• Gym close to my office
• I thought having a gym close to my office would have been convenient. I have found out that I prefer going to the gym closer to my house. It's more convenient on the weekends and in the evenings. Usually, this office gym is pretty busy around the same time I would find it convenient to go. Unfortunately, I'm locked into a year commitment on this, but we'll be cancelling it at the end of the year. 
• Gym close to my house
• Deezer
• This is a bit of a left field one and feels like it's very antithetical to my goals but I explain more in the conclusion 
• Monarch
• I actually had this one before. I just forgot to add it on the last list
• YouTube Lite (x2) 
• Buying two YouTube Lite subscriptions for my partner and me was cheaper than buying a YouTube Family subscription.
• We both have been watching more YouTube over the past couple months and reached a breaking point with the ads, and we broke down on this.  
• One video streaming service
• Used to be Crave, now it's Netflix. This is mostly used by my fiancé, although whenever a new season of Love is Blind comes out, I do jump in on it. 
• Sportsnet
• It's baseball season, and the Raptors made a run in the playoffs, so we added this. Mostly used by myself. 
• Nebula
• Like Monarch, this was already something we were subscribed to. I forgot to add it to the list last time. 
• All Trails
• This one is for my sabbatical. We'll get rid of it after the first year. 
• NY Times Games -> NY Times
• Covered by work
• The Guardian
• Also covered by work

• Apple One
• We've gone down to just having iCloud.
• Set App
• TTC Monthly Pass
• Switched to pay-as-you-go
• Bear
• I had originally intended to get rid of Posthaven instead of getting rid of Bear, but I found Bear to still be a little too limited, especially since I don't support creating blog posts via email, which is the main way I like to post my blog. 
• Transit App

Planned Changes

Ente

This is a tough one because I really love Ente. I think it's such a great platform. It's really thoughtfully designed, the tools work really well, and I've emailed the CEO and gotten immediate feedback. The trouble is the cost. It's a very expensive product, and it does a lot more than I actually need it to. I don't want to be supporting a big tech company, and it's hard to justify when Google Drive has the ability to share and collaborate on documents, which is, on a day-to-day basis, a bigger thing that is needed for our household.

The Ente Locker is a cool feature, but we mostly get that through 1Password, which I get for free through work. I would pay for 1Password on its own just because of how much we use it. The tricky thing with a lot of this stuff is the collaboration between my partner and me. This would be a different thing if it was just myself. I would probably be using an open-source document service, and I really wouldn't need anything beyond what's on my computer or my iPad.

Since it's not just me, I need to find something that works well for both of us. In an ideal world, we would be seeing something like these smaller, privacy-minded, independent platforms like Kagi and Fastmail, Mailbox and Ente, all of them collaborating. They are aware of each other and that they share common user bases. What's missing is the ability to have one subscription and strong integrations between these so I could mix and match between services and offer my partner a simple solution to collaboration. That's what's missing here, and with a lot of these privacy-focused tools. 

Conclusion