--- title: My entire digital life runs on a suite of free tools,... description: A personal account of managing a digital life using free and open-source tools. The author relies on Thunderbird for multi-account email management, Obsidian... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-entire-digital-life-runs-on-a-suite-of-free-tools-and-i-don-t-have-to-spend-a-dime-xhz9j5onx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My entire digital life runs on a suite of free tools, and I don't have to spend a dime | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of managing a digital life using free and open-source tools. The author relies on Thunderbird for multi-account email management, Obsidian... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-entire-digital-life-runs-on-a-suite-of-free-tools-and-i-don-t-have-to-spend-a-dime-xhz9j5onx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Xhz9J5oNX.png og:image:alt: My entire digital life runs on a suite of free tools, and I don't have to spend a dime og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My entire digital life runs on a suite of free tools, and I don't have to spend a dime **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of managing a digital life using free and open-source tools. The author relies on Thunderbird for multi-account email management, Obsidian as a central workspace for notes and writing, and Proton Pass for password management. The post also touches on the limitations of free software, such as sync storage caps, and advocates for checking how future-proof a tool is before committing to it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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