11/3/2023 0 Comments Mailtags tranfer to new computer![]() However, with the recent changes to Dropbox and macOS (and not wanting another subscription), I moved back to iCloud a few months ago. I returned to Dropbox in 2021 because of syncing issues with iCloud. I don’t love Mail, but it’s familiar and customisable enough. But my mail needs aren’t complex and I already have the iCloud+ subscription, so I transferred my domains and set up with Apple Mail. This was hard because I loved Spark (before the update) and Fastmail. ![]() Both are searchable with Spotlight/Alfred. Notes, weblinks, screenshots, annotations and some temporary or transient files go into Notes app. All files, including pdfs, spreadsheets, presentations, docs, assets etc go into the file system. I’ve also (finally!) landed on a better system for notes vs files, which has frustrated me for years. The ProNotes.app integration adds some additional niceties. AN has grown up a lot recently (while maintaining speed and simplicity) and with the macOS integration and upcoming linking in Sonoma, I can’t see much benefit in anything else. I end up not creating many new notes in other apps because of the friction. There’s something about AN that keeps me returning every time. I also feel more secure when using it and I’m not sure why (perhaps the use of the password and secret key). I know my way around 1Password, the autofill is more reliable, and it handles a variety of “secrets” better than other password managers I’ve tried. I tried Secrets to eliminate another subscription but I’ve come back to 1Password after a couple of months. Searching Apple Notes is better in Alfred too - Raycast only searches the note title whereas Alfred searches the note content. I don’t know which algorithms each app uses, but Alfred more often displays the results I want/need to see. ![]() What I do know for sure is that file searching is still better in Alfred. I can’t tell if it’s just me, but Raycast takes just fraction of a second longer to launch every time. Raycast uses 386 mb of space compared to Alfred’s 34 mb (I didn’t test memory but my guess is that Raycast would use more). I experimented with Raycast more than once and after about 3 to 6 months, returned to Alfred. Raycast is slick and there’s no denying that its extensions are much better than the workflows in Alfred. There is something about a familiar app that I have used and loved for years that feels like a warm blanket. Recently, I realised that I’ve become more productive with apps that are familiar to me, or ones that I abandoned for newer apps with promises of more features and increased productivity. I’ve been on a journey the last year or so with app-switching and not being able to settle on an app (this is particularly noticeable with workhorse productivity apps like notes, to-do, email etc).
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