DAV Stuff
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I've been trying to use more webdav instead of just using commercial
tools (especially Google's) mindlessly.


I'm all for autonomy and own your data but letting go of things like a
Gmail account I've used for more than 10 years is hard.

I have to admit I'm really attached to my smartphone so I need data
syncing so all the things I do in my computers is available
there.

Another challenge is my work computer. It's the machine I use the most
for the last 3 years and it's a Windows Dell computer with corporate
restrictions (there are even websites I cannot visit, no matter where
I connect).

This week I found out that I could take my contacts and calendar out
of Google's hands and synced, all thanks to webdav, carddav and
caldav. First I was playing around with Org Mode for task
management. I discovered I could use plain text to organize my day and
be functional, get reminders, etc. A good ally I got was the Nextcloud
instance of the SDF. Nextcloud is famous for its webdav support and it
also supports caldav and carddav. All these "DAV" things are protocols
meant for synchronization through HTTP and they allow i.e. syncing
your files between your PC and the instance of Nextcloud.