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Posted by Hugh
May 7, 2018 at 12:32 PM
Re Dr Andus’ post about subscriptions above: various applications exist that can help to track subscriptions - for example Dues (http://alexdenk.eu/mywork/dues.html). My experience is with macOS and iOS only, but I feel certain there must be choices on the other platforms. And of course there’s always the option of a spreadsheet programme.
Of course also, these applications only solve half the problem. The other half tends to involve self-discipline! But I have found them moderately helpful, to the extent that I have recently been able to juggle various subs, cancelling some and signing up for others as replacements.
Posted by Dr Andus
May 7, 2018 at 01:29 PM
Hugh wrote:
Re Dr Andus’ post about subscriptions above: various applications exist
>that can help to track subscriptions - for example Dues
>(http://alexdenk.eu/mywork/dues.html). My experience is with macOS and
>iOS only, but I feel certain there must be choices on the other
>platforms. And of course there’s always the option of a spreadsheet
>programme.
Thanks for the suggestion. So far I’ve kept a list in WorkFlowy, but I haven’t been disciplined enough to check how well I tracked the expiry and renewal dates in Google Calendar. I will go with the spreadsheet idea and create a separate Google Sheet for this.
But there is also an insiduous aspect to the way subscriptions just accumulate across the various devices and users in a family…
Posted by Dr Andus
May 7, 2018 at 01:32 PM
P.S. And there are also quasi-subscriptions, such as the annual “upgrade protection” schemes.
But in those cases at least you don’t lose access to the software if you decide not to pay annually.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 7, 2018 at 02:38 PM
Regarding subscriptions: It is one thing when a new piece of software goes subscription from the start. You know what you’re agreeing to when you adopt the application. It’s a whole other thing when an application you’ve bought goes to a subscription (i.e Ulysses, DayOne) and now you have to pay to reliably continue to use it—I say reliably, because you can still use the software, you just don’t get any fixes or OS updates. I wrote this elsewhere, but it is like buying a car and then being told you have to lease it if you want to get its tires rotated and its oil changed.
Steve Z.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 8, 2018 at 08:58 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>At the same time it’s preventing me from considering other purchases or
>subscriptions. So the industry is shooting itself in the foot to some
>extent.
Indeed, in more ways than one:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5164/0/the-cloud-shooting-itself-on-the-foot-dispatchiocc-and-docom