protonmail is nice, but ive not yet really converted over to a non google email. its in my plan i think for next year but i dont know if ill continue to use protonmail or not or use a normal email provider. either way, ill likley move to my own domain except for junk accounts.
protonmail can use .org or .net emails fine, there all the same.
if you havent used a domain on your gmail, short answer. Yes you need to change them all.
Im not really sure why anyone would bother with Brave? Whats the point?
On Firefox. There integrating and making more obvious more services. Firefox Services: Monitor, Send, & Lockwise
DuckDuckGo. Starpage is google by proxy. Why would you use them if you dont want to use google?
The problem is getting out of the habbit of searching like google wants you to search. And if you really really cant break your google crack habbit, you can use !sp in duckduckgo to redirect to startpage.
You need a password manager.
A notebook is a password manager. If that works for you that’s good. Just maybe keep a backup.
Actually, its not that dangerous. The main risk is simply losing it. You just might want to consider how you write down your passwords, does it include all info, or just passwords and sites etc.
For a digital password manager there all fine to be honest. 1password, dashlane, bitwarden, or the slightly more inconvenient and higher maintenance keepass.
Andoird is a useless pile of junk without google. If your happy with a dumb smart phone then thats OK. But honestly.. I agree with @noenken if your using andorid you might have to decide either to be happy with Google or stop using Android.
I dont have any news aggregators. I guess i do have apple news, but i don’t use it. Instead i have the following news apps installed: BBC News, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian. Its a reasonably nice mix.
Some additional notes.
Apple maps is quite good. Yes not as good as google, but actually quite good. Alternativly, openstreetmaps, though I find they have their own issues, they have a lot of data.
But, the best option for maps, is to plan your journey. Use other map services as a guide and help, but have an idea of where your going in the first place will loosen your reliance on them. Especially when most of your travel will be in local areas anyway.
I use iCloud for documents, and a mix of MS office and apple office for making documents. MS office is good, the web version is alright. its hard to find something as good as google drive, but you get what you pay for and this is absolutely true for google drive as well. there’s a reason its so cheap.
I think you’ll find you really need to give consideration on the Android front and if you actually want to deal with it or not.