Currently moving my partner and I from Google to the Proton Duo plan.

Mail import and forwarding is great, the calendar is decent (we only miss the month overview widget on Android), the missing Linux Drive client is a pain (I tried to mount a subfolder with rclone and am now getting 429-ed (rate limited).

Some unsolved usecases we have are on mobile:

  • We use Google Keeps to share lists and take notes, and would like a mobile, non-Google, syncing notes app with a widget.Rsync is OK, we don’t need it to constantly synchronize, daily is enough.

  • We use Google Sheets on mobile to track things like board games and cat weight. Any ideas for a syncing mobile-friendly sheets app?

I’ve tried Standard Notes but it doesn’t seem to have an Android widget.

Cryptpad UI is too cluttered on mobile.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Thank you for all the quality replies!! So far I’ve found Collabora Office to have an amazing Mobile UI. Unfortunately I can’t edit files in Proton Drive in another app on Android, and manually downloading and uploading sucks. So I’ll need to figure something out for sync.

In terms of notes: Standard Notes, Joplin and the Obsidian apps I found have no included widget. NotallyX does, and the styling feels a lot like Keep. There is a separate ObsidianToDoWidget app but it hasn’t seen any update in 2 years. Dark Note looks nice but looks like it isn’t open source.

So for now I’ll go with NotallyX for the note widget.

Both Collabora Office and NotallyX will need an external app for sync so I’ll check SyncThing For Android now.

  • @ArtVandelayEnglish
    3•18 hours ago

    For mobile, I use QuillPad as my keep replacement

  • @gedaliyahEnglish
    4•17 hours ago

    For sheets, there’s OnlyOffice or Collabora

    For keep, there are a lot of options. NotallyX allows you to use an external storage folder, but you would need to figure out how to sync it (Syncthing should work if you set it up correctly)

    Joplin, Obsidian, and Standard Notes are popular recommendations, and if you are self hosting there are some other excellent ones.

    However, you might consider a notes/memo webapp like tinylist, which is great and easy to use if not as fully featured as some alternatives.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•18 hours ago

      For what it’s worth, Proton owns Standard Notes. I think they largely used the acquisition to make Proton Docs and there is no perk like free or additional access to Standard Notes than any non-Proton user has.

      I use Obsidian which syncs to my home server.

  • @YesbutnotreallyEnglish
    3•22 hours ago

    Only office could be one solution for the sheets.