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I enjoyed using PackPack for a couple months (generous free plan, unlike all the other similar apps — MyMind, I'm looking at you) but ended up deleting it when the AI refused to provide a summary of a perfectly innocent image of two twenty-something young men kissing. Lightly, not even making out. I just thought it was sweet, but ChatGPT declared it wasn't "comfortable" summarizing the content....

PackPack
1-click to save any articles, social media posts, files

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
Mise en scene and Film Style - Adrian Martin
How Life Works - Phillip Ball
The Holocaust - Dan Stone
What book are you reading rn?
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Rick Powell
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Well, I recorded my first note. In English. And it produced the note in Portuguese, which I can kinda sorta read, but obviously that's not the language I recorded in.

SecBrain AI
Use AI to save and remember everything


Rick Powell
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BlueSky deletes posts that do not conform to a narrow, sectarian-leftist conception of politics and ideology, indulging safetyism, gender self-ID, and affirmation, ideas which not all trans people share. None of my adult trans friends do, for instance. I shared an article about sexual dimorphism in humans written by an evolutionary biologist, with no mention of trans people at all, and it was...

Bluesky
Social media as it should be, now open to all

Rick Powell
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Sounds useful for me as an ESL/EFL teacher, but I was unable to create an account with Google signin: Access blocked: wqggbrcwwzmvltwlyftp.supabase.co has not completed the Google verification process

Cliptutor
Learn and teach 10x faster with AI-powered video lectures

Rick Powell
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Sider is like an incredibly efficent TA at my side digitally during my online English classes and a real boon to the work I do every day.
Sider 4.0
Group chat with multiple AI bots to reduce hallucinations

Rick Powell
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Great idea and it's wicked fast, even on my middlin' machine. But the default keyboard shortcut is Alt+F, which is already mapped to Chrome's menu.

Tab Search for Google Chrome
Search the content of all of your open tabs.

Rick Powell
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Second Brain is an astoundingly powerful and complete solution for my small business, allowing those of us who look at Notion and wonder, How do I do that? Instead, we can quickly get up and running productively. Thanks for all the attention to detail.
Notion Second Brain 2.0
All-in-one system for ultimate organization, clarity & focus

Rick Powell
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Anyone who has struggled with daily journaling as I have should try this app out immediately. I haven't had a perfect streak since I started using it, but it's a lot better than before. One could literally write all day back and forth with Rosebud. Not quite life-changing, but certainly habit-changing.

Rosebud
Fast-track your personal growth with AI

Rick Powell
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Path Finder, my favorite files app on any platform. Also included with a Setapp subscription.
Apps you can't live without on Mac?
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Rick Powell
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Bento is a far superior link-in-bio. I mean, really, all those others look exactly the same. Pleasant visual feedback, too.
Bento
A link in bio, but rich and beautiful


Rick Powell
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I just came back from a compulsory sojourn in the wilderness with the oddly and oh-so-corporately deigned Zoom. Such a relief to get back to the smoothness and natural fun of Butter. My students prefer it too.
Butter 2.0
Effortlessly run engaging sessions that people love

Rick Powell
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The surprise aspect takes gifting and tipping to a whole new level. And I love surprises. ;-) Congrats.
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Gift App
Make a wish(list) and get it funded

Rick Powell
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On one hand, I can count the apps I'm grateful for and feel empowered by. Readwise has been on that list for years, and now Reader joins its sibling.

Readwise Reader
The all-in-one reading app for power readers

Rick Powell
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Well, I love the concept, but, after my first unfollow, I keep getting warnings that I'm unfollowing too quickly.

Prune your Follows
Does your Twitter timeline bring you joy?