[dnissley]

I use google drive and google photos.

Photos go in photos, everything else goes in drive.

Within google drive I follow a getting-things-done-ish approach. I have two folders at the root -- one for general filing, one for current projects.

I use a combination of google keep + taking pictures of things to capture things quickly that need later attention.

This isn't perfect. I don't like having to use google docs for all text, for example. Would much prefer to use plain text files in most cases, but they aren't editable within the google drive ui. Luckily they've released the pageless layout relatively recently, which improves the experience a lot.

The pains I have are not worth investing in a custom setup. I just don't have time for that. I want to spend my time accomplishing things, not organizing files, or even worse -- keeping my organizing system online and constantly having to tinker with it. I just can't be bothered.

I'm happy with the fact that at any moment I could have any of my physical devices stolen, ruined, etc. and I would be mostly back on my way as soon as I get another.

[RedCardRef]

Ummm.. hate to play the devil's advocate here, I am sure you must have 2FA setup and all, but in the off chance that you loose access to your google account(for the sake of argument lets say for an "alleged" violation of ToS).

How do you plan to regain access?

[dnissley]

I do think sometimes about moving to a google for business account, but the likelihood of losing access to a google account seems pretty low, all things considered. It's easy to forget that here on hacker news, certain probabilities, dangers, etc. are overstated by extremely tiny groups of outspoken people. E.g. based on the comments here you might imagine that most people are somewhat wary of big tech because of privacy concerns, when that's probably not even true of people browsing hacker news in general, let alone the general populace of the US or the world.