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If you are looking for a free alternative, you're not going to like it. If you're lucky, you'll find a service hosting OnlyOffice for you with cloud storage, which will suffer from not having the worldwide server capacity of an American tech giant.
I'd sooner investigate if you can deal with not editing documents much on the go and going for LibreOffice on a computer. It's the solution I went for. If you have a service that hosts notes in the cloud for you, I found that to be enough to draft something, which I can turn into a document when necessary.
Somebody suggested Proton. They are not a big as Google. Their services work alright. But where Google used to be "don't be evil," Proton's motto seems to be "be daft." Examples range from praise for the 47th administration in the US, selling email users out to the authorities, and most recently sponsoring questionable YouTube content. They want to be your Google replacement for everything and going with them is rapidly turning into "out of the Google frying pan, into the Proton frying pan." Plus, they aren't exactly cheap if you ask me.
LibreOffice have recently announced they were going back to developing a cloud version. This situation might get better in the future.
Do you recommend any alternatives to proton?
In terms of word processing? No. That's why I do it on notes. Look into Nextcloud as a solution to do calendars, contacts, cloud storage, and notes to de-googlefy.
Sorry i should have clarified, alternatives to proton mail?
If you're not doing it via your own domain, I don't think it matters much. Half the people you email are on gmail anyways so you'll never break free fully. So you can stay with Proton if you wanted to. I feel icky about them so I personally wouldn't give them any money.
But there are also providers like Tuta that offer European hosted email services. I haven't heard anything bad about Tuta.