![]() I just need to add and see events on my calendar. It is a beautiful app, the natural language parsing is, well, fantastic, and the feature set robust. The stock weather app provides that so I don’t pay a subscription for my weather app. What I NEED is accurate weather data and forecast. It is a great app., I like it but I don’t NEED the customizations. An example is an app like Carrot Weather. ![]() When deciding whether or not to pay a subscription I start by asking “do I NEED the features this app offers?” If I don’t NEED those features, though I may prefer them, I usually opt for the “good enough” non-subscription app. Each individual has to decide what represents good and wise stewardship of his or her finances, including a reasonable budget for app subscriptions and/or purchases. The issue is the proliferation of subscriptions, which is in effect “renting” the application. ![]() I doubt anyone begrudges developers a proper return for their labor. My sense is that, at least in this forum, there’s not an objection to subscriptions in the abstract … As a practical matter … there are limits to the number of subscriptions a person can reasonably maintain. The subscription I’ve been paying for ($9.99/year, if memory serves) is for syncing between macOS and iOS. If I need to extract annotations from a PDF, PDFExpert lets me export those to Markdown fairly and the Mac app for Bookends is a paid update about every two years if you want new features what you already have keeps working. (Their prices aren’t unreasonable, but I already have +/- 25 GB in Dropbox thanks to referrals from the early days, and I’ve got 2 TB in iCloud. Using linked files + PDFExpert means I don’t get Zotero’s new annotation features, but the upside is that I get reliable sync without having to buy additional storage from Zotero. (Thankfully this means I don’t need to use Zotfile for directly managing PDFs on the iPad, which was the part I always found fiddly and annoying.) I can still add notes to a source in Zotero, and those notes will sync just fine. That puts the PDFs in a place that I can access from PDFExpert, no matter what device I’m on. Because the iOS version doesn’t play well with synced files, I still need to use Zotfile to automatically save PDFs to a folder in my iCloud Drive (Google Drive or Dropbox would work just as well).
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