Obsidian keeps your notes as plain markdown files on your own disk and builds a linked web of thought around them: backlinks, graph view, and a plugin ecosystem of unusual depth. Free for personal use, and your data never leaves your computer unless you say so. The program itself is proprietary, and official sync is […]
Standard Notes encrypts everything end-to-end before it syncs, has passed independent audits, and runs from a company whose entire product is note privacy. The free tier covers encrypted text for life. Rich formatting and editor extensions live behind the paid plans, and plain text discipline takes adjustment. For a diary or a lifetime of notes, […]
K-9 Mail is an open-source Android email app, and it is still its own app. Thunderbird for Android is the Mozilla-branded sibling built from the same project. Installing one does not install the other. Both talk to your mail server and, if you leave them that way, not to an analytics company. Neither app contains […]
Thunderbird is the desktop mail program in Mozilla’s orbit: IMAP and POP, calendars, feeds, and OpenPGP built in on the desktop. Mail stays in the program on your machine, which is the real difference from opening Gmail in a browser tab. The Android app is a separate story and still leans on OpenKeychain. “No telemetry” […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
