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- Your Local Library and Libby for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks
- Bookshop for purchasing books and supporting your favorite bookstore
- UpNext for read-it-later (note: I will likely move to Readwise Reader once I get through the waitlist)
- Readwise.io to automatically manage & resurface highlights and notes from all of the above and more
- Storygraph for tracking books
- Inkl for lower-hassle news from a variety of sources
- Bandcamp for trying and buying music
- MusicHarbor for finding out about new music releases for bands who have made the poor choice to not be on Bandcamp
- iTunes match to make your music collection available across multiple devices
- Marvis Pro for listening to that library on iOS
- Plex for serving up your whole media library and Plexamp for an incredible listening experience wherever you’ve made that library available (note: I’m looking for Plex friends!)
- Last.fm for tracking listening, including from Marvis and Plex (above) or from Web Scrobbler in the browser
- JustWatch for seeing where a show or movie is currently available and tracking watchlists/watching without losing your place when a show moves to another provider
- Overcast for podcasts
- Craft for fun notetaking, writing, shared documents, and impromptu websites
- Fastmail for email, calendar, contacts
- Micro.blog for blogging, microblogging, social media that’s not a dumpster fire, and (optionally, additionally) POSSE, a newsletter service, read-it-later service, bookshelf service, podcasting service, and video service
- Mars Edit 4 for revising, tagging, managing, or deleting micro.blog posts or importing/adding a backdated post
- NextDNS for blocking a lot of bad stuff (including trackers and ads)
- Signal for direct messaging and calls
- DuckDuckGo for search that respects you
- A digital password vault
- Multi-Factor Authentication for everywhere that supports it, especially for your main email provider that all your other accounts are tied to (note: avoid text messages as the 2nd factor whenever there are better options)
- A couple hard drives and an alternate location (such as a family-member’s home or a safe deposit box) for periodic swapping of backups outside of your cloud storage
- Parcel for tracking packages and deliveries
- CloudMounter for accessing cloud storage on your Mac
- Magnet for turning OSX into a tiling window manager
- Vivaldi for a full-feature independent browser that still works on most of the Internet
- Levels for learning about how different foods, activities, and events affect your glucose and health
- A periodic home cleaning service
- A personal trainer to help with physical therapy and fitness
📑 Sunday Quote, three versions:
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📑 Sunday Quote
Super-excited to be joining the Readwise beta today for the Reader app. I’ll post more about it after I get onboarded! 📚📑
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A story in three parts
2021 Recommendations - Products and Services
Reading 📚📑
Further reading: 2021 Reading Recommendations
Listening 🎙🎶 and Watching 📺
Further reading: 2021 Watching Recommendations, 2021 Listening Recommendations
Writing and Communication
Security and Privacy
Other
Luxuries That I Wish Weren’t
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📚 Sunday Quote
📑 This quote from today’s highlight review reminded me of @frostedechoes’s recent post
Sunday Quote 📚
Have you tried this method? 🔒
📑 Sunday Quote
May this be a reminder to us over the holidays and always.