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by richjdsmith 2817 days ago
I spent Sunday afternoon researching alternatives for Keep after hitting my breaking point with DontBeEvilCorp a couple weeks ago.

The best I found by a mile is Notion.so. In fact, it is such a great app, it has promted me to consider migrating years of OneNote notebooks, along with trying it out as a replacement for Todoist.

Google photos I replaced with Amazon Prime Photos (from pan to fire, I know, but I'm still oddly happier).

Google Drive was the easiest - I use a combo of DropBox and Arq Backup Tool going to Backblaze B2.

Email has been hard. I have always maintained my own email domain, but had that forward to gmail for the convenience. Not sure what I'm going to do there.

Hope that helped.

2 comments

I use Dropbox Paper for notes. It has the minimalism of Keep, but you can use formatting, and you're not limited to HTML exports. You can export everything (or just a few things) as Markdown or .docx files.
I'll second the recommendation for Notion.so. It's a neat piece of software developed by people who are unreasonably into making the killer note taking app.

I use it to replace Evernote, primarily, but also for building requirements docs, todo lists, or notes.

Woah, this is the killer note app. It's Onenote+Trello with /-commands and keyboard shortcuts.