TechnoCat

I bought a domain and used my domain for email for a few years with Gmail being used. Then one day I switched it to Proton and I didn’t really have to do much because it is the same email address but a different service under the hood.

The thing that takes time is updating all of your accounts and contacts to use your new email. Took years for me. But I’m pretty free to move around now.

I’ve been contributing business hours and websites to OSM via CoMaps for a few weeks now. OSM needs that as a minimum to make it viable over Google Maps for me. Business discovery with Google Maps will be a huge challenge to match; Google is able to trawl its huge database of reviews for keywords so I can search “vegan cinnamon roll” and get results.

I use Transit App for bus schedules and routing.

CoMaps car/bike/walk/hike navigation has worked pretty well for me, but the turn by turn directions and voice are not as good as Google Maps. I’ve also been finding Google Maps routes are becoming laughably bad and it really irritates me I have to review a route before taking it now. Google keeps trying to route me through alleys and other dumb zig zag paths lately.

From my very subjective experience: Over the decades I’ve used Lastpass, OnePassword, Bitwarden, and Proton Pass. Proton Pass is my favorite; Bitwarden wasn’t much different, but I find Proton Pass’ UX to be slightly more responsive and to my liking. They are both excellent though and I have my significant other using Bitwarden because they don’t want the other Proton products.

This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these services and products. Obviously it is quite personal, but for me it was nice to compare your ideas against mine. Pretty close other than password manager I would score much differently. Good work and thanks again for sharing.