So the thing to know about Gmail is that they utilize tags rather than folders. I don’t think folders exist (anymore) – rather, you can create categories and subcategories using whatever tags you create. You also cannot sort emails by name/alphabetically by title.
Everything you’ve described, though, you can do in Google Drive using documents. You could create an individual “Word” style doc for each recipe, save the recipe name as the file name, and sort your files by name alphabetically.
The added benefit of using Google drive rather than creating a new email account is then you won’t have to toggle between accounts. Very often you may be logged into one account and meaning to send emails from the other (I say this as a user of multiple Gmail accounts.)
Still pondering what to do. If I purchased Paprika and it went out of business down the line, do you think I would have the option of easily moving the recipes I had stored in Paprika into a new recipe manager app?
I use the app and website Plantoeat.com and have been a member for 5+ years. It allows you to scrape recipes from websites or manually enter them. It stores them in “the cloud” and they can be accessed via the app or the website. You can also download them back to yourself as a .csv if you ever need to. You can organize by category or tag and do great filtering by ingredient. It’s the best and I love it.
Free storage = we will look at everything here and use them to build your consumer profile/sell to data brokers/train AI with.
Gmail is brilliant. Everyone’s professional correspondence, personal info, all nice machine readable and indexable.
Stuff like One Drive and iCloud are designed so that they’re integrated into their particular company’s ecosystem where the free bit is just big enough that the lower end user won’t breach it, but anyone who uses their stuff in ‘above average’ ways will quickly need additional room, which, of course, is a subscription. Ditto external services like Dropbox.
Photos take up most of my digital storage. My oldest digital photos stored in Google photos, say 2006. Apparently taken with my good old Nikon Coolpix!
