Some people keep journal servers where it’s just them in a server alone, could be that

+1 for proton drive

I have the premium plan for and vpn and password manager benifits and use it for college work, game back ups, and saving and sharing unhinged video game clips with friends

I use libre office myself as well with proton drive so I can pull up all my .doc and .docx files on my iPhone (ik very privacy focused /s)

Also the other user mentioned obsidian I like it too. I use more like OneNote kind of notes for my college classes be it typed or hand written (with the Excalidraw plugin)

I set my obsidian save location to proton drive so I can hand write my notes in class then pull them up on my big monitor on my home computer

Sometimes obsidian will cause proton drive to freakout due to obsidians auto save feature (nothing bad it’ll just stop syncing) so I just pause proton, do my thing in obsidian with it saving but not syncing, then just resume the sync

Sometimes they’ll play nice together but other times not so idk¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: formatting

I got it on steam and it’s been a blast

I’m not on Linux myself but this game looks really fun after looking at it glad I saw this :)

I wouldn’t know lol but I’m assuming it does since someone else recommended it

As for now tho I’m gonna check out libreoffice and then have open office as a back up now that more than 1 person is recommending it

Like I said I have all these files on proton drive

Assuming I stick with word and don’t move to libreoffice like a few comments have suggested- in a desktop environment is really the only difference that it’s now going to open in a web browser, I’m just asking incase it doesn’t play nice with proton drive

You said there’s no nesting, is that the equivalent to pages in one note since that is somewhat important to me

Yeah that’s why I’m using proton and slowly switching accounts. Proton drive is pretty much OneDrive minus auto save (oh no however shall I manage) so that’s not too big of a leap

The email and calander haven’t seen much use and with transferring accounts to be with my proton email will be slow

Once that’s done and I’m all settled with proton or if I find another solution I’m going to take a look back here and see what a next step could be for me

Thanks

well then filen might be exactly what I’m look (besides a privacy focused 1:1 clone of OneDrive ofc lol). It’s a little confusing reading it but I’m sure it’ll be super easy once I get working on it

But TSYM for the

That vpn analogy makes sense so I mean is it necessary for home/cell data use and have it running 24/7 or would I only need it when I’m say connecting to some other network

As for filen and proton, with proton I haven’t seen the ability to watch a directory so I’m assuming that’s a filen feature

But I’m assuming it works like: I’ll have a college folder for all my classes and I want it to watch this folder, inside college are 3 more folder and so if I edit “super_cool_essay.doc” on my local desktop it will then save that as a copy to filen then filen would add the edits to “super_cool_essay” on my laptop or at the very least be able to that process manually

It was kind of a word salad but my ideal solution would be to type away on my home desktop and pick up on my laptop at college or vise versa

Thanks for reply

As for Bitwarden and Tutanota (which someone else recommended) is there any reason to use those over proton

And I said In another reply that proton drive can’t edit files which isn’t a total deal breaker for me just somewhat inconvenient, does Filen allow me to edit files without having to download, edit, then reupload

As for browsers even on edge before this transformation I used UBO and now I’m using it with Firefox and duck duck go but I’ll check out startpage as an alternative browser

As for vpn proton has one but I never really knew what they did other than allowing me to open any site on my middle/high schools and Wi-Fi. I mean is that what they do? Like hide websites from (excuse the lack of my technical knowledge) router but not the router sending the data where ever it needs to go.

But anyways thanks for the super detailed response super helpful :)

Oh yeah I’m very well of privacy vs convenience which is why it’s sorta a goal of mine it eventually learn server and self hosted when I’m all settled with current privacy options

appreciate the link tho definitely gonna try to use that when I’m more techy

Like I said I’m just dipping my toes in right now and I’m doing this more out of practice and less that I’m worried about data (which sounds odd Ik) but eventually I’m planning on being more secure but for now I’m just looking around and seeing what’s what

Yeah your right about google lol. I’m just not ready to dive into the deep end of privacy, heck the only reason I’m going through all this is because I think it’s just a good practice. I’m totally gonna switch once I get more settled into things

As for proton I’m still testing the waters. I can’t edit files in proton drive which isn’t a deal breaker just mildly inconvenient but it’ll definitely hold me over until I can find something that private and can edit files (If such a thing even exists)

But I super appreciate the recommendations super helpful I’m just not ready to dive in the deep end when the very thought of swimming makes me uneasy

I’m still getting settled and DeGoogling (or I guess in my case DeMicrosofting) myself is gonna be a process but now that I have this post and all the information with it my transformation will begin

I’ve been helped so much In this post I forgot about it but glad it served it’s purpose

Well thank so much for everyone who chimed in I appreciate it a ton. For now I’m going to to test the waters with proton family like the drive and calander and mail and see how I like that and if it’s a viable alternative for OneDrive and outlook for my case. I think it’ll work but I’m still very open to suggestions

Someone recommended the proton.me family so I think I’m going to start there and get settled there

I might pay for it if I get used to it and settled in compared to OneDrive and all that stuff

Also side note. Do they have iOS apps (which I’m assuming will sync between my 2 windows computer) or will I just have to make a web shortcut

I took a brief peek at it and it actually looks good

I’m assuming you have experience with it

I might keep my Gmail account around for things like a backup email or super important Stuff like my bank account

So proton.me is essentially everything and I can use without paying as long I delete old stuff

First off thanks

Second: stupid question is proton.me like an email or an app/website for email or something else entirely and I’m just missing something

I haven’t really gone in-depth on those links but something I forgot to add: OneNote is a huge tool for me as I love to hand write or type my notes on my surface and then be able to get them on my desktop or phone. So any suggestions on that matter or are there stuff in those links

Thanks for that

Yeah I mainly use outlook just because my college email could only login to outlook both on desktop and my phone and eventually I kinda shifted from the gmail app/website but under the same gmail account. I only took a brief look but that looks like it’d be a good start

Alrighty I’ll take a look around thanks

Like i said I’m not very tech savvy so a local server is something I’d like to try to avoid maybe unless it can run out of the box.

As for encryption wdym by gpg im assuming that’s an encryption service