kbit key, so have fun decrypting it).
I am, however, of the opinion that not having any sort of digital footprint can appear very suspicious, so I maintain a completely normal-looking-and-innocent collection of contacts, calendar, tasks in my GMail.
