jack
jack

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.

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ridwan
ridwan

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

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jack
jack

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

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@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

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jack
jack

@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.

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@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

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jack
jack

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

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jack
jack

@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 😀

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pratik
pratik

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

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jack
jack

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

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jack
jack

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

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pimoore
pimoore

@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. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂

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pimoore
pimoore

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

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hjertnes
hjertnes

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

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

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jack
jack

@JohnPhilpin Good to know, thanks!

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@jack I feel so much better about myself … thankyou

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@JohnPhilpin it's annoying to see all the posts

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pimoore
pimoore

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

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

Same for Keynote and Pages.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

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pratik
pratik

@pimoore Numbers is overkill, no? I mean, it's an Excel equivalent (not quite but still). Otherwise even Notes.app will do 🙃 @jack @JohnPhilpin

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ronguest
ronguest

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

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pimoore
pimoore

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

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lukemperez
lukemperez

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

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

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

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@pimoore especially if you're not a spreadsheet person

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KimberlyHirsh
KimberlyHirsh

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

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pratik
pratik

@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.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@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

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lukemperez
lukemperez

@kimberlyhirsh it’s the little things.

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