PRIVATE Alternatives to Google Docs!

Billions of people use Google products for their personal and professional needs -- their products are high quality after all! For example, Google Docs Editors Suite allows you to collaborate in real time with anyone in the world in a seamless experience!

Unfortunately, it's not at all private -- Google gets access to ALL your personal information.

In this video we look at two alternatives to Google docs that are private: Skiff and Cryptpad.

00:00 Intro
01:28 Why look for alternatives?
03:04 Cryptpad Deep Dive
06:34 Cryptpad TLDR
07:15 Skiff Deep Dive
10:50 Skiff TLDR
11:03 Summary

Both platforms are free, and are secured with end-to-end encryption, so not even Skiff or Cryptpad can see what you're writing. Try them out, and let us know if you have other e2ee google-docs-alternatives that you recommend!

Huge thank you to Andrew Milich for his time!

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Recommended Books:

Beginner's Introduction To Privacy - Naomi Brockwell

Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

What has the government done to our money - Rothbard

Extreme Privacy - Michael Bazzel (The best privacy book I've ever read)

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald

Some of my favorite products to help protect your privacy!

Faraday bag (signal stopping, to protect your fob, credit card, computer, and phone)

Data Blocker (if you're charging your phone in an unknown port, use this so that no data is transferred)

Camera tape (electrical tape is the best tape for covering phone and computer cameras)

USB-C to ethernet adapter:

Privacy Screens (use your phone and computer in public? Keep your information safe!)

Computer: (Search for the size right for your computer)

Phone: (Search for the size for your phone, decide whether you want glass or plastic!)

[tigerscott]

The days of trusting big tech companies are over. Trusting any commercial operating system today is like going to bed at home with your doors unlocked.

[artdeshine]

Ive been using skiff for some time now, and will say its both Impressive, AND improving. The phone apps work well, particularly the email app, but for sure the webmail/desktop is the most functional. They bring updates regularly and DO seem to listen to users with regards to feature suggestions. Honestly, if they keep improving at this pace the suite will render a lot of my other apps/softwares obsolete. I run small installer team over it and its a godsend.

[MossCoveredBonez]

Didnt find this video till after Skiff sold out to Notion. Standard Notes looks to be the next best alternative but 90/year for a document editor seems steep for anything more than 100mb of storage

[TheJamesRedwood]

Your channel is such a valuable service! Very important content combined with excellent digital communication skills.

[Aburner]

This is really well made! These sort of things need to be way more popular, it's disturbing how little people care about companies having access to their private information. Like, it's not just data, that's your LIFE. How are ya'll good with google literally know where you live?

[stevendrowe]

Good to see some companies jump on this bandwagon, the future is looking safer thanks to them.

[lowwastehighmelanin]

These videos are such a godsend, Naomi. Thanks for your hard work and interviewing these incredible folks

[CollectiveConsciousness]

Brilliant information Naomi, please keep them coming. Thanks for sharing 💚🌍

[BlockTechGold]

This is great we have been actively looking for a private alternative to google docs ... would love for it to also support drawings in vector graphic also

[chalion]

Before I watch this. Know this. The company I work for used Google docs for some of our tech databases to record repaired units, what they were and what repairs and the costs for them. It got hacked and we lost all that info. That was a valuable and costly mistake we had to recover from. Had to formulate our own database system company wide and it's an International company.

DO NOT USE google docs.

[wasnttherewasntlistening]

After trying them both I prefer Skiff because it has auto-correct and that is something I desperately need in life

[TheMichaelGrace]

I'm just getting into testing these out and it looks like Skiff has native apps! I use Google Drive mostly on my phone so this is a HUGE win for Skiff over CryptPad. Need to do more testing though. Thanks again for this excellent review of the products. Very excited to be moving a bunch of my information off of Google.

[juanlora.]

I have a google sheet linked with a form web. Google allows me to automatize this. When a person press "send" on the form, immediately save the data in my sheet. I made it by code on a function that google have.
Any of these alternatives can do that?
Ty ♡

[goodgame]

Great video, also including a chapter or test criteria on whether apps are compatible with calyxos & graphene os would be wonderful

[MrHarrilasagna]

Been doing a bit of research on Internet Computer this week. I was surprised to learn that by comparison, Google is actually the lesser of the two evils. crazy how that works... Thanks for the great tips as usual Naomi!

[ningayeti]

Could you comment on my practice of using Libre Office then encrypting the document before uploading it to Google Drive? I have the encryption and uploading to Google stages fully automated so that it is trivial to accomplish.

[DS-pkeh]

My need is to move also the personal domain based email, so would that work with any of the proposed solutions?
No need for identity secrecy, but yes for documents and emails being protected

[Steven_nevetS]

Excellent info Naomi! Love this kinda stuff....

[creyen]

Was looking for a mail and collaboration platform to add to my pCloud, thanks!

[cdl]

Good video, and possibly one of the best I have seen so far on this channel. IPFS seems to be a stand-alone service, which might be worth investigating in a future video. I love the mid-century modern styling on this channel, as well. It is similar to The Vintage Space.