Google, We're Breaking Up

Google is a platform we’re likely all familiar with. When starting a business, Gmail and the Google suite of apps (also called Google Workspace) are the most user-friendly. It also doesn’t hurt that they’re largely free for solopreneurs. Over time, as your business grows and scales, I found that I needed something more robust to handle the volume of emails I get, and something more intuitive and minimal to keep me sane and organized. There are a few Google apps that are industry standard at this point that I do still use: Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Google Meet. You’ll notice that these are mostly collaborative apps for file sharing and meetings.

Hey, Notion, and Obsidian have replaced much of what I used to rely on in Google Suite: emails, docs, notes, and databases. All with much better organization. I don’t have affiliate links for any of these apps, I just genuinely like them and use them regularly. It’s been one year since I switched to Hey and I have no intentions of going back. Below, I’ll share what each app replaces for me in Google Suite, what I pay for each, and some alternatives. (Most of these have free versions.)

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