Need to solve my bookmarks

I've been using GoodLinks for over a year now and it's literally the only app where I've managed to build a workflow that actually works for me. But here's the thing – it stopped syncing between my Mac and iPhone a while back and it's driving me crazy. I've hit up the devs and support multiple times with zero response. At this point I'm just gonna look for something to replace it. I've been thinking about using a notes app (I use Bear) to organize my bookmarks instead, but I'm not sure if that's even the right move. Would love to know if anyone actually uses a notes app for this and has some kind of organization system that works. The other option is switching to a different bookmarks app, but honestly every one I've tried has let me down – I've paid for apps that just die or have issues like GoodLinks. Anyone got any suggestions for what I need?

The workflow I've got with GoodLinks right now is pretty straightforward – whenever I find a URL I wanna save for later, I just hit the sharesheet, open GoodLinks, and save it with the "bookmarks" tag. Then every so often I go back and review those bookmarks, and the ones worth keeping or saving for later I categorize into other tags I've already set up in the app. That's basically it.

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Protego for Reddit v3 is live! I deleted the Reddit app two years ago and built the Safari extension I wanted instead. Take control of your Reddit feed!

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Daily (Mac time tracker) just added a web API, Zapier, and an MCP server — still the no-monitoring, prompt-based option in a field full of automatic trackers

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**TL;DR:**
Daily tracks time by periodically asking what you're doing instead of watching your apps, which is a real fix for the "forgot to hit the timer" problem. Its June 2026 update adds a web API, Zapier integration, and MCP server, turning it into a two-way node with tools like Jira instead of a standalone timesheet. The MCP piece is aimed at technical users for now: API-key auth instead of OAuth means Claude and ChatGPT need a proxy to connect.

# Daily

If you bill clients by the hour, it might be time to reevaluate your workflow. Daily, a Mac time tracker from independent developer [Niels Mouthaan](https://nielsmouthaan.dev/), continuously supported since 2013, just got a substantial update: a web API, a Zapier integration, and an MCP server. Because it works via user polling and not background process monitoring, it's the go-to privacy-respecting choice in its category.

Based on its review history, Daily enjoys broad support from tech professionals with ADHD and time blindness in particular, and plenty of neurotypical folks too. The human brain just isn't designed to do two things at once, despite all the hype about multitasking. Every timer-based tracker asks you to remember to press a button at the exact moment your attention shifts, which is precisely the moment you're least equipped to remember anything. You close a ticket, Slack pings you, someone walks in, and forty-five minutes evaporate into whatever bucket the timer was left running in. That's not a discipline problem. It's a design flaw.

Daily skips that requirement entirely. It doesn't watch your apps, your browser tabs, or your open documents. It just interrupts you on a schedule, asks what you've been doing, and lets you pick from a list. That's a different model from RescueTime-style automatic trackers.

# Newest Features

Daily has quietly had most of its bones (scheduler, AppleScript, iCloud sync to a companion iOS app, CSV/JSON/Toggl-format export) for years. The submission-worthy update is the [integrations release](https://dailytimetracking.com/blog/integrations), published June 26, 2026, which adds three ways to get data in and out:

* **A web API** (`api.dailytimetracking.com`) with endpoints for activities, summaries, and timesheets, authenticated by an API key you generate in preferences.
* **A Zapier integration**, with triggers for new/updated time entries and actions to add activities or pull a summary or timesheet -- no code required.
* **An MCP server** (`mcp.dailytimetracking.com`), which the research note this post started from didn't even catch. This is the more interesting piece for this audience: it exposes tools like `get_summary` and `get_timesheet`, so an AI assistant or coding agent can answer "how many hours did I bill Client X in February" directly, or use your tracked hours as an input to a larger workflow.

The MCP piece comes with a caveat, and Daily's own docs say so plainly: it authenticates with a custom `API-Key` header instead of OAuth. Locally run clients like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI handle that natively, but Claude's remote connector and ChatGPT's developer mode currently can't call it without a proxy like MCP Beast. If you're expecting a one-click Claude Connector, that's not there yet, and Daily says whether it ships one depends on how much the MCP server gets used.

The two-way workflow the developer pitched in his outreach (import Jira tickets as activities, then push logged hours back into Jira after the day is done) is a real automation, not a checkbox feature. Once you enable integrations in preferences, Daily syncs to its server every 15 minutes, at startup, at quit, and before sleep, and you control retention (default 90 days) from the same screen.

# Who Daily Is For

If you're the kind of person who forgets to

start a timer, or who resents having to remember to, and you don't want your Mac silently logging every app and URL to do it for you, Daily's prompt-based model solves that problem well. The new integrations turn it from a personal timesheet into a node in an actual workflow: tasks flow in from your project tracker, hours flow back out to invoicing or ticketing, without you retyping anything.

# Who Should Look Elsewhere

If you want the tracking done automatically, with zero interruptions, Timing or RescueTime are built for that trade-off, and Daily explicitly isn't. And if the MCP server is the reason you're interested, know that it's aimed at technical users right now: no OAuth, no official Claude Connector, and you'll be running a proxy if your AI client doesn't support custom headers. That's an honest state to ship in for a first MCP release, but it's not turnkey yet.

# Not For You? Try These Alternatives

Daily's category is prompt-based self-reporting, not automatic activity tracking, and that distinction changes what actually competes with it.

* [**Toggl Track**](https://toggl.com/track/pricing/) is the closest thing to an industry-standard manual/hybrid tracker: free for small teams, Starter at $9/user/month, Premium at $14/user/month for the first year of an annual plan (renewing at $18), all per [Toggl's own pricing page](https://toggl.com/track/pricing/) as of this writing. It has optional desktop activity tracking as a feature you opt into, which is the opposite of Daily's no-monitoring default.
* [**Timing**](https://timingapp.com/pricing) is the automatic-tracking alternative: it watches apps, websites, and documents by default rather than asking. Per [Timing's pricing page](https://timingapp.com/pricing), it's tiered as Professional, Expert, and Connect subscriptions (Connect being the one with MCP and team features), with no lifetime option listed. If you want the machine to infer your activity instead of asking you, this is the one; if you want zero passive monitoring, it's the wrong choice.
* [**RescueTime**](https://www.rescuetime.com/) is the other automatic-tracking name that comes up in this category, running in the background and logging app/site usage without prompting. Its cheapest individual plan (Solo Focus) is $9/month, or $7/month billed annually, per [RescueTime's pricing page](https://www.rescuetime.com/pricing) as of this writing.

# Pricing

This is a professional tool, priced like one. Daily's [Mac App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daily-work-hours-tracker/id686910553) currently lists in-app purchase tiers as Monthly $5.99, Quarterly $17.99, Yearly $34.99, and Lifetime $69.99. You'll see other prices quoted on other sites, but those sources appear to be dated.

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Photos from three cameras all landing in one folder — so I made File Arbor sort them by EXIF MacOS

I got tired of importing photos from multiple cameras only to end up with thousands of files named IMG_1234.jpg in one folder.

The metadata was already there the whole time. Every photo contains EXIF data like camera model, lens, ISO, focal length, and capture date. It just needed a way to use that information automatically.

So I added EXIF-based folder organization to FileArbor.

Now you can build destination folders directly from EXIF values:

Sorted/
├── NIKON Z 8/
├── Canon EOS R5/
└── Apple iPhone 15 Pro/

You can also combine tokens:

<Camera>/<ExifYear>
<ExifDate:yyyy-MM-dd>
<Camera>/<ExifDate:yyyy-MM-dd>
<Lens>
<ISO>
<FocalLength>

A few things I wanted to get right:

Everything runs locally. EXIF is read on your computer only—nothing is uploaded.
Images without camera EXIF (screenshots, downloads, etc.) don't create empty folders. Date tokens fall back to the file's modified date.
You can preview the folder structure before any files are moved.
Works on both Windows and macOS.

Full disclosure: this is my app.

The free version lets you try it on smaller batches, while unlimited organization, folder watching, and full library automation are part of the Pro version.

I'm looking for feedback from photographers and anyone with large photo libraries.

If you organize your photos, what EXIF fields would you want to build folders from? GPS/location? Aperture? Orientation? Something else?

FileArbor - Automatic File Organizer

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Follow-up: after your feedback I went and read my own onboarding like a new user. It was worse than I thought.

Last week I posted here about 1-star reviews getting to me. Most of you said some version of the same thing: it's usually not bugs, it's the app failing to explain itself. u/elementik4 split it into two buckets for me — wrong-fit user is a store listing problem, missing a setting that exists is an onboarding problem. That split stuck with me all week.

So I opened my own setup wizard and read it like someone who had never seen the app.

Five pages. Welcome screen. A list of six features. A sign-in prompt. A permission request. Then "you're all set", the window closes, and you're looking at a menu bar icon with nothing in it. Not one of those pages does anything for the user. I built a slideshow and called it onboarding.

Then I went reading. Apple's HIG is pretty blunt about it ("education isn't a substitute for great app design"), and there's an NN/g study with 70 people, tutorial vs no tutorial. The tutorial group wasn't faster and wasn't more successful. They rated the app as harder. That one stung.

What's changing:

Feature list is gone. It was already in the help window.
Sign-in moves to the end, after you've seen it work.
New page 3: you record something right now, with a suggested 20 second task.
New page 4: the actual screenshots you just captured, plus an export button.

u/elementik4 also pointed me at TipKit, so the rest of the features get surfaced later when they're relevant instead of all at once up front. u/andreimotin said to test it on someone who has never seen the app, not on myself, so I'm doing that this weekend with people who aren't developers. u/TravelCodeRepeat asked whether there's a contact button inside the app. There wasn't. There is now.

Three things I could use help with:

1. Screen Recording permission. Do you hard-gate the wizard on it, or let people click past it? The app does nothing without it, so letting someone through means they get a broken app. But blocking them on page 2 feels aggressive.
2. The first recording. Suggest a specific task, or let them pick their own? Suggested is faster, their own is more relevant to them. Can't decide.
3. Small stuff. Has anyone seen a first-run detail in another Mac app that you thought was clever? I mean the little things. A permission row that flips to a checkmark the second you grant it. Something that saves one click, or one moment of "wait, what now". Those details seem to be what makes an app feel finished, and I'd rather steal a good one than invent a mediocre one. This is also just a good excuse to hear which apps got it right, since I only ever see my own.

Thanks again to everyone who replied last time. It genuinely changed what I'm building this month.

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OSPaperScreen: Give your Mac's display a softer, paper-like feel

Hey Folks,

As someone working in tech, I spend most of my days looking at screens - writing code, reviewing designs, debugging problems, reading documentation, and joining meetings. Over time, I noticed that the screen itself became one of the most exhausting parts of my workday.

Modern displays are designed to be sharp, bright, and high contrast. While that is great for watching videos or viewing photos, spending 8–10+ hours every day in front of a glowing display can feel harsh, especially during long coding sessions or late-night work.

I started looking for a simple solution, something that could make the screen feel more natural and comfortable without changing the colors of everything I see. Most existing solutions focused on blue-light reduction or color temperature changes, but I didn't want to distort the display. I wanted the feeling of looking at a matte paper surface.

That idea became [PaperScreen\](https://github.com/Bearbobs/PaperScreen).

PaperScreen creates a subtle digital layer over your display that mimics the texture and softness of physical paper.

Instead of applying a color filter, it uses procedurally generated textures to introduce a gentle grain and reduce perceived contrast. The result is a calmer viewing experience that keeps your original colors intact while reducing the harshness of a perfectly smooth digital display.

PaperScreen is a lightweight macOS menu bar utility that transforms your screen into a more comfortable workspace. It is built for people who spend their lives behind screens — developers, designers, writers, researchers, and anyone who wants a more natural and comfortable digital workspace.

It is a small change to the display, but a big improvement to the feeling of using it every day. It's completely free and open source. Feel free to support it via donation if you want to.

Github: https://github.com/Bearbobs/PaperScreen

It is in active development, so please feel free to provide feedback and suggestions, and also star the repo for future updates

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A request to Mods

Hello Mods & fellow redditors,

In the past couple of months, I guess we can all agree that our subreddit (and the App Store) has become overcrowded with a bunch of AI apps across various (really?!) categories. The main reason (I think!) is the proliferation of AI and its companion apps, through which a user can now create their own apps with just a few credits or prompts. I see this as a positive development to an extent; beyond which, the line becomes super blurry and things start to roll downhill.

Anyone who regularly visits this subreddit will notice seeing the same pattern of apps - clipboard managers, Notch replacement apps, and Dictation apps - very often from different devs (/profiles). Rather than creating unique, we tend to see the same kinds of apps in different costumes, showcased differently using AI presentation.

>For context, Kalley Huang, writing for The New York Times, expressed that: "Last year, the number of new apps released in the App Store grew 30 percent to about 600,000, according to estimates by Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm. In the first half of this year, new apps doubled to about 560,000." (source).


And I am not here to say stop using AI for good or to save Nature (believe me, there are few who don't use AI for these reasons). In the same article, the author mentioned that the real people who're in danger are developers. Especially those whose 9-5 job is to make apps—either alone or in a small team—and whose livelihood depends completely on it. Now, all these AI-vibe coded apps don't only make the search worse but also overshadow these good apps and developers from the rest of the pool. As the article noted, even reviewers/content writers who used to be the messengers, are finding it difficult to cope up with the supply rate and eventually, start to ghost such emails/communications.


So, how about we start a monthly thread at the end of each month, where we all discuss, mention about their, basically, "Favorites of the month" with their use cases if any. This might improve the visibility among the crowd, and give them an another chance since most of these AI-apps either die out or got abandoned by the Dev itself sooner than we think.


Feel free to suggest your opinions; or disregard this post if you feel it's not appropriate. I just wanted to bring it out of my head 😀

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Simple Note-taking app with MCP or integration to AI?

Hey everybody,

I take a lot of notes during the day, most notes are temporary like random ideas, tasks I need to do or something that I want to remember to look up before bed.

Antinote performs that role great, but (don't hate the me for it 😄) opening the app, writing it done and closing it SORT OF throws me off the flow...

# What I have in my mind / looking for

It would be amazing to tell claude/codex "Hey add this to a note", and it would magically create a sticky note on my desktop, or for that matter in a simple and quick note taking app, similar to Antinote

I would also create a skill that checks if a specific note for that day exists with a:

TODO:

IN PROGRESS:

DONE:

structure (which I currently do manually) and then just have it manage tasks in the way I like it, along several other skills to make life a bit quicker

In the words of u/amerpie:

>A power user is just someone with a low tolerance for friction and a high tolerance for tinkering.

>They notice repeated friction, investigate whether it can be removed, and then spend 45 minutes automating a task that previously took eight seconds.

The only difference is that I won't be spending only 45 minutes on that, to scratch that itch I might end up creating another mac app 😂

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Difference between .NET and native code

Hi.

I am looking at Diarium journal, since it has my native language as an option. It is also developed in EU, which is a plus to me. And at first glance it looks advanced enough for my needs.

I have asked the developer and he says it is written in .NET, which as I understand is a way to make apps for more than one platform. However it is - as I understand - not similar to Electron. No Chromium and stuff.

Is this to be seen as a native app - he writes "

>It is built with .NET for macOS, which is basically a layer on top of native AppKit and other Apple APIs so I can develop my apps with C# across platforms and code-share business logic like for sync or database access. "

I may be a bit too "anal" when it comes to these things, but I rather pay someone who taked the time to develop for Mac without Electron or similar.

Also I prefer to pay those who takes the time to add more languages than English, and EU-based.

I do use Day One for now, but I would not mind trying something else and non US.

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The MOST satisfying way to change volume/brightness

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Looking for iMax OS app that...

Hi,

Awhile back I installed an app that will change the color of the screen after you reboot. It's before the wallpaper pic. It is just a solid color. I have looked and looked and can not figure out what app does this. Does anyone have an inkling as to what app will do this?

Thanks!

Nash

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Three paying subscribers. That's the milestone.
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OS Doppel — a focused, safe duplicate finder for macOS (not a system cleaner)

To be clear upfront: this isn't a system optimizer or junk cleaner — it doesn't touch caches, logs, or anything system-related, and it never scans anywhere you'd need to poke around in /System or /Library to actually clean. It's for one narrow thing: the duplicate files you create yourself just by using your computer — a document saved in two folders, a photo copied to a backup and never removed, a download you grabbed twice. That's it.
Scans a folder (or a whole disk) and groups duplicates by content — size + a sampled SHA-256 hash, not filenames, so renamed copies still get caught
One click to keep the oldest or newest copy of each group and mark the rest
Filter by file type (images, docs, installers, etc.), Quick Look preview before you delete anything
Deletes to Trash, never permanently, with a confirmation showing exactly how much space you'll free
System paths and Xcode Simulator data are hard-excluded, so a scan never turns up something you shouldn't touch
Native SwiftUI, no dependencies, free, MIT-licensed, EN/PL UI
It's not notarized (no Apple Developer account), so building it yourself from source takes 30 seconds and sidesteps Gatekeeper entirely — instructions in the README. Built with Claude as a pair-programming assistant, happy to answer questions about how it works.
GitHub: https://github.com/JerzyD72/Doppel

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