Nothing stored on my computer only. I pay for Dropbox, Drive, and iCloud. I used to also use Backblaze but it was annoying to maintain, expensive, and seems unnecessary.
After much trial and error, determined Dropbox is the fastest and best cloud storage for me and my large media files. Drive is slow on macs and iCloud is unreliable and finicky but they still make sense for certain use cases.
Dropbox Personal photo and design archives, work/job archives, personal documents, inspiration library (Eagle app), misc projects and saved things
Google Drive Shared Family folder with Ian, google docs, google doc archives (since they get converted to .ppt and .doc on Dropbox. Meh.)
iCloud I mostly use it to sync my Apple services and data like photos, messages, etc. As well as any apps that have icloud sync support. Its not good for searching and retrieving non app-based files.
I also have ANOTHER Google Drive for stuff related to my business. But I won’t get into that. I use that because I am already paying for it with my Workspace and I don’t want to commingle my personal stuff.
I have a ‘_TO SORT’ folder most top level places so I can just dump things for the time being and put them in the right place later
I keep frequently accessed folders in my Finder sidebar
