I agree about moving contacts and calendar off Google myself. To be honest, if it's not actually somewhere you control, it's not yours. At least if you host or

I agree about moving contacts and calendar off Google myself. To be honest, if it's not actually somewhere you control, it's not yours. At least if you host or manage it yourself, you are only at the mercy of your own incompetence, whereas the cloud's competence is usually not something you can determine or anticipate regardless of SLA's and architecture. This gets demonstrated regularly if you watch the front page of this site :) I still use text files, a VCS and a couple of editor wrapper scripts as I have for at least 20 years to solve the calendar and contacts problem.