heavy user of the iOS app, but some people do wish it were as polished and feature-rich as the Dropbox or Google Drive mobile apps.
# Who Koofr Is (and Isn't) For
If your top priorities are privacy, straightforward pricing, and reliable cross-platform file storage, Koofr is an excellent choice. It's especially appealing if you like having multiple ways to access your data--native apps, WebDAV, rclone, or even direct browser access--without being locked into a single ecosystem.
It's also a great fit for people who want to break free from the endless subnoscription treadmill. The lifetime plans make financial sense if you plan to keep your data around for years, and Koofr has been around long enough to feel stable and mature rather than fly-by-night.
On the other hand, Koofr probably isn't ideal if you live entirely inside Apple's ecosystem and depend heavily on deep iCloud integrations, or if you need ultra-fast collaboration features on par with Google Workspace. Power users who rely on tightly integrated mobile apps with every bell and whistle might find Koofr's apps a bit more utilitarian.
For everyone else--especially Mac users who care more about control and privacy than about shiny extras--Koofr hits a practical sweet spot. It's not flashy, but it's dependable, reasonably priced, and refreshingly respectful of your data. For my workflow, that matters a lot more than another animated onboarding screen.
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# Who Koofr Is (and Isn't) For
If your top priorities are privacy, straightforward pricing, and reliable cross-platform file storage, Koofr is an excellent choice. It's especially appealing if you like having multiple ways to access your data--native apps, WebDAV, rclone, or even direct browser access--without being locked into a single ecosystem.
It's also a great fit for people who want to break free from the endless subnoscription treadmill. The lifetime plans make financial sense if you plan to keep your data around for years, and Koofr has been around long enough to feel stable and mature rather than fly-by-night.
On the other hand, Koofr probably isn't ideal if you live entirely inside Apple's ecosystem and depend heavily on deep iCloud integrations, or if you need ultra-fast collaboration features on par with Google Workspace. Power users who rely on tightly integrated mobile apps with every bell and whistle might find Koofr's apps a bit more utilitarian.
For everyone else--especially Mac users who care more about control and privacy than about shiny extras--Koofr hits a practical sweet spot. It's not flashy, but it's dependable, reasonably priced, and refreshingly respectful of your data. For my workflow, that matters a lot more than another animated onboarding screen.
https://redd.it/1qxk8hc
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PSA: App devs, think about how you can make your app fit into automation workflows
I create quite a few automation workflows for myself regularly, so I run into all kinds of hurdles which present opportunities for apps to be improved in regard to automation.
Unfortunately many apps only provide the possibility of keyboard shortcuts as a way to partially automate them, the drawback there is that it's a lot more work to have to find a shortcut that isn't assigned and keep track of it in the future. A keyboard shortcut is really only meant to be triggered by the human, not as a way for automation between two programs; unfortunately it is the best option to do automation if the app doesn't provide other options.
Sometimes apps come with Shortcuts actions, which are nice for the less technically inclined, but unsuited for more serious automation workflows due to the high latency involved with execution a Shortcut and the fact that they can only run in the foreground (visibly).
Other means are:
\- Deeplinks, which are particularily well suited for opening specific parts of your app (e.g. a specific view, or some specific data, etc.) or triggering some action, if the app should be in foreground for that. So they are suited for example for triggering a screenshot, which then brings up the edit window; that's how Shottr does it for example. They are not ideal for any kind of query where data needs to be returned, unless the app needs to be in foreground for that (e.g. because the user needs to enter something first), or any kind of action where the app doesn't have to be in the foreground. I wouldn't want to have my bookmark manager automatically coming to the foreground simply because I'm saving a link via an automation.
A key issue with keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts and deeplinks is also that you can't call them from anywhere. The calling program needs to specifically support calling these, which makes workflows significantly more complicated if they don't. Then you have to use some other tool in between for example.
\- CLI; CLIs are probably the best kind since they are usable from almost anywhere, you can even just use them from the terminal (obviously). They can be incredibly flexible and be used for almost anything. You can respond to queries for data, or let them trigger an action, all that in the background, or optionally you can still choose to bring the app to the foreground if you wish so. They are extremely suited to be integrated into any kind of workflow, from the simple ones to the most complicated and can remain very flexible at the same time.
\- AppleScript. AppleScript is fine, it's old and has complicated syntax, it doesn't really have any benefits over CLI and only makes it harder to learn how to do automate your app, but at least its almost as compatible with other tools as the CLI since you can just execute it from the CLI.
My recommendations:
\- Prefer CLIs; but also, in addition, provide deeplinks to access/open specific content in your app, or to trigger specific actions where it makes sense for the app to be in the foreground.
\- Offer (insofar possible) broad functionality via the CLI. Allow querying the app data (broadly or specifically), performing operations on that data, or triggering actions. Ideally make it as detailled as the app's UI, so your users can use automation to do everything they can do in the UI via the CLI. That specifically also includes data like your app's settings and actions like setting those settings.
\- Offer the most important parts of that additionally via Shortcuts, so that regular users can create simple automation workflows for themselves. If you have an iPad or iOS app, the benefit is additionally that those actions can then also be used on those devices. (And Apple Intelligence could possibly in the future be able to use those actions too.)
\- You can also offer some or all functionality via AppleScript, but a well-made CLI can reach a larger group of users and their needs.
\- Keyboard shortcuts are here to stay of course, but they are really mainly suited
I create quite a few automation workflows for myself regularly, so I run into all kinds of hurdles which present opportunities for apps to be improved in regard to automation.
Unfortunately many apps only provide the possibility of keyboard shortcuts as a way to partially automate them, the drawback there is that it's a lot more work to have to find a shortcut that isn't assigned and keep track of it in the future. A keyboard shortcut is really only meant to be triggered by the human, not as a way for automation between two programs; unfortunately it is the best option to do automation if the app doesn't provide other options.
Sometimes apps come with Shortcuts actions, which are nice for the less technically inclined, but unsuited for more serious automation workflows due to the high latency involved with execution a Shortcut and the fact that they can only run in the foreground (visibly).
Other means are:
\- Deeplinks, which are particularily well suited for opening specific parts of your app (e.g. a specific view, or some specific data, etc.) or triggering some action, if the app should be in foreground for that. So they are suited for example for triggering a screenshot, which then brings up the edit window; that's how Shottr does it for example. They are not ideal for any kind of query where data needs to be returned, unless the app needs to be in foreground for that (e.g. because the user needs to enter something first), or any kind of action where the app doesn't have to be in the foreground. I wouldn't want to have my bookmark manager automatically coming to the foreground simply because I'm saving a link via an automation.
A key issue with keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts and deeplinks is also that you can't call them from anywhere. The calling program needs to specifically support calling these, which makes workflows significantly more complicated if they don't. Then you have to use some other tool in between for example.
\- CLI; CLIs are probably the best kind since they are usable from almost anywhere, you can even just use them from the terminal (obviously). They can be incredibly flexible and be used for almost anything. You can respond to queries for data, or let them trigger an action, all that in the background, or optionally you can still choose to bring the app to the foreground if you wish so. They are extremely suited to be integrated into any kind of workflow, from the simple ones to the most complicated and can remain very flexible at the same time.
\- AppleScript. AppleScript is fine, it's old and has complicated syntax, it doesn't really have any benefits over CLI and only makes it harder to learn how to do automate your app, but at least its almost as compatible with other tools as the CLI since you can just execute it from the CLI.
My recommendations:
\- Prefer CLIs; but also, in addition, provide deeplinks to access/open specific content in your app, or to trigger specific actions where it makes sense for the app to be in the foreground.
\- Offer (insofar possible) broad functionality via the CLI. Allow querying the app data (broadly or specifically), performing operations on that data, or triggering actions. Ideally make it as detailled as the app's UI, so your users can use automation to do everything they can do in the UI via the CLI. That specifically also includes data like your app's settings and actions like setting those settings.
\- Offer the most important parts of that additionally via Shortcuts, so that regular users can create simple automation workflows for themselves. If you have an iPad or iOS app, the benefit is additionally that those actions can then also be used on those devices. (And Apple Intelligence could possibly in the future be able to use those actions too.)
\- You can also offer some or all functionality via AppleScript, but a well-made CLI can reach a larger group of users and their needs.
\- Keyboard shortcuts are here to stay of course, but they are really mainly suited
for being used by humans. The big benefit of automation via CLI, for example, is that even if you don't provide an option to set a keyboard shortcut for everything, the user will be able to trigger that action by binding their own shortcut to it.
Apps like aerospace and FlashSpace are very well made in that regard. You can control them via the CLI, and all you have left to do is use something like skhd to bind your keyboard shortcuts to CLI commands; or you can make those actions a part of a whole automation workflow of course.
Bonus points: for those developers who use a configuration file for their app's settings or configuration (or at least make it an option!). There really is no easier way to let users use the identical setup on multiple machines and/or integrate it into a nix-darwin project.
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Apps like aerospace and FlashSpace are very well made in that regard. You can control them via the CLI, and all you have left to do is use something like skhd to bind your keyboard shortcuts to CLI commands; or you can make those actions a part of a whole automation workflow of course.
Bonus points: for those developers who use a configuration file for their app's settings or configuration (or at least make it an option!). There really is no easier way to let users use the identical setup on multiple machines and/or integrate it into a nix-darwin project.
https://redd.it/1qxk0j2
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OS Son of Simon — natural language assistant for Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari via AppleScript
What it does: Connects an LLM to your native Apple apps through AppleScript. Talk to it in plain English and it acts on Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, and Safari directly.
- "Send John the meeting notes from yesterday" → Mail.app
- "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" → Calendar.app
- "Remind me to call the dentist Friday" → Reminders.app
How it's different from OpenClaw: OpenClaw is powerful but general-purpose — it connects to everything through browser flows and a gateway. If you're on macOS with Office 365 or iCloud accounts already set up in Mail/Calendar, that means re-authenticating and exposing a new surface area.
Son of Simon skips all of that:
- No re-auth. It talks to the apps macOS already authenticated via Keychain.
- No gateway. Nothing exposed to the internet. No open ports.
- No credential storage. Your passwords stay in Keychain where they belong.
- macOS-native by design, not by afterthought. AppleScript is the entire integration layer.
- Support for AgentSkill skills from ClawHub and other sources
It's narrower than OpenClaw on purpose. If your stuff lives in Apple apps, you don't need a general-purpose agent framework — you need something that talks to the apps you already use.
Telegram integration for remote access. Learns your preferences over time (stored locally, deletable). Requires macOS 14+ and Apple Silicon.
Early stage — looking for testers. Run doctor after onboarding to check your setup.
https://github.com/spamsch/son-of-simon
Happy to take blunt feedback.
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What it does: Connects an LLM to your native Apple apps through AppleScript. Talk to it in plain English and it acts on Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, and Safari directly.
- "Send John the meeting notes from yesterday" → Mail.app
- "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" → Calendar.app
- "Remind me to call the dentist Friday" → Reminders.app
How it's different from OpenClaw: OpenClaw is powerful but general-purpose — it connects to everything through browser flows and a gateway. If you're on macOS with Office 365 or iCloud accounts already set up in Mail/Calendar, that means re-authenticating and exposing a new surface area.
Son of Simon skips all of that:
- No re-auth. It talks to the apps macOS already authenticated via Keychain.
- No gateway. Nothing exposed to the internet. No open ports.
- No credential storage. Your passwords stay in Keychain where they belong.
- macOS-native by design, not by afterthought. AppleScript is the entire integration layer.
- Support for AgentSkill skills from ClawHub and other sources
It's narrower than OpenClaw on purpose. If your stuff lives in Apple apps, you don't need a general-purpose agent framework — you need something that talks to the apps you already use.
Telegram integration for remote access. Learns your preferences over time (stored locally, deletable). Requires macOS 14+ and Apple Silicon.
Early stage — looking for testers. Run doctor after onboarding to check your setup.
https://github.com/spamsch/son-of-simon
Happy to take blunt feedback.
https://redd.it/1qxm68e
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GitHub
GitHub - spamsch/son-of-simon: LLM-powered macOS automation agent. Control Mail, Calendar, Reminders via natural language using…
LLM-powered macOS automation agent. Control Mail, Calendar, Reminders via natural language using AppleScript. Telegram voice commands, browser automation, and 100+ LLM providers. - spamsch/son-of-s...
At Ottex we believe voice will become the primary method of interacting with the computer. Our goal is to make it free and accessible to everyone. February update!
I've been working on Ottex for a while now and wanted to share what we shipped this month.
# What's new?
# Per-app AI models and custom instructions
Ottex now lets you assign different AI models to different apps and websites. I use a fast local model for Claude Code where I need instant dictation, and Gemini 3 Flash for Gmail where I want the AI to format a proper email from my stream of consciousness. You set it once per app and forget about it - the right setup kicks in depending on where you're typing.
Сustom instructions and models per application.
A custom mode for Obsidian that outputs clean markdown when I dictate:
https://i.redd.it/ae66q0ia2xhg1.gif
# Meeting trannoscription with speaker detection
Diarized trannoscription with speaker labels - export as a text file or copy in one click.
Drop an audio or video file, get a full trannoscript with speaker labels - who said what, when. All of this works completely free on a local model on your Mac, or through any provider by plugging in your API keys.
# Local models
https://preview.redd.it/usaybgf7mwhg1.png?width=2234&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bb71a4426e9341fcc623b0cd57efdbda2ebc81e
Last time I posted here many people said they're happy with Parakeet or a local Whisper setup and don't need another app. Fair enough. Done. Now with Ottex you can use local models... for Free. No subnoscriptions, no one time payments.
# Ottex on Easy Mode
For people who don't want to deal with API keys or model setup, we added an Ottex Cloud provider - login and everything works out of the box. Free credits included, no credit card required to try.
If you're comfortable with BYOK or local models, nothing changes - same app, same features, no limits, no cost. My bill as a heavy user is about $2/month with Parakeet V3 and Gemini 3 Flash via OpenRouter.
\---
I think voice input should be free for personal use. I plan to make money on team features down the road. Local models and BYOK will cost nothing, always.
If you know a voice-to-text app that gives you better value for what you pay - genuinely curious, tell me in the comments.
Download: https://ottex.ai
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I've been working on Ottex for a while now and wanted to share what we shipped this month.
# What's new?
# Per-app AI models and custom instructions
Ottex now lets you assign different AI models to different apps and websites. I use a fast local model for Claude Code where I need instant dictation, and Gemini 3 Flash for Gmail where I want the AI to format a proper email from my stream of consciousness. You set it once per app and forget about it - the right setup kicks in depending on where you're typing.
Сustom instructions and models per application.
A custom mode for Obsidian that outputs clean markdown when I dictate:
https://i.redd.it/ae66q0ia2xhg1.gif
# Meeting trannoscription with speaker detection
Diarized trannoscription with speaker labels - export as a text file or copy in one click.
Drop an audio or video file, get a full trannoscript with speaker labels - who said what, when. All of this works completely free on a local model on your Mac, or through any provider by plugging in your API keys.
# Local models
https://preview.redd.it/usaybgf7mwhg1.png?width=2234&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bb71a4426e9341fcc623b0cd57efdbda2ebc81e
Last time I posted here many people said they're happy with Parakeet or a local Whisper setup and don't need another app. Fair enough. Done. Now with Ottex you can use local models... for Free. No subnoscriptions, no one time payments.
# Ottex on Easy Mode
For people who don't want to deal with API keys or model setup, we added an Ottex Cloud provider - login and everything works out of the box. Free credits included, no credit card required to try.
If you're comfortable with BYOK or local models, nothing changes - same app, same features, no limits, no cost. My bill as a heavy user is about $2/month with Parakeet V3 and Gemini 3 Flash via OpenRouter.
\---
I think voice input should be free for personal use. I plan to make money on team features down the road. Local models and BYOK will cost nothing, always.
If you know a voice-to-text app that gives you better value for what you pay - genuinely curious, tell me in the comments.
Download: https://ottex.ai
https://redd.it/1qxpn6k
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Quilt - Automate Captures of Anything
I work with a bunch of books, slides and other forms of content that I can't easily save. With AI models these days, being able to ask questions to my content or even just share it with friends had been something I was looking for but there weren't any great solutions which is why I built Quilt.
HOW IT WORKS:
Quilt automatically can take screenshots in a set area on your screen, and automatically switch page by clicking a key or simulating a mouse click and then take another screenshot etc.. until complete and then stitch them together and make the PDF searchable. It has support for custom file names, scroll captures (for vertical content such as website blogs) and more!
Quilt Main UI
You can get started for free and there's some Pro features available for lifetime purchase and no subnoscriptions and costs $32.99 for 1 seat, and lifetime updates. It's fully optimized for macOS Tahoe as well!
Check it out: https://quiltformac.com
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I work with a bunch of books, slides and other forms of content that I can't easily save. With AI models these days, being able to ask questions to my content or even just share it with friends had been something I was looking for but there weren't any great solutions which is why I built Quilt.
HOW IT WORKS:
Quilt automatically can take screenshots in a set area on your screen, and automatically switch page by clicking a key or simulating a mouse click and then take another screenshot etc.. until complete and then stitch them together and make the PDF searchable. It has support for custom file names, scroll captures (for vertical content such as website blogs) and more!
Quilt Main UI
You can get started for free and there's some Pro features available for lifetime purchase and no subnoscriptions and costs $32.99 for 1 seat, and lifetime updates. It's fully optimized for macOS Tahoe as well!
Check it out: https://quiltformac.com
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Macos Rainmeter version OS (to be)
Hi Yall,
I have been working on a MacOS version for anyone interested, it is not quite ready yet but i want to share what I have so far. It will have compatibility with most .rmskin files (meaning most standard rainmeter skins should work on it). It will also come with a suite of liquid glass themed ones. I don't have anything to share yet (its still very very finicky) but I will update soon. Suggestions, please!!
https://redd.it/1qxx7z3
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Hi Yall,
I have been working on a MacOS version for anyone interested, it is not quite ready yet but i want to share what I have so far. It will have compatibility with most .rmskin files (meaning most standard rainmeter skins should work on it). It will also come with a suite of liquid glass themed ones. I don't have anything to share yet (its still very very finicky) but I will update soon. Suggestions, please!!
https://redd.it/1qxx7z3
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Stik — free, open-source instant note capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close.
I've been working on Stik, a lightweight note-capture app for macOS. The idea is simple: hit a keyboard shortcut, type your thought, close it. Under 3 seconds, back to what you were doing.
Key features:
\- Global shortcuts summon a floating post-it from anywhere
\- Notes saved as plain `.md` files in `\~/Documents/Stik/`
\- Organize with folders, pin notes to desktop as stickies
\- On-device AI for semantic search and smart folder suggestions
\- No account, no cloud, no telemetry — everything stays on your Mac
It's free and open source: https://github.com/0xMassi/stik\_app
Install with Homebrew: `brew install --cask 0xMassi/stik/stik`
Or grab the DMG from GitHub Releases.
Requires macOS 10.15+. Would love to hear what you think!
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I've been working on Stik, a lightweight note-capture app for macOS. The idea is simple: hit a keyboard shortcut, type your thought, close it. Under 3 seconds, back to what you were doing.
Key features:
\- Global shortcuts summon a floating post-it from anywhere
\- Notes saved as plain `.md` files in `\~/Documents/Stik/`
\- Organize with folders, pin notes to desktop as stickies
\- On-device AI for semantic search and smart folder suggestions
\- No account, no cloud, no telemetry — everything stays on your Mac
It's free and open source: https://github.com/0xMassi/stik\_app
Install with Homebrew: `brew install --cask 0xMassi/stik/stik`
Or grab the DMG from GitHub Releases.
Requires macOS 10.15+. Would love to hear what you think!
https://redd.it/1qxv0cr
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GitHub
GitHub - 0xMassi/stik_app: Instant thought capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close.
Instant thought capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close. - 0xMassi/stik_app
Raindrop.io Gets a Significant New Feature
https://preview.redd.it/g3ezaqkrvzhg1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41fd09693bdcb570a930bf26282353cae2392e2c
I've used the bookmark service [**Raindrop.io**](http://Raindrop.io) for the last three years, and it's a subnoscription I don't hesitate to renew. It has a deep feature set, and today it added something genuinely interesting for Pro users: a beta version of a private LLM assistant called [Stella](https://help.raindrop.io/stella).
Stella is designed for people with large, messy bookmark libraries. Instead of manually cleaning and reorganizing, you can just ask for help in plain language. Examples the system already understands:
* Organize my unsorted bookmarks into collections
* Suggest a better structure for my library
* Find articles about Formula 1 and tag them by team
* Find everything about Japan and move it to Travel
* Clean up my tags--merge duplicates like "recipe" and "recipes"
* Find broken links
* Show duplicate bookmarks
The key detail I appreciate: Stella only suggests changes. You review and approve everything before anything is actually modified.
# What you get for free
The free tier of Raindrop.io is surprisingly generous and will be more than enough for a lot of users:
* Import bookmarks from other services and browsers
* Unlimited bookmarks
* Unlimited collections
* Unlimited highlights
* Unlimited devices
* More than 2,600 integrations via IFTTT
* Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
For a no-cost service, that's a serious toolkit.
# Why I actually use it
One of my favorite parts of Raindrop is how well it fits into a real Mac workflow. The Raycast integration is excellent: I can type **"rd," hit Enter**, and instantly search my entire collection of 2,800+ bookmarks.
Raindrop supports both folders and tags, and I use both heavily. The iOS share sheet is just as smooth as the browser extension, and both let me add notes to anything I save. I can highlight passages directly in the app, and there's a free Obsidian plugin that keeps everything in sync with my notes.
A feature that sold me on Pro early on is the **permanent library**. Raindrop saves a copy of every bookmarked page on its servers, so if a site disappears, I still have the content. That alone is worth a couple bucks a month.
It also handles PDFs well. Pro users can upload documents and access them from any device, but even free users get 100 MB of PDF uploads per month.
I've tied Raindrop into the rest of my information flow, too. Using IFTTT, anything I star in Inoreader automatically lands in Raindrop. I do the same with YouTube--every video I like gets saved as a bookmark. It quietly becomes a personal knowledge hub without much effort.
# The Pro plan
If you want more than the free tier, the Pro plan runs **$2.99 a month or $28 a year**, which feels reasonable for what you get.
Pro includes:
* Everything in the free plan
* AI suggestions for folders and tags
* Full-text search across saved pages
* Permanent library copies of pages
* Reminders to review saved items
* Annotations
* Duplicate and broken link finder
* Daily backups
* Upload up to 10 GB of files per month
* Priority email support
* Access across all platforms
Raindrop.io has quietly become one of those "set it up once and rely on it forever" tools in my stack. If you've got years of bookmarks scattered across browsers and services, it's one of the few apps that can actually help you make sense of them instead of just giving you another pile to manage.
https://redd.it/1qy3dxn
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https://preview.redd.it/g3ezaqkrvzhg1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41fd09693bdcb570a930bf26282353cae2392e2c
I've used the bookmark service [**Raindrop.io**](http://Raindrop.io) for the last three years, and it's a subnoscription I don't hesitate to renew. It has a deep feature set, and today it added something genuinely interesting for Pro users: a beta version of a private LLM assistant called [Stella](https://help.raindrop.io/stella).
Stella is designed for people with large, messy bookmark libraries. Instead of manually cleaning and reorganizing, you can just ask for help in plain language. Examples the system already understands:
* Organize my unsorted bookmarks into collections
* Suggest a better structure for my library
* Find articles about Formula 1 and tag them by team
* Find everything about Japan and move it to Travel
* Clean up my tags--merge duplicates like "recipe" and "recipes"
* Find broken links
* Show duplicate bookmarks
The key detail I appreciate: Stella only suggests changes. You review and approve everything before anything is actually modified.
# What you get for free
The free tier of Raindrop.io is surprisingly generous and will be more than enough for a lot of users:
* Import bookmarks from other services and browsers
* Unlimited bookmarks
* Unlimited collections
* Unlimited highlights
* Unlimited devices
* More than 2,600 integrations via IFTTT
* Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
For a no-cost service, that's a serious toolkit.
# Why I actually use it
One of my favorite parts of Raindrop is how well it fits into a real Mac workflow. The Raycast integration is excellent: I can type **"rd," hit Enter**, and instantly search my entire collection of 2,800+ bookmarks.
Raindrop supports both folders and tags, and I use both heavily. The iOS share sheet is just as smooth as the browser extension, and both let me add notes to anything I save. I can highlight passages directly in the app, and there's a free Obsidian plugin that keeps everything in sync with my notes.
A feature that sold me on Pro early on is the **permanent library**. Raindrop saves a copy of every bookmarked page on its servers, so if a site disappears, I still have the content. That alone is worth a couple bucks a month.
It also handles PDFs well. Pro users can upload documents and access them from any device, but even free users get 100 MB of PDF uploads per month.
I've tied Raindrop into the rest of my information flow, too. Using IFTTT, anything I star in Inoreader automatically lands in Raindrop. I do the same with YouTube--every video I like gets saved as a bookmark. It quietly becomes a personal knowledge hub without much effort.
# The Pro plan
If you want more than the free tier, the Pro plan runs **$2.99 a month or $28 a year**, which feels reasonable for what you get.
Pro includes:
* Everything in the free plan
* AI suggestions for folders and tags
* Full-text search across saved pages
* Permanent library copies of pages
* Reminders to review saved items
* Annotations
* Duplicate and broken link finder
* Daily backups
* Upload up to 10 GB of files per month
* Priority email support
* Access across all platforms
Raindrop.io has quietly become one of those "set it up once and rely on it forever" tools in my stack. If you've got years of bookmarks scattered across browsers and services, it's one of the few apps that can actually help you make sense of them instead of just giving you another pile to manage.
https://redd.it/1qy3dxn
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OS Web browser tailored for job searching
This febuary it will be 2 years old so not exactly new, today I want to showcase First 2 Apply.
When I started it the job market was still okish, but I had this idea that applying in the first 24-48h increases your chances of getting interviews. In today’s job market this is becoming even more relevant.
Besides that, I also wanted to make the process easier. Looking at it, I had 5-10 open tabs in Chrome with different job boards that I was constantly refreshing so the initial version was just a dumb cron job that loads my saved links in an electron window, extracts the job listings and dumps them in a supabase table. On the next run it would diff the list and if anything new popped up it would send me a desktop notification. This already helped a lot with the manual process of constantly refreshing my open tabs.
The next step was to cut through the noise. I was searching for nodejs jobs, but LinkedIn kept showing me 50% of the jobs that required Java or Python which I knew I didn’t want. So I plugged in an OpenAI model and gave it a prompt to exclude jobs from my feed that had certain keywords in the job denoscription. It only works properly like 80% of the time, but it’s still a huge time saver.
I’m not exactly looking to make money with it, that’s why I made it open source: https://github.com/beastx-ro/first2apply
I enjoy working on it as a hobby when I get bored with my 9-5. And personally I find it useful and hope it will also help others.
I’m also willing to give it away for free if you cannot afford the hosted version. I still have some free AI credits (thanks Microsoft) so not loosing money on it myself. Just DM me the email account you’ve used to sign up and will put you on a free plan (but use the 7 day trial first to see if it actually works for you).
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This febuary it will be 2 years old so not exactly new, today I want to showcase First 2 Apply.
When I started it the job market was still okish, but I had this idea that applying in the first 24-48h increases your chances of getting interviews. In today’s job market this is becoming even more relevant.
Besides that, I also wanted to make the process easier. Looking at it, I had 5-10 open tabs in Chrome with different job boards that I was constantly refreshing so the initial version was just a dumb cron job that loads my saved links in an electron window, extracts the job listings and dumps them in a supabase table. On the next run it would diff the list and if anything new popped up it would send me a desktop notification. This already helped a lot with the manual process of constantly refreshing my open tabs.
The next step was to cut through the noise. I was searching for nodejs jobs, but LinkedIn kept showing me 50% of the jobs that required Java or Python which I knew I didn’t want. So I plugged in an OpenAI model and gave it a prompt to exclude jobs from my feed that had certain keywords in the job denoscription. It only works properly like 80% of the time, but it’s still a huge time saver.
I’m not exactly looking to make money with it, that’s why I made it open source: https://github.com/beastx-ro/first2apply
I enjoy working on it as a hobby when I get bored with my 9-5. And personally I find it useful and hope it will also help others.
I’m also willing to give it away for free if you cannot afford the hosted version. I still have some free AI credits (thanks Microsoft) so not loosing money on it myself. Just DM me the email account you’ve used to sign up and will put you on a free plan (but use the 7 day trial first to see if it actually works for you).
https://redd.it/1qy8bjz
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