PM Tools for Business

PM Tools for Business

September 3, 2025

Intro: As a PM in any project, you will need to:

  1. Take good notes
  2. Create proper PPTs and diagrams
  3. Be aware of the PRD/BRD/FRD
  4. How much time and focus matter
  5. Be good with your Architect and BA

Note Taking Apps

Call it note taking.

Call it knowledge management.

The thing is that you needs this in the information era.

AppFlowy

AGPL-3.0 license | AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations.

Built with Flutter and Rust.

Install appflowy is per: https://docs.appflowy.io/docs/appflowy/install-appflowy/installation-methods/installing-with-docker

AppFlowy, an open source project mgmt, documentation, and note-taking app for extreme productivity

Communication

F/OSS to Communicate with the Team.

Creating Presentations (PPTs)

You can also create PDFs with stirling-pdf

Creating Diagrams

  1. ExcaliDraw
  1. DrawIO

F/OSS to Manage Projects

A project is also a lot about Time Management.

These tools help to get an overview of where are we for your daily:

  1. OpenProject
  2. LeanTime
  3. TimeLite

https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Docker/blob/main/Business/PM/leantime_docker-compose.yaml

F/OSS Alternatives to Excel

Build AI-native spreadsheets. Univer is a full-stack framework for creating and editing spreadsheets on both web and server.

With Univer MCP, Univer Spreadsheets is driven directly through natural language.

Apache v2 | Univer is an open-source alternative to Google Sheets, Slides, and Docs

Airtable alternatives…


FAQ

How to Make a CV with Open Software

Already tired?

Looking for a job change because the market is bullish?

  1. Open Resume
  2. Reactive Resume
  3. OverLeaf - Latex driven CV as a Code, as commented here

How to BackUp My Projects

  1. Syncthing, together with https://github.com/nware-lab/sm2

Syncthing Multi Server Monitor aka smsm aka sm²

  1. Just use NextCloud, bro.

FAQ

Other F/OSS

Free open source kanban board for workgroups.

Trello like kanban board. Based on Restya platform.

An open source ticket management & help desk solution. A zendesk/freshdesk alternative - Elevate Your Customer Support