Guides
Guides
Each one comes from work we did for our own companies, with the real numbers. No client stories: these are our own. Follow new guides in any feed reader: feed.
One email address for every account
When every shop, bank and newsletter has the same address, one leak reaches all of them, and you can't tell who sold it. A separate address for each account fixes both.
Read the guide →MoneyFind every subscription without handing over your bank login
Subscription-tracker apps want you to connect your bank through a data aggregator. You can get the same list from statements you already have, without anyone else seeing your transactions.
Read the guide →BackupsBackups you have actually restored
A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a backup. Here is the setup we run for our own companies, and the drill that proves it works.
Read the guide →RecordsLeaving Airtable for a database you run
We moved our own records from Airtable to Baserow, an open-source database with a similar spreadsheet-style interface, on a small server we rent. What it took, and two traps worth knowing.
Read the guide →ContactsClean up your address book without Google or iCloud
Our founder's address book went from 675 cards to 207 real contacts, synced to an iPhone and an Android phone with neither Google nor iCloud in the middle. The steps, and the one mistake that deleted 431 people.
Read the guide →BackupsMonitors you won't learn to ignore
Our backup check sent 12 false alarms, 4 of them in 5 days. That is how a monitor teaches you to ignore it. What we changed so that an alert means something again.
Read the guide →Want this set up for your business?
Everything here is free to use and do yourself. If you'd rather have it designed and built for your company, in accounts you own, that is what makeprivacy.com does.