The vendor will absolutely take that custom code and use it to extract maximum profit from a different customer. I’ve experienced it from both sides of the transaction. Open source at least allows the functionality to be “developed” only once.

It doesn’t even have to be offshore accounts. Just a fat long-term maintenance contract would be enough to hide a lot of corrupt costs.

Maybe instead of choosing an app, you could consider the overall process of tracking what you need to do. Read David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done”. It’s short. Then you can apply that process using your favorite app.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

My favorite app for GTD is emacs and org-mode.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement www.ice.gov

Check out https://www.firefly-iii.org/

https://simplelogin.io/ (owned by Proton) is great for this. They have a feature to generate an email address by random word or even by uuid.

iOS has Lockdown Mode which it sounds like you could benefit from.

Are all of those drives powered up constantly? What’s your power bill like?

I was also going to suggest Haiku. It’s the spiritual successor to BeOs. I was always disappointed that didn’t become more popular.

I use Emacs’ Org Mode. It may not be exactly what you’re looking for, but it is highly versatile.

Me too. I could never get into nushell or fish because they’re not posix and I don’t need to learn two ways to do something.

You could, but maybe a good shell makes it easier than the external tool. Or maybe you use the shell to effectively combine the inputs and outputs of the other tools.

He did say he was doing it to learn. Maybe when he’s done he will be able to appreciate what goes into making a viable browser.

Does it need to be online? If not, you could use LibreOffice.

Are you editing from the smartphone, or just viewing?

Would a wiki site with tables be suitable?