If I need to make some research for a project, I keep my findings on my computer (publicly available knowledge, facts, ..).
BUT I keep all my new ideas, thinking, todos, agenda, ... offline (analog) to prevent AI tools reading them and sending it back to big corps. I keep them in a Filofax so it's easy to shuffle/insert/... pages if required.
I work in IT since 1995 (now 15 years as a freelance/consultant) and honestly I start returning back to analog information management for most of my stuff. I don't trust big corps. It's not new but it's more true today than ever.
So if you have a really revolutionary new idea/discovery: NEVER EVER put it on ANY big corps infrastructure (Cloud, OS, ...) to prevent leaking it everywhere.
What about legal media files? In addition to be a software engineer I'm a DJ... I have near 1 TB of LEGAL music (mostly FLAC or high bitrate music files) on my OneDrive (easier because I use Virtual DJ). Yes I know it's not Google Drive but how they can make a difference between legal and illegal files?
Note: I'm in a process to completely "de-googled, de-microsoft, ..." all my stuff (big self-hosted TrueNAS server with BlackBlaze backup).
For MANY things a simple text files (txt, tsv, gnu recutils, ...) is required. Using the filesystem (folder, links, ..) to organize them.
I started moving back all my things/KB to simple text files and stop using all apps/web apps "du jour". Using text files is SO lightweight and resource efficient.
For multimedia content, I use only open/future proof format free of any patents/legal restrictions.
