Second Quarter Subscription Showdown - 2023 Edition
Embarrassing amount of subscriptions in my world, I'm sad to say. I break them up into fiscal quarters and review them ahead of time to decide whether or not to send them to the block.
Currently the only monthly subscription that is proved unworthy at the moment is Audible due to my backlog of credits. If this continues, it's getting slaughtered. We are roadtripping across America soon, so that'll definitely eat up some credits but it is still the point where there isn't anything on there I want to hear.
April
- Pinboard 🟢 Actually paid thru next year, but doesn't matter it would be renewed without a second-guess. I have been been a disloyal little snob and been cheating on it with Raindrop for a majority of the last year, but that solely because of how elegant highlighting is with Raindrop.
- GeneratePress 💔 Sending to the block. My near two-decade long relationship with WordPress has come to a close and so there is no longer a need for GeneratePress. I've always enjoyed it over the years, but to be honest I never really understood most of what it was all capable of because I never really took the time to learn it. Documentation seemed minimal and I never found much of a community for it to engage with others about it. Whatever it's over.
May
- DayOne 🟡 Really on the fence about this one. I don't know why but the entire time I was on Android, (well the later years I suppose) I was always envious of not having DayOne. This was probably me just being influenced by all things Mac being great. So when I jumped to iPhone it was one of the first things I got into. It is super neat and everything but I don't really use it all that often. There was a HUGE spike in usage after I got my Apple Watch but that sort of tapered off as well. It served as a sort of "private Instagram" and "voice memo journal" at its peak. The one thing I really like about it tho is the metadata that came with the posts. Like I said, I'm on the fence about it.
- Drafts 💔 I definitely use it everyday. However I have absolutely no use for what you need to pay for it for. It's great and another piece of software that I certainly do not use to it's fullest extent. Mac people love the hell out of it.
- Obsidian Sync 🟢 Without question. 100%. This is right up there with internet service itself for me.
- Digital Blasphemy 🟡 Another one we're very unsure about. I was a member for years, but while married it was deemed an unnecessary expense, but picked it back up again when I got divorced. Mr. Ryan Bliss is by far the unquestionable king of desktop wallpapers, but he is so much more than that. He's a fully-decorated artist, and has been doing so long before it was hip and cool to be one. But as the times have changed, I feel like his mind is more in the NFT world. Which, if I were him I totally would be as well. You're pulling a lot more money fucking around with that than you would relying on yearly subscriptions. Plus, I feel like us desktop users are getting pushed out to into the street to live behind dumpsters, so you've have to wonder how long a timeline that sort of path has for him. He's always been forward-thinking, I mean, just take a look at some of his art. It's tough, I remember him talking about his kids being born and now they are in college. Time flies. I'll probably stick around because of that history.
Anyway, that's it. Quarter two - all wrapped up.