Hello guys. In this last month I’ve been preparing a setup so I can change carrers. I want everything to be professional, well organized and efficient. In order to do that I studied and tried to implement Tiago Forte’s 4 pillars of productivity method with only privacy-focused softwares. For now, th…

[image] Lymros: Let me know if you have any suggestions! Not a direct privacy suggestion: if there is not perfect privacy replacement, don’t harm yourself in using inferior tools just solely for the sake of privacy. I’m super interested to see how you make it work for your business, and hope …

I don’t see anything wrong with this. Your only concern could be related to file sharing to other people. Will your work require a usage of another cloud storage system?

[image] Struggling for Productivity Questions I don’t see anything wrong with this. Your only concern could be related to file sharing to other people. Will your work require a usage of another cloud storage system? No, just Proton Drive is enough. Actually my concer…

You might be able to eliminate LibreOffice since you already use the Proton suite which includes Proton Docs . I haven’t used it myself but after creating a new document, it looks like it’s based on .docx rather than .odt. I’m unsure if it’s as mature as the Google suite which I believe allows you to…

[image] Struggling for Productivity Questions You might be able to eliminate LibreOffice since you already use the Proton suite which includes Proton Docs . I haven’t used it myself but after creating a new document, it looks like it’s based on .docx rather than .odt. I’m u…

That is very true and I’ll really think about it. Thank you!

It also means that you could go for not perfect solution like hosted Nextcloud. It might not be good as Notion, but it has better privacy policy. There are providers who might offer it with add-ons you need or even admin account, so you can install whatever add-on you want. In this case you trust t…

No problem. Outside of that, I suggest getting a 321 Backup Plan working sooner rather than later.

Look at AppFlowy as a notion replacement.

The best tool in my productivity arsenal is Obsidian Thousands of community plugins / themes / github repos that will quadruple your workflow. Can send you all the ones I use if you need

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overdrawn98901 April 28, 2025, 7:19pm 3

Be careful - I’m not sure how well GnuCash will scale outside of smaller businesses. It’s run locally only, and losing this information is quite dreadful. What’s your backup plans for ensuring you don’t lose financial data? Proton Drive sync?

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