I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to.
I'd like to be able to share files across multiple computers. I need some sort of web-based access, but it doesn't need to be great if I can use a separate, superior, more flexible application. The ability to access the services offline would be nice but is not too important yet. I'm also not that concerned with privacy; I was in fact considering releasing all of my emails publicly, but I found it hard to do with the Gmail interface. Email is probably the most important as my whole life is in there. Proprietary Google searches lead me to http://www.gnumail.org http://www.runbox.com http://www.fastmail.fm These don't seem any cheaper than running a mail server on a virtual private server, which would be more flexible. I don't think that would be too annoying either. Thoughts on that? There are a bunch of desktop calendar applications, and I'm sure some of them are more awesome than Google Calendar. How does one sync them across computers and version/backup them? My inclination is to use git on a plain text calendar file if I'm not satisfied by the more conventional approaches. I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. It may be less useful once I graduate in May as I'm likely not to have assignments due every day, but some more advanced equivalent would be wonderful. Does anyone know of an equivalent for this? I don't use Google Docs much except for short-term collaboration with mortals, and I don't mind using it that for situations like that. For other situations, git and ssh is better. And I can use Gobby for brainwriting. Thanks Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
