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Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable.

It is like a treadmill that keeps increasing speed. If you slow down, you are thrown out.

If consecutive quarterly results are not good, CEO is typically thrown out. This pressure forces management to make unnatural decisions that might help short-term, but will hurt long-term. What we are seeing with Google with all of these recent events/decisions is a result of this, IMO.

Zoho Mail is a strong option. Comes with mobile apps, supports all standard protocols (IMAP/POP/ActiveSync), includes Calendar and many other modules. Zero tracking. Zero ads.

Beyond Mail, Zoho offers several apps that can replace most of what Google offers. From Docs to office suite, note-taking to chat and many more.

(Disclosure: I am with Zoho)

This is the problem when a note-taking app tries to make it ‘big’. A good note-taking app can be a niche business. But when you raise hundreds of millions of dollars, there is pressure and you are forced to make unnatural decisions to show growth.

Also, note-taking apps are part of a suite. See Apple, Microsoft, Google, Zoho (disclosure: I am with Zoho and we compete in note-taking space with Zoho Notebook). It is a challenge for any independent app provider to compete with a single app against suites in the long run. It’s surprising Evernote didn’t expand to other productivity apps beyond note-taking.

Nothing was mentioned about multiple spleens at birth (Polysplenia). Yes, some people are born with multiple spleens. In such case, it has nothing to do with injury and there doesn't seem to be enough knowledge on why this occurs.

Multiple spleens often result in mis-diagnosis (during radiology) leading to wrong treatment. When you know you have accessory spleens, it is always good to give them a heads up.

If you are looking for seamless integration, you need to buy into an ecosystem. An ecosystem that offers all/most of these pieces of software and integrates them well. Obviously, not a lot of ecosystems exist that offer all these pieces.

Based on your apps list (Box, Drive, Email, Slack, Salesforce), there are two ecosystems that offer alternatives to all these apps - Microsoft & Zoho (I am with Zoho). Google is also in the mix if you add apps from Google Apps Marketplace.

So there are two options. 1) Pick an integrated ecosystem and integrate missing apps. 2) Pick independent apps and integrate all of them

You clearly are doing #2 and experiencing the challenges. It is only going to get exponentially worse as you add more apps into the mix.