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by Havoc 32 days ago
Yeah I've already got a game plan - move the email to proton & sign up for claude to replace gemini search/chat...which I do use heavily. Works out more expensive but claude pro seems to include a little coding agent usage too. Already have one of those (GLM) but a bit of anthropic allowance would be nice

The problem is extracting oneself from google is non-trivial. That must be a decade of emails...
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saint_yossarian 31 days ago
Proton has a pretty good importer for GMail/Calendar/Contacts.

The downside is that their Android calendar app is shit (a rewrite should come later this year), and Android contact syncing doesn't exist (planned for 2027). Not sure how the situation looks on iOS, but AFAIK it's similar.

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Havoc 31 days ago
Good to know re importer. Helpful.

Their iOS mail app is fine though doesn’t do offline caching as well as Gmail

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goobatrooba 31 days ago
I like the Migadu migration guide: install thunderbird, add both accounts, simply move the folder from one account to the other. Messy is the Google label system which tends to create dupes in thunderbird so you need to do some label cleanup first.
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