(2021) Table showing monthly/yearly costs for privacy
| Service | Company | Monthly Cost (USD) | Yearly Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPN | NordVPN | $3.99 | $95.75 |
| FastMail | $5 | $50 | |
| Total | $8.99 | $107.88 |
I stopped using Standard Notes and Tresorit early 2020 for a few reasons: 1) Sync was super slow. - This was expected since clients need to encrypt/decrypt when receiving/sending info. What I didn't expect was how distracting sluggishness would be, ultimately causing frustration and loss of productivty. 2) Expensive. - After dropping these services, I save $200~ per year.
I now use Dropbox, which unfortunately isn't the most private cloud storage provider. However they are a big company and have really good integration with my NAS. Happy with them so far.
I just store plaintext notes on my file server hosted by Fast Mail.
(2019) Table showing monthly/yearly costs for privacy
| Service | Company | Monthly Cost (USD) | Yearly Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPN | NordVPN | $3.99 | $95.75 |
| FastMail | $5 | $50 | |
| Note-Taking | StandardNotes | $4.17 | $49.99 |
| Cloud Storage | Tresorit | $10.47 | $125 |
| Total | $23.63 | $320.74 |
Replace NordVPN + Fastmail with ProtonMail's Visionary plan and that bumps monthly cost to $44.64 and yearly cost to $462.99. Suggestions, comments, other thoughts welcome, send them to weblog@noel.noynoy.org.