I like your list. Superhuman is great, but the price is steep.
If you work in education, Superhuman $10 per month.
Once you sign up, tell your personal customer agent and they will refund $20 and only charge $10 going forward. I came from SaneBox, and that cost me more, as I wanted to use 4 email accounts. Superhuman doesn’t charge per account; you can add unlimited accounts, so it works out better for me and I appreciate all the additional features that Sanebox doesn’t have like read receipts and AI summaries/generation.
1PW, Bear, Eagle Filer, The Archive, Tinderbox, ScanSnap and PDF Expert.
Fortunately for my productivity needs I rely on my Bullet Journal in a physical book. It’s impossible for it to go away but if it did I’d really be in a world of pain and suffering. This notebook is really my external working memory and I have been managing pretty good only with it.
I don’t use 1PW but it’s probably pretty easy. Just search their docs for export instructions. It’s nice to know that if some glitch borks whatever password app you’re currently using, you can still access your passwords.
Of course most apps can be replaced with a proper notice, export, and backup functionality but it would be very disruptive and frustrating for me to replace these:
YNAB - I don’t know how to function financially without it.
1Password - everything else feels like a downgrade.
Economist - I do not consume news articles surfaced by algorithms or on social media and that helps immensely with controlling anxiety and depression. Economist provides the right balance of all topics for me.
Proton Mail - Tutanota and Skiff are just too clunky.
Agenda - No other End-to-End encrypted replacement for OneNote (for work/project notes).
Day One - every time I have tried to move away from it, I just end up stopping journaling.
No, I’m too lazy for that. Although I always use a hardcover notebook because I have already spilled some watermelon water over it by accident and learned my lesson there. The hardcover also helps with protecting it from other damages. I also always carry around a men bag where I keep my phone, wallet and a bunch of other things, this one works as my third arm I suppose; inside it I always keep my notebook so it is always protected.
The only time my notebook is kind of unprotected is when I’m working with my Macbook and I have it open next to me in the case I need to check my daily log or rapid log something.
In any case, if I write an appointment it goes to the calendar or if something is really important or inspirational then it goes to Bear or The Archive. I still have to see if there is a case for an app like reminders or things in my daily use, in the meantime I’m fine without them.
GeForce Now is how apple silicon Mac users play AAA pc games. I play my Steam pc games like Forza Horizon 5, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and Planet Zoo (which also works in Crossover now) on my M3 Max. So yeah, it’s on my critical list but it isn’t “work related”.
I am waiting for Matter to be more open to Zapier.
There are multiple SoundCloud accounts that I have to monitor for a project, rather than check the accounts or enable notifications, at any given time, it can be up to 20 accounts.
Zapier is integrated with SoundCloud and Omnifocus, when a new upload hits, it comes as a task for me in my Omnifocus.
I used to use Zapier that PDF’ed stuff from between Pocket and Feedly, but it broke so many times I gave up on it.
I am in the process of switching fully over to Matter for my reading material, and keeping Zapier workflows through Pocket
I was just about to reply and say I’m surprised at how few rss readers are on this list.
Sticking to the “world of pain” terms of OP:
Reeder (I hate email, I want all updates in RSS and I’ve used Reeder for years. My setup has been fine-tuned to perfection )
DevonThink (I have nothing original to say, it’s got my whole life in it)
NotePlan (it took me a long time to find a task manager I liked - this forum was with me for a lot of my experimenting - but NotePlan and I clicked almost immediately)
There are others I’d be very irritated to lose, but that isn’t what OP asked about so I will leave it there!
That surprised me, too. My digital life without RSS would be horrible. I don’t know how people suffer through that. Talking about suffering, I forgot one app above:
Wipr
An adblocker is also mission critical for me.
@Pupsino Do you also use DevonTHINK‘s RSS capabilities?
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