RE OmniFocus to Apple Reminders, I am seriously trying to do this myself. OmniFocus is a great tool but has grown more convoluted over the years. I am of the age where I just want lists and limited customisation options to force me to use the tool as-is.
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I am generally trying to de-Amazon myself. I started with ebooks, don’t buy any of them from Amazon anymore. As most of the books I buy are profession related (Information Security) I tend to get these direct from publishers, e.g. packt, O’Reilly, where they are DRM free and at least in PDF if not ePub as well. Humble Bundle is also a great place for tech books (and software and games) if they have a relevant ‘bundle’ on offer. It is a pay-what-you-want donation with a minimum, but the offers can be worthwhile.
For an Audible replacement, I am trialling libro.fm which seems to be a more ethical option. A very similar service and cost to Audible, and you get to directly support a local bookshop of your choice, well, from a list of those which are participating. The iOS app seems to work so far, only have the 1 audiobook but works as expected with all the necessary features.
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For people who don’t need all the features of a dedicated clipboard manager, then perhaps it’s worth mentioning that macOS Tahoe now includes a (more basic) clipboard manager in Spotlight:
cmd-spaceto bring up the spotlight dialoguecmd-4to move to the clipboard pane.
There are some limitations but it may be enough for many.
HTHS
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If you’re using this GTD style, the one missing piece with Reminders is the ability to open a parent Project when you’re looking at the related Next Action in a smart list. If they had this I’d give it a serious go.
Its kind of an odd oversight, given that Reminders gets quite a lot of new features every year and isn’t just a basic list manager any more.
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Noteplan rocks. By the way - it’s part of Setapp, so not $150 a year.
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Curious how you like the customer domains solution with iCloud?
I’m super impressed so far. Everything was automatic, no messing with DNS settings, Apple set it up for the domain then I had to configure for each account. Working great for everyone.
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I’ll limit it to recently
- Obsidian to Joplin + Bookstack, but mostly Joplin.
- Reminders to Omnifocus after 1 year trial of Reminders.
I feel like my app setup is pretty , minus some video upscaling and local LLM apps that I plan on adding after I finish migrating notes to Joplin.
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Fastmail introduced their own desktop app this morning, so I might switch to that from FMail2.
(Haven’t tried it yet…)
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Not a confession I thought I would make here but I recently switched to a Pixel phone for a solid month and then switched back to an iPhone. Bascially to save my marriage. 
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Smart(phone) choice! 
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I feel Android is more functional (if the ecosystem aspect did not exist).
I wish we have clipboard, keyboard number row and universal back control/gesture in iOS.
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Recently
Bartender → Barbee → Bartender
Obsidian → Tana → Obsidian
I know all the controversy with Bartender, but it works better than the other options on Tahoe.
Tana showed a lot of promise, but the subset of its feature set that I use has stagnated without much improvement over the last 6 months, so it’s now on my “don’t resubscribe” list.
Apps that remain solidly in my daily toolset
Curio
DEVONthink
Drafts
MarginNote 4
App that are are the way out
Tinderbox (owner is making it into an AI front end, it seems, making hopes of someday seeing a modernized user experience unlikely)
TheBrain (new version 15 is a rewrite without a purpose, from the user perspective, which deprecated several important features)
Katie
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I switched from FMail3 to Fastmail this afternoon. It looks nearly identical. I’d guess because both were just putting a construct around the web view.
Just the minor… correction… major annoyance of having to launch Mail just to set Fastmail as my default client. It started downloading mail (I have my accounts configured because in the past some processes have assumed Apple Mail) and wouldn’t quit. So I force quit the monstrosity.
Indeed.
The Fastmail “app” looks a bit better on the top (UI elements in a single top bar instead of “2 separate bars”; no theme gradient mismatch between bars).
Unfortunately, the Fastmail app is an Electron app, whereas FMail is using native technology. However, I could use passkeys in the Fastmail app, but not in FMail…
I think I’ll be using the official app (so I switched;) going forward.
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A weird one. Yesterday I had an episode of atrial fibrillation, which is where your heart goes a bit nuts. The Apple Watch ecg app detects it.
It turns out that you can also just check your pulse using your fingers on your wrist. If it’s going nuts, it might well be afib. If it’s a gentle beat it’s probably not.
My wife is a doctor and she got me to feel my pulse wine not was going nuts and then, later, after the episode had finished, again. There’s a huge and obvious difference.
I’m not giving medical advice, but maybe just check out your pulse now to see what normal feel like.
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I’m not really swapping these, but if it ever happens again I’ll do both.
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I hope you’re ok now. Good thing you have a doctor in the house!
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I installed the Bartender beta, and it made a big mess. In my opinion, the beta shouldn’t have been released. I’ve been waiting to reinstall it when it came out of beta, but maybe I won’t need it at all.
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Bartender Beta on Tahoe Beta meant Beta-squared problems. The radical change to the macOS menu bar forced a major redesign of Bartender that they couldn’t figure out and implement fast enough.
My sympathies lie with Bartender, but, sadly, they lost me as a customer.
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Thunderbird → emClient
Todoist → Things → Reminders (over several years)
Bartender → Ice
NotePlan for daily notes that I used to do in DEVONthink but still use DT
InDesign → Word (I love ID and used it for over 20 years and I hate word but couldn’t justify the cost anymore)
Textexpander → Alfred (quite a while ago)
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