# I decided to cancel my subscription for Ulysses. I thought if it's too easy to put it straight back on then it's not a proper test.
The current subscription period ends in three days so that's when the real test starts.
If I don't miss it then thanks, it's been fun. If, on the other hand, I find I can't live without it, I can always subscribe again.
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# Now that I'm comfortable with the Reeder app I'm seriously considering moving from Feedly to Feedbin. Okay, so it's $5 a month where I'm not currently paying for Feedly but, since clearing out my subscriptions a little while back, I'm close to the 100 feed limit for free accounts again - a limit that never used to be there.
I could opt to pay for Feedly but it's a bit more expensive and, despite the plan I'd want being quoted as monthly, it's billed annually and I don't want it all going out in one go.
I'm also not entirely happy with the approach Feedly has been taking recently so would prefer to give my money to a service that does one thing and does it well. Feedbin looks to fit that bill.
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# Santa's workshop is going to be one elf's quota short this year. Think of the children!
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# I've deliberately tried to avoid posting anything about Facebook or Twitter lately even though there have been numerous opportunities to do so.
The way I look at it, although I have deleted my accounts on both networks, if I keep going back to them, focusing on them, then I'm not free of their influence and still letting them interfere in my life.
It's interesting to see what's happening in that space but that's where it should end.
My Facebook account should be gone now and Twitter should be unrecoverable as of tomorrow so there's no more need for me to pay attention.
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# And after a couple of weeks of monitoring for any rogue mails I have finally deleted my Gmail account as well.
@nitinkhanna I think the cache plugin was causing a problem so I’ve disabled it.
I use Drafts 5 (beta) for just about everything now.
@colinwalker correction - your blog just took some time to load... :)
@colinwalker Drafts has a beta? Is it iOS 11 only? How can I get on it?
And yeah, caching plugins play silly games.
@colinwalker yer blog is down. Also, what do you use other than Ulysses?
@nitinkhanna Pinged you a mail ?
@colinwalker How do you like Ulysses?
It's an awesome app, but how they "hide" the markdown always drove me nuts.
@hjertnes funny you say that - been revisiting Ulysses for second time and finding so much more than I understood first time round ..
@JohnPhilpin If you're making a plain text app and I can't CMD-A CMD-C (or select all and copy on iOS) to get the markdown out of it – you failed.
@hjertnes I like it - mostly. The way it handles code blocks is annoying, it never seems to work properly especially when importing from somewhere else. Hiding the Markdown wasn’t so much of an issue for me. I just don’t use it much now so why pay for something I don’t use.
@colinwalker It feels too much like a CMS and not enough like a text editor to me.
@hjertnes I can understand that, and using it purely to post to my blog maybe that's why I didn't mind it ;)
@colinwalker Are there any good iOS WordPress clients except for the official one?
@hjertnes Not since Poster was acquired and shut down. And I personally wouldn't say the official one is actually any good.
@colinwalker It’s not bad, but it feels like a web app. I'm considering to start working on one.
@hjertnes I'll be just using it as the delivery mechanism so that doesn't concern me too much.
@hjertnes @colinwalker iA Writer can create new posts on Wordpress. It’s been my choice for writing posts. Can publish to multiple places from there. I especially prefer the interface it provides along with, of course, export/share options.
@amit I'm looking for a full client