I’ve been going through my personal journey to reduce my Google footprint and planned on documenting the tools that I’ve replaced. I’ve lately enjoyed reading everyone’s blog posts on Default Apps (full collection here), and decided to join the bandwagon.
I added links to the apps that I feel a bit lesser known:
- 📨 Mail Client: Thunderbird, Nine
- 📮 Mail Server: Migadu
- 📝 Notes: Joplin, Signal (Note to Self)
- ✅ To-Do: jtx Board, DAVx⁵, Nextcloud
- 📷 Photo Shooting: Google Camera
- 🟦 Photo Management: Synology Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Thunderbird, Business Calendar 2
- 📆 Calendar Backend: Nextcloud
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: Syncthing (to my local NAS)
- 📖 RSS: Read You
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: DAVx⁵, Nextcloud
- 🌐 Browser: Firefox, Mull
- 💬 Chat: Signal, weechat
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox sync
- 📈 Spreadsheets and Office Documents: LibreOffice
- 🎵 Music: Youtube Music
- 🎤 Podcasts: AntennaPod with gPodder Sync
- 🔐 Password Management: Bitwarden
- 🗺️ Maps: Google Maps, OSMAnd (for biking)
- 🌡️ Weather: Geometric Weather
- 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo
I still have more to write about how I got here, which will be a future post.