Die Hard and Trading Places are my favorite Christmas movies.
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and Hawkeye is my favorite Christmas TV show. We watched it again this year so I guess it will become tradition.
Lethal Weapon too. Thatās a Christmas movie the same way Die Hard is, lolā¦
yep, thats a good one too.
Just had my printer turned off because I didnāt pay HPs subscription.
I guess I should have read the fine print. 
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Lolā¦. Happy Holidays!
Keeping:
RevoUninstaller Pro Portable
Simple
Parcel
Keep It Mobile
AppleCare iPhone Xr
Gandi Domain
HC Richardson Substack
Jared Sexton Substack
Local Small Newspaper
SoftMaker NX Home
Democracy Journal
Ars [Technica] Pro
FastMail (Personal and work mail, website hosting and WebDAV) Edit: was able today to combine personal as alias into work user so I now have one user, not two!
Public TV Station
Donāt want to, but will anyway:
Costco
AAA
Not anymore:
Airmail
Bear
DEVONthink Pro (gave away license)
DEVONthink To Go
Drafts Pro
Keep It Mac v1x (Bought v2 outright; it replaces Diarly, Bear, UpNote and Drafts)
Diarly
My Daily Office
Scanner Pro Plus
Tweetbot (and deleted Twitter account)
UpNote
Stopped using TE years ago after I found Typinator. Smile stated charging too much for too little.
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Despite cutting subscriptions last year, my macOS/iOS specific subscription list has increased. I think we are a hamster on a wheel that we are never going to escape. 
2023 Winners
Goodnotes $9.99/year
Drafts $19.99/year
Logic Pro iPad $49.00/year
Final Cut Pro iPad $49.00/year
Copy 'Em $6.99/year
AirMail $9.99/year
Carrot $39.99/year
Fiery Feeds $4.99/year
DayOne $24.99/year
TextExpander $20.00/year
1Password $35.88/year
Fantastical $45.60/year
Backblaze $198.00/year
Adobe Creative $15.99/month
Apple Music $16.99/month
SiriusXM $6.00/month
Subscriptions that I have canceled:
Overcast (really donāt see the appeal. Downcast is the superior app)
Radarscope
Ivory
AppleOne
The subscriptions that are in danger of being canceled are:
Carrot
Fantastical (but I need to find a calendar with the same display on iPhone first)
DayOne (cool app but I do not journal and still have not found a use for it)
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How to do get on with Airmail? I switched to Outlook a few months ago, I donāt see any improvements from the Airmail devs?
6.1.7 is in beta. Donāt know when itās supposed to arrive. Nothing is definite in Discord. Medium blog is dead since 2018.
Airmail does the 4 things I need. I can send emails quickly into devonthink, omnifocus, and fantastical. I can also hit the space bar and create a perfect pdf of the email for sharing to messages, etc. No email client comes close to this.
I know Airmail is supposed to do a lot of other things (snooze, etc) but I donāt use any of them so cannot vouch for whether or not they work. The things I need, it does great so he gets my $$.
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By the looks of it you are choosing to use best-in-class software, and thatās going to cost money no matter the pricing model.
To get off the wheel you just* have to choose other software that is not always striving to stay best-in-class.
- Itās a nasty word. Please take this comment as tongue-in-cheek, with some truth behind it.
Suggesting a few things that might nullify the need for a few subscriptions:
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Use Obsidian Canvas instead of GoodNotes. I bought goodnotes a while ago and never used it, but still got the upgrade
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Drafts > Apple Notes (it has become really good) or UpNote (superb one time payment app)
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Use Raycase or Alfred clipboard manager
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AirMail > Apple Mail or Gmail
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Carrot > default weather app works
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FF > Reeder or NetNewsWire
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Dayone > I think Apple will offer journaling in the iOS 17
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1PW > Bitwarden
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Fantastical > Apple calendar has built-in natural language. Use it with Raycast and you can get the same functionality as Fantastical
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Backblaze > use Hazel to backup data to Google Drive. Backup here is to compress the files and put rename them with dates. that will create version history + use Time Machine
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Apple Music > Get into a family plan or move to YT or Spotify with the family plan. $3.6/month
There might be very niche features you might using with these apps but sometimes a bit of AppleScript and other automations can get the stuff done.
Thatās actually a lot of money $81/month for app subscription at least for me lol. Iām very happy with my setup and have so much stuff automated. I pay $6/month for iCloud and YT combined, rest of everything is one-time purchases made years ago (Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Typinator, Things). Being a developer helps as well, plus ChatGPT helps with so many script these days lol.
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My subscriptions list:
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You are correct, there are ways to shave off the dollars but I have tried nearly every app you listed and none of them measured up. Some of my biggest annoyances:
Reeder is where rss goes to die. It has pathetic share options.
Same with Apple Mail. No share options.
Calendar on the iPhone just shows useless dots in month mode. I want to see words. How can this be considered useful in any way?
not only best in class but so far ahead of the other options, it does not even make sense to change. Itās an obvious downgrade to switch to the āsecond bestā apps in nearly every case. 
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I just canceled my Prime membership. Had it for close to 20 years (Ā±). Letās see how it goes.
Iām left with
Drafts
Office 365
DTTG
Apple; Fitness, Cloud, Music (Will switch to Spotify) and TV.
My subscriptions are currently:
Keeping:
- Apple One: Keeping for the Secure Video, also use Arcade, Music, TV+, maybe storage.
- The Times of London: For my Dad
- Due: Keeps me on top of chores and bills
- Relay: More Power Users
- HackingWithSwift+: To support him really
- Masterclass: Superb series of videos that my wife is getting loads out of as she takes up writing.
- Apple Developer Program: Keeps my apps in the store.
- Wordpress: Keeping a webpage alive
Dropping?
- 1Password: I love it in many ways, but this yearās Apple improvements might be enough for me.
- Weather Radar Live: Best radar map for my area, though Appleās is getting better and this is getting worse.
- Disney+ Hotstar: Was great value for the first year, but lessening now and insists on an OTP every time we open it, so too annoying.
- Edit: Iām going to keep this: (Backblaze: Still good value, but Iām really thinking of getting new drives and managing this myself.)
- Day One: Currently on free trial and waiting to see if I continue or opt for Appleās version
Gone:
- Netflix. Iāll sign up for a month occasionally.
- Proton: Very good in many ways, but I went too far and lost the purpose I had: I use Proton Mail for banking, so when I went all in I ended up with too much email there. Back to their free tier. Also, decided I donāt need a VPN.
Generally I am sticking to non-subscription software so that I donāt have either (a) a large ongoing bill when I retire, or (b) a need to downgrade my software when I retire.
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I just edited my post to say Iāll keep Backblaze. When my current drives fail Iāll reconsider, but for now itās not worth upgrading my own on-site backup solution.
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