Mange your data

Using Google

• Set up an email account with gmail
• Set up the following on desktop and phone – 15 gig storage free for each gmail account. (Upgrade to Google One is $2/month for 100 GB)
  • Gmail
  • Google Keep for you notes and reminders
  • Google Drive to store your files
  • Google photo to store your photo
• Don’t forget Google also owns Google map, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google search, Google translate, Google voice. Google definitely knows more about you than yourself. Good grief!

Other options

• Use Proton Mail based in Switzerland for your more secure communications.
• Use a different service such as Microsoft:
  • Outlook for your email
  • Onedrive to store your data – 5Gig free, $2/month for each extra 200GB
  • Onenote as your notebook
  • Of course Microsoft owns Windows, Office, Bing. it is not as extensive as Google.
• Apple also offers similar services
  • iCloud if you use an iphone

Google and Microsoft still offer the most comprehensive set of tools. My personal bias is Google tools are just easier to use.

You may use a combination of above. Whatever you use, it is hard to avoid Android, Windows, IOS, Google search and Google map watching over your shoulders.