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I can offer up 1password comments. It has a good native app for osx. I don't use osx. It offers a CLI tool that spits out json. I wish it would just integrate with pass(1). The Firefox add-on is close enough to abysmal that I use thier website making it inconvenient. It doesn't work with regular http auth so you have to copy the fields in manually then refresh.

Otherwise it's fine. The multiple Vaults is great to share passwords among family or maybe your co-workers. It has features like TOTP and supports many types of other fields.

4/10 on usability 10/10 on its core feature set. Probably a 9/10 on osx.

I’ve used Fastmail for years now on a work account. It’s best feature is that it’s not Google.

First, no phone support. Hardly acceptable when even Google has this.

Second, no collaboration suite like Drive/Docs.

Third, no addons I’m accustomed to having in my daily driver email suite. Things I miss include schedule to send later, default reply all, and no priority inbox.

Im stuck using Google for email and maps. I hate google and want to get off them entirely but Gsuite with 1Tb of disk space for my single user personal domain is so powerful and so cheap it’s impossible for me to switch without giving up too much.

Google maps I think has some real competition at least. I’m hopeful Apple Maps gets continued improvements so it can get the job done well enough I can drop Google maps this year.

I set up my own domain, and forwarded emails from it to my Gmail account. Over a year and a half, every time I logged into something, I updated the email address to my own.

Eventually, when I jumped to FastMail, I repointed my domain name to it, and most of my new emails started coming over automatically, since the email address is now something I control. I monitored Gmail for a while regularly to catch straggler services. (I chose not to forward to avoid complacency with stuff going to Gmail before reaching my FastMail account.)

Here are the steps I've been following:

1) Sign up for Fastmail.

2) Sync all mail from GMail account to Fastmail (via the Fastmail web UI; you grant FM access to your GMail data through OAuth - once sync is complete you can revoke this access).

3) Set up an auto-forward rule in GMail for all incoming mail to go to your Fastmail address.

4) Set up a rule in Fastmail to put all incoming mail sent to your GMail address into a separate folder (or labeled with a special label if you're signed up for Fastmail's label beta). Any time you get email in that folder, that's a task for you to either unsubscribe or update the corresponding account to your new email address.

I'm currently in month #10 of migration. Most commonly used accounts were updated during the first couple of weeks. But be careful that the tail of services that are still configured to use your old email address tends to be long, and in my experience those are some of the more important emails that you don't want to miss. The ones that are only sent once every couple years.

Also, it really helps if you've been using GMail with a personal domain name (e.g. through Google Apps). In this case migrating is a matter of pointing the MX DNS records to Fastmail's servers. Bonus points: Fastmail allows wildcard recipients, so if you prefer to have unique addresses for each service you sign up for, you don't even need to set up a separate xyz@example.com alias. Just register with @example.com and you'll get all email delivered to that address in your inbox, and you'll be able to specify it as the sender's address if you decide to reply to some of those mails. Having a separate email address for each web service also makes looking up who leaked what on haveibeenpwned.com more fun.