Le French Wikipédia opted in becoming one of the early adopter wikis with the aim of modernizing & improving desktop experience:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#List_of_early_adopter_wikis_(test_wikis)

Sure, as a radical, you can thrive in the fediverse, but what’s the alternative really? Censorship, catering to advertisers, closed systems… it’s your choice.

I sometimes e-mail myself (to a dedicated address) with to-dos or reminders, also you can add labels and/or folders to prioritize the messages/tasks

Dracula by Bram Stoker: https://archive.org/details/dracula00stok

There are tons of books available here: https://archive.org/details/texts

You could make a quick phone call, I mean Signal requires a phone number, might as well make use of it!