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Suffering a serious bout of Subscription Fatigue today, so I decided to cancel all non-critical subscriptions. All but one of them were "Annual" plans. Canceling those doesn't feel quite as good as I'd hoped.

@jack This reminds to get hold of all of my subscription in a spreadsheet. How many did you end up cancelling?

@ridwan Readwise, Dropbox, Day One, Qobuz, and a couple of newsletters so far.

@jack I usually reconsider all of them prior to renewal. One of the reasons I like using apple's system for them is how they notify me weeks before annual ones renew giving me plenty of time to consider alternatives

@hjertnes Any service that doesn't send me a heads up prior to renewal gets put on the naughy list. I have too many scheduled tasks like "Confirm renewal of NNN subscription on June 11" etc.

@jack critical is a sketchy slope for me... I to have to many subscriptions and I know some I could probably live without, but I have a very hard time canceling. It's much easier to add more. 🤣😂🤣😂

@jack Ahh. I have a shit list for that purpose. Or it also contains anything or anyone that annoy or piss me off. At the moment wordle is on the top

@hjertnes I just scroll past them, much like 80% of everything everywhere.

@timapple I mean, it's only $5/month, right?! After auditing mine, I found that these "It's just a cuppa coffee" priced subscriptions added up to over $300/month. That's nuts. I'm down to $250 😀

@jack I feel really guilty when mine push $75.. you made me feel much better, thanks! 🤣😂🤣😂

@ridwan @jack Check out Bobby app, it gives me a quick overview of my monthly subscription costs.

@timapple My list included everything, NYTimes, Netflix, Apple, etc. Still a lot, though.

@pratik Didn't know about Bobby, thanks. Although I kind of prefer blissful ignorance most of the time :)

@hjertnes @jack I don’t even need to put Wordle on a shit list, it didn’t even register as interesting to try in the first place. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂

@jack What did you replace Readwise and Day One with (if anything?)

@pimoore it's in my shit list for making all my feeds insufferable

@jack @pratik i tried Bobby … useless … you might as well pull up numbers / Airtable … much more powerful

@JohnPhilpin Good to know, thanks!

@jack I feel so much better about myself … thankyou

@hjertnes poor Wordle … it’s free, ignores everyone … what did it do to upset you?

@JohnPhilpin it's annoying to see all the posts

@JohnPhilpin @jack @pratik Numbers doesn’t get nearly the credit it deserves, highly underrated app.

@pimoore concur - add in the sharing - with anyone - you wonder why anyone would bother with Google Docs.

Same for Keynote and Pages.

@hjertnes well that’s not Wordle’s fault 🤪

@JohnPhilpin numbers, keynote, and pages aren't cross platform natively and their web versions aren't the best.

Google Docs is pretty good and you can run an organization through it.

And none of them can hang with MS Office for features or function.

But if your just doing simple spreadsheets and some basic documents 🍎 products work.

@pimoore I’m a big fan of Numbers as well. For my projects it is actually more powerful than Excel.

@ronguest I hate Excel, though credit where it’s due: Word takes the cake for my level of despise.

@jack some one posted on Twitter how to mute the green squares on Twitter. My life improved immediately.

@pratik numbers so you can do things like categories - monthly versus annual etc etc - but yes - notes as a list is fine

@timapple we’ll agree to disagree on google sheets/docs etc … understand cross platform world.

@pimoore especially if you're not a spreadsheet person

@lukemperez Told my husband to do this the other day and he is much happier with his feed now.

@JohnPhilpin Bobby does that too. Plus you can look up splits by categories (streaming, writing, etc.) I mean, any spreadsheet app or notes app with BoE calculation will work.

@pratik but it’s all one at a time - import and export of data would help - it all seemed to me to sit slowly putting stuff in and not getting anything out - there is an AI soln in the Us tgat scans your bank statement and highlights a summary in one go - much more useful - but not tried it - seems to me that I already have all the data I just need a layer to explain it

@kimberlyhirsh it’s the little things.

@JohnPhilpin sounds like a plan, my opinion may change if I ever get a mac someday.