This week brought several changes to my digital toolkit, starting with some frustration with Fabric.so as a bookmarking tool. Curious about alternatives, I revisited Raindrop.io after nearly nine months away. After reinstalling it, importing an old backup, and testing it thoroughly, I was extremely impressed with how smoothly and quickly it functions. The bookmarking process is exceptional: one click and it’s saved. If needed, you can organize items into specific collections and add AI-generated tags, or simply leave them in the Unsorted section. Everything feels much more fluid and faster than in Fabric.

This experience convinced me to keep Fabric.so but deactivate its browser extension while I return to Raindrop.io as my primary bookmarking tool. For visual inspiration, I continue to use MyMind, though I’m still maintaining a dual approach by saving content to Fabric as well. Despite its flaws, MyMind brings me so much joy that I’ve abandoned my plans to cancel my subscription.

I also removed my RSS feeds and newsletter subscriptions from Readwise Reader this week and reactivated Feedbin, which provides a more pleasant experience for scanning through information noise. More relevant content gets saved to Readwise, while less important items go to Raindrop.io. Feedbin serves as my initial entry point for the vast information flow. Redirecting newsletters was easily accomplished by modifying rules in Gmail. This setup works well for me; the cost is reasonable, and my subscription is still active.

Additionally, I’ve increased my use of GetRecall, which I find quite cool for saving interesting items, mainly links, and automatically building a self-tagging knowledge graph. It’s primarily a fun experiment, but one that’s enjoyable, inexpensive, and runs in parallel without being critical if it were to disappear.

This week I participated in the Podcast Magic beta and am excited about its future development. My first impression was truly magical: you take a screenshot in Spotify or Apple Podcasts while a podcast is playing, showing which podcast it is and the current timestamp. The app accesses your Camera Roll, scans for podcast screenshots, and somehow magically recognizes which podcast and timestamp it is. It then creates a transcript of that podcast section and makes one-minute snippets with transcription. Future plans include integration with Sublime App.

Currently, the experience is somewhat mixed, as interpretations aren’t always perfect and strange translation errors occur. German-language podcasts are often partially translated to English, creating an unhelpful mishmash.

I’m not particularly fond of either Spotify or Apple Podcasts as podcast players, and since I’m increasingly frustrated with Snipd, it would be fantastic if Podcast Magic could eventually work with Castro.fm. That would make it a true Snipd replacement for me, as Snipd has become bloated with features like video and discovery functions that don’t interest me. I’d prefer a simple app with good queue management.

I also reinstalled the Spark Mail app in preparation for meetings and was impressed by how well its meeting transcription and especially its summary function worked in a first test during a meeting with a new potential client. I’m considering using this app more frequently.

On the email front, I reactivated cora.computer, the AI automation tool for Gmail from the team at every.to. I found it quite cool, then thought yesterday it was creating too much noise with the automatic summaries and paused it. However, that same day I missed having the summaries and didn’t want each individual ticket notification cluttering my inbox, so I reactivated it. Now I’m happily enjoying the automated summaries and a cleaner inbox again.