I had to change my name and hairstyle
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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- Proton Mail, (paid) I switched 7 years ago and it's great, I've never looked back. I don't use the attached services like calendar and contacts because it's a little bit too walled-off for the integrations I need, but I do use ProtonVPN and Drive.
- Thunderbird (free) on desktop, to access my IMAP or exchange email addresses (work etc) along with Proton Bridge so I never touch the Proton web app. On Android, I use Thunderbird for the IMAP addresses plus the Proton app, which isn't ideal but not sure what the alternative could be.
Calendar and contacts
- Nextcloud (free) installed on the basic shared hosting for my personal website manages all my contacts
- Etesync (free) is currently syncing my calendars, but I'm planning to swap this soon to the Nextcloud instance just to simplify things.
Notes / Resource management
- Anytype (free) is incredible and I now run my life off of it. Took months to really get the hang of it but it's worth the effort.
Cloud storage
- Proton Drive (paid) is great, I use it for all my work applications, sending to clients etc and sync my most important files, but only have 500gb storage so
- Synology Drive (free) installed on the NAS I use for backups covers all my personal uses, including photo backups.
Browser
- Firefox (of course), with uBlock Origin (of course)
Search
- DuckDuckGo (free), I ran Kagi for a while but the company seems shady and the price is extremely high for what you get
Passwords
- 1Password (paid), migrated after the LastPass incident and before ProtonPass existed. It would make sense to save the money and switch to Proton but tbh 1Password has been great and I wouldn't risk the faff.
Documents
- Honestly I don't have a lot of need for Google Docs replacements but when I do need to work on docs I'll use LibreOffice. If it needs to be shared I'd probably do a public share on Anytype, or use Proton Docs. More likely, someone else will have invited me to a Google doc and I'll have to sign in to use it.
Audio
- PocketCasts (paid) is a great service. I also use Spotify (sorry, all my friends use it)
RSS
- FreshRSS also set up on my web hosting so I get all my news/articles/substacks etc through ReadYou and Fluent Reader.
Google products I still use
- Maps
- YouTube (with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock on both desktop and android), I just sadly can't let go of my carefully crafted algorithm oops
Search: Kagi (paid)
Email and calendar: Tuta (paid)
Synced storage (like Dropbox): Synology Drive (free, used with my Synology NAS)
Photos: Synology Photos (free, used with NAS)
Passwords: Bitwarden (paid)
Music subscription: Tidal
Music purchases: Qobuz and Bandcamp
No complaints about any of these. Quite happy having de-googled and de-appled.