Anyone have an alternative for Google Keep? I just want shared notes and checklists across all my devices
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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On the list, will get there maybe in 2-3 weeks time! But if you want something sooner, maybe post on the community https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
If you need markdown and other formatting you can use notion.so, but I can't expect that company will be good in the future even though they're good now. They've already added AI. I use it for a note-taking because I can create hyperlinks between notes.
Upnote or check out a new one called Lockbook
I recommend notesnook
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Why Tidal? I get the part against apple, but why tidal?
Tidal
It is hard for me to be the arbiter of what tools are ethical enough, so I try to make these facts as easy as possible to find for people. In the end, it educates and ultimately most decide against using such tools (for example, Spotify). There is a note on Tidal's profile about Jack Dorsey's and Jay-Z's involvement. https://purchasewithpurpose.io/software/34R8h9DOVPhaJ7CZMmKW48/
That's kinda why I was asking I remember something about Dorsey a while a go
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Why does every search engine look exactly the same, and push the exact same AI chat feature, and have identical options for filtering arranged in out in the exact same order in the exact same location.
I think there's only one search engine.
People are all copying what they are familiar with, and that is Google. I list the providers that have AI Summaries as part of their offering; you can find one that doesn't. https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/
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I also like OnlyOffice as an alternative to MSOffice/Google Office Suite, has free tiers and real-time sessions
Yup, an excellent option and it is listed on the site. https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/office-suite/
It is worth noting the potential ties to Russia as that has been a deal breaker for some.
i thought you had stopped recommending protonmail and spotify but i see now both are back (spotify not in this image, but (with caveats) on your website).
i see you've been making these images for many years and obviously put a lot of time in to it - i assume that like most other ethical consumerism campaigns you must have some funding for it? (from who?)
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What about https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ ?
Doesn't that already serve the same purpose? ... without also recommending to use a closed source browser as Vivaldi like you are doing instead?
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how do I take multiple emails and consolidate them into one ? thats the biggest thing preventing me from degoogling gmail
Thunderbird can do something like this! It's called 'Unified folders' on desktop and 'Unified Inbox' on mobile I think? But essentially it takes all your inboxes and makes them into a single folder.
you should never use "just one" email. I would find a service that you can have one main account and have a a few aliases.
That's cool and all but that doesn't solve my issue of not wanting to use 6+ Gmail accounts, I need to consolidate their inboxes or I can't move away from Gmail
When you select a new email provider check to see if they have a migration tool. For example, I use spacemail and they have this: https://www.spaceship.com/business-email/migrate-business-email/
how do
Not entirely sure of your situation. So you have 6+ Gmail accounts and want a service that can import them into a single account?
I could probably look into it but more so hoping anyone has any ideas or experience as to consolidate the inboxes (keeping incoming emails) into 1 inbox or whatever other strategy would work
That's how aliases work. Pretty much all of the services listed here - https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/email/ - have them. You can have multiple email addresses, but yet they all go to the same inbox.
As a strategy to minimize your effort in the migration, start by forwarding all your Gmail accounts to the corresponding inbox and/or alias. You can then start using the new service right away and take as long as you need to migrate your accounts across.
Perfect, so there is a way to forward incoming emails right?
I wasn't thinking of aliases but using aliases as the address to forward to is pretty smart
Thanks to you I was able to forward all incoming stuff from Gmail into aliased inboxes
cheers
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there an alternative for google maps?