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Times are tough for many people, and with a cost-of-living crisis in the UK, a lot of people are cutting back. While things are not that hard personally, I am always looking to cut out unnecessary costs, so here is what I have cut so far in 2022.
(1) Qobuz £12.99 pcm— It is just too expensive for what it is and nowhere near as nice an experience to use as Deezer, my favourite music platform. I tried it for some months, and sometimes, even after a good try, an app or service just doesn’t make a good impression on you. Maybe in the future I will loop back around to it, but not soon, that is for sure.
(2) Tidal £9.99 to £19.99 pcm — For very similar reasons as Qobuz, this just doesn’t gel with me. It is obviously very similar to Spotify, only more stylish and definitely the cool kid of the playground. The sound is fantastic, obviously, which puts Spotify to shame, but in reality, I am only going to keep one music streaming service and Tidal doesn’t do music discovery anywhere near as well as Deezer to my taste.
(3) Craft Docs $6 pcm — This really is a very good app. But something kept me coming back to Notion while I was using it. Yet more recently, Capacities has taken the place of Craft, for sure, and a large part of Notion for me. Craft has kept growing and expanding with features, so I am sure that I will pick it back up in the future, but for now, it is a goodbye.
(4) MyMind $11.99 pcm— The has been firmly replaced by Raindrop. It is a brilliant idea to have a cascading wall of stuff which is automatically tagged by AI, but all too often, the AI would not find something I definitely would have expected it to find. Yes, you can manually tag, but when the service is as…
