What are your “favorite no longer used apps?”

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Why Raycast? Thank you

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For Raycast AI, rich community extensions like Apple Reminders (has natural language input and AI-powered parsing), constant innovation, more active community and educational video updates.

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Raycast AI is subscription based. Not included for Raycast free Plan subscribers

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Well this weekend I tried Todoist, enticed by the new calendar integration thingy, but decided -again- it is not for me. Not sure why, it is as good as ever, natural language input is amazing, but the combo Calendar + Reminders is enough for what my needs. Everything else is cognitive overload.

How did it go for you?

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Hello from India :wave:
Longtime reader and finally decided to register and join the MPU community

On the topic of favourite no longer used apps - my vote would be for 2Do App (www.2doapp.com)

Excellent app in terms of flexibility but has lacked any sort of “real” development in last 3/4 years
The developer had blogged back in 2021 that new version was very close, but looks like it never materialised

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Just went back to Todoist :disguised_face:

The Microsoft task manager (To Do) is fine. I’d even say it looks nicer than Todoist. But it introduces a few issues I can’t get around.

  1. It forces me to split my tasks into different apps. To Do is not fun to use on mobile or Mac, and not all features are in all versions of the app. That makes it tough for daily personal use. For example, the limited natural language parsing in Windows was not an option on iOS or Mac – though they may have fixed this. I also don’t like putting personal tasks into a work-managed app.
  2. I can’t 100% trust the natural language processing. After years of using Todoist I’m used to typing something like “Call Braveheart, Monday at 9am” and then not thinking of it again. In To Do, I’d be working along during the day and see a task called “Call Braveheart Monday at 9am” as a task with no due date or time. The natural language “didn’t take” – which happened when moving too fast. And it would often incorporate some of the natural language processing into the task name even though I had the setting to remove pertinent details from the task name. e.g. Call Braveheart Monday at 9am would sometimes resolve to “Call Braveheart Monday at” as the task name. Just weird junk like that.
  3. The Todoist apps are faster, smoother, more consistent across the board.
  4. Not sure this is a feature or time sink, but being able to slice and dice the tasks into filters, priorities, kanban boards etc – works well. I’m not a task on my calendar/linked to calendar guy at all – things get too busy. But Todoist’s extra bells and whistles are pretty slick.

I knew I’d be back. :wink:

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I used this app for years. Loved it, then it went subscription and kept using it. Eventually I went back to the iOS calendar. And stopped using this one cause I didn’t want to pay for it anymore.

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Here comes my - probably incomplete - list:

  • 1Password (replaced with self-hosted Bitwarden/Vaultwarden)
  • Affinity suite (I am not a huge image editor, the Pixelmator apps can do everything I need)
  • Alfred (replaced with Raycast)
  • BusyCal (replaced with Fantastical)
  • Carrot Weather (replaced with Apple Weather)
  • Deliveries (replaced with Parcel)
  • MarsEdit (I write my drafts in Drafts and the rest directly in WordPress)
  • NetNewsWire (replaced with Readwise Reader)
  • Safari (replaced with Arc)
  • TextExpander (replaced with Keyboard Maestro)

Currently, I am playing a lot with the Capacities app and there are many things I like. Perhaps (but only perhaps for now) Obsidian is the next candidate for this list.

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Loved Talking Moose.

Funny, how back in the day, we had so few resources, and yet so many little fun apps. Remember Ram Doubler, and Conflict Catcher, Burning Toast… We now have all the power we could (ever) want, and yet, all the whimsy has gone. No more Talking Moose. No more Startup Sounds, or making the trash say something when you emptied it… No more hidden splash screens to find - easter egg hunting was always so much fun.

I miss all the little stuff that made computing fun. I know, lots of bugs, and many would cause the Mac to crash… but still. It was fun to find the cat in Photoshop, and then click his nose to hear him burp.

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Oh my… having flashbacks to MEMMAKER…