Welcome to the first Sunday of 2026, everyone! I’m trusting everyone had a great holiday season, and we’re all geared up and ready to get back to work. 2026 will be a great year, so we may as well kick off the first week of the year with our best foot forward.

News breaking on a Saturday is rarely a good thing for the Sunday Edition. News anchors predictably cut to the most polarizing and demeaning questions in an attempt to push one side of a story. Social media floods with expert takes from non-expert positions. One person celebrates and the other shouts in agony.

My comment:

When I do a tax return, I probably weigh between 50 and 100 variables. “What if?” questions, “How much?” scenarios. You get the idea. How many questions does your physician ask you about a particular malady before they attempt a diagnosis? You’ll note that every single professional in the world leads every professional answer with “Well, you see, it depends.” Depends on what? Variables.

So, if your body or your tax return require numerous questions and answers before diagnosis or filing, is it reasonable to assess a geopolitical event on one reason only?

When someone says, “This is because of XYZ and XYZ only”, it’s far more likely that person doesn’t know the right questions to ask, the appropriate variables to weigh, or the correct consequences to ponder.

Nothing, absolutely nothing in life, is as easily answered as it seems. Nothing is ever obvious. If someone says something is obvious, it’s more likely they want to use this to hold over you and gain power over you.

Watch, wait, and listen. Then watch, wait, and listen some more. Maybe you’ll have an 1/8th of the story after you’ve repeated this cycle 10 times.

On a Popular American Parable

I read this parable in Morgan Housel’s The Art of Spending this week. It’s likely a popular parable, as I’ve heard it before.

One of the most powerful money tales is the parable of the Mexican fisherman. An American businessman visits Mexico and meets a local fisherman. The American is shocked to learn the fisherman only works a few hours a day. “What do you do with the rest of your time?” the American asks. “I sleep late, hang out with my family, read, take naps, and play guitar with my friends,” the fisherman says. “You’re doing this all wrong. I have an idea,” says the American. “You should work all day. Borrow money and buy another boat. Hire more fishermen to work for you. You could make so much money you’ll be retired in ten years.” “What would I do in retirement?” the fisherman asks. “You could sleep late, hang out with your family, read, take naps, and play guitar with your friends,” says the American.

Oh, good one!

There is one core difference between the American’s version of retirement and the Mexican fishermen’s version of life:

In the Mexican fishermen’s version, only one person gets to experience sleeping late, hanging out with friends, reading, and more: the fisherman. In the American’s version of retirement, (and under altruistic assumptions because the other side gets the altruistic benefit of the doubt), the Mexican fisherman and his colleagues and employees also get to sleep late, hanging out with family, read, take naps, and more.

The parable is designed to poke fun at the extra work, investment, and delayed gratification the American is presenting. But in the American picture, the extra work, investment, and delayed gratification ensures there is a far larger community to experience the benefits of retirement.

Human beings have presumably been around a long time. We’ve successfully weeded out many terrible actions; actions that limited human advancement for millennia. If investment, delayed gratification, and hard work produced terrible things for humanity, those traits would have been weeded out long ago.

Don’t underestimate the American’s dream in the parable. It’s more than worth delaying reading, taking naps, and hanging out with friends in the short term if it changes numerous lives in the long run.

Clinical Productivity

My friend Aly has started up a blog to satisfy a long-held dream of his. I imagine it’s going to be largely focused on physicians and managing a practice in the long run, but I’m sure there will be nuggets for everyone to digest. Aly is a super smart guy, so it’s best to glean what you can when he writes.

Meeting Aly has been a fun little story (to me, at least). Aly found my writing on The Sweet Setup years ago, and I may (or may not) have influenced a few of his technology purchases over the years (and certainly most recently). Fast-forward and we end up living pretty close to each other, operating in our careers and lives along the way. Meeting each other was coincidental, like so many friendships developed through the web. But it’s the discovery of another tech geek that has me giggling. We can speak in tech geek language — “You can write in Markdown” made perfect sense to the two of us but had our wives confused — and we’ve both tested various tech workflows over the years.

This has been one of the most rewarding parts about writing online. Writing keeps your mind sharp, yes. It gives you a platform to explore and discuss ideas, yes. But more than anything, writing here on The Newsprint has led me to meet so many remarkable people.

If you’ve been a long-time reader, reach out! I’d love to start up a conversation. Who knows — maybe you live just down the road.

My 2025 App of the Year: MyMind

Here’s a quick plug for my blog post this week. Here is a little blurb of my glowing review of MyMind:

Midway through 2025, after four or five months of using MyMind, I found a somewhat-competing app I thought might be able to replace MyMind for a fraction of the cost. I used that app for a month or so. Throughout that month, I would add something to the competing app, and I would add it to MyMind. I couldn’t let go of MyMind. I was unable to overcome MyMind’s design and ease of use. MyMind is so good, I left and came back.

It’s expensive, but MyMind is a phenomenal app worthy of your download.

“Your story must reflect change over time. A story cannot simply be a series of remarkable events. You must start out as one version of yourself and end as something new.”

— Matthew Dicks

The Second Cup

Clicks Communicator

You’ve surely seen a bunch on the pre-announcement of this interesting device. For now, I’ll wait until actual reviews hit the web. But count me intrigued — I have never once uttered the words “software keyboards are better than hardware keyboards” since I retired my BlackBerry Tour in 2011. I’m excited to read what people think of this device in the coming months.

Viwoods AiPaper Reader Colour

In the spirit of discovering devices that are dedicated to one particular thing and one particular thing only, this e-reader device from Viwoods looks like a great RSS, Readwise/read-later, and e-reading device for your bag.

By the time we’re done, we’re going to be carrying messenger bags filled to the brim with task-specific devices like a reMarkable, a Viwoods, and a Clicks, when an iPhone can replace them all.

Fresh Links From the Week

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• "Saut Hermès" MagSafe Card Holder
• Robert McCombe’s 2026 Calendar Wallpaper Pack
• Space: Life Planner
• Rimowa’s Case for the iPhone 17 Pro Max

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Happy New Year, everyone! Last year, in the last Sunday Edition of the year, I named Superhuman my 2024 app of the year. Superhuman’s ability to revamp how I thought of email. It decimated my email list, made email fun in many ways, and became so good at its job that I found myself not needing it anymore. I don’t use Superhuman anymore — that $40/month subscription is not for the feint of heart — but I stand by it to this day as the best email app on the market.

For 2025, I was looking for an app on my devices that had as big an impact as Superhuman had in 2024. And I didn’t have to look hard — no app has had a more meaningful impact on my software toolkit in 2025 than MyMind. MyMind has satisfied every archiving, pinning, saving, and storing itch I previously endured. The app’s beautiful design stands above any other “save-later” app out there, and its ease of use is completely unmatched. MyMind is utilizing AI in a unique and genuinely helpful way. The app is extra fast. The extension is beautiful and easy to use.

There is an endless list of good things to say about MyMind.

Here’s the best compliment I can give it:

Midway through 2025, after four or five months of using MyMind, I found a somewhat-competing app I thought might be able to replace MyMind for a fraction of the cost. I used that app for a month or so. Throughout that month, I would add something to the competing app, and I would add it to MyMind. I couldn’t let go of MyMind. I was unable to overcome MyMind’s design and ease of use. MyMind is so good, I left and came back.

I don’t think I’m going to be making that same mistake again.

The three core reasons I like MyMind:

1. Design — MyMind is magically simple, beautiful, and useful, all in one handful. There are features hidden all over the app for you to discover if you need them, or for you to ignore if you don’t. I love the customization and efforts put behind each individual type of item saved, making for a charcuterie board of thoughtful clippings.
2. Ease of use — You can likely water MyMind right down to two individual actions: saving and searching. You can save just about anything in the app, and the giant search bar at the top of the main view invites you to search for anything on your mind. Everything in the app just works beyond this. Tagging is automatic. Structure is automatic. Styling and design is automatic. It’s a true save-and-forget-it kind of app.
3. Expanding feature-set — 2025 seems to have been a momentous year for the MyMind team, with product cards being introduced, note and backlinks developed, and useful AI features applied across the app. Not only is the app useful as it is, but its expanding feature-set invites an increasing amount of work and saving in the future.

How people use MyMind will likely differ, too. I don’t feel MyMind is like, say, Things 3 — Things 3, you save tasks, build out projects, and work through your “get-things-done” system.

Conversely, MyMind has a wide range of potential functions. MyMind can be used quite simply as a personal pinboard. It can be used as a note-taking app — an increasingly useful set of note-taking features has MyMind particularly useful for jotting down thoughts. MyMind could be used as a personal journal, as an archive, as a read-later app, or as a quote book. And best of all, it seems the MyMind team is moving the app increasingly towards a true “second brain” option.

Here’s How I Use MyMind

I use MyMind first and foremost as a personal pinboard, wherein I save everything I want to reference later. This means everything: interesting links, products, PDFs, quotes, books, book reviews, important highlights, YouTube videos, interesting tweets or threads, images, and more.

I then use the chronological saving order for inspiration to post to Fresh Links or The Sunday Edition, or I will use the app to find other things that may relate to something I’m posting on the blog. MyMind’s saving features are also particularly useful for finding, say, a product to share with a friend, and then finding competing products you’ve found in your research.

Most recently, I’ve adopted a more robust highlighting workflow within Readwise, Readwise Reader, and Kindle, but absolute stunners always end up in MyMind as well. Now and then, doubling up my highlight saves is extra work — if the highlight happens to come through in a PDF on my reMarkable, getting it off the reMarkable and into MyMind usually requires an extra step or two. Overall, though, the process of saving highlights into MyMind is painless.

It’s especially painless thanks to MyMind’s Chrome extensions and integrations on Mac. Like any good saving app, you can save any link you come across in Chrome directly to MyMind, and it saves near instantly. But there’s more inside Chrome, too: You can read through an article in Chrome, highlight text you want to save to MyMind, right-click and send that highlight straight to MyMind. MyMind will format the highlight as a highlight (which is different from a quote or a regular note), and you can stay right within the reading environment without any extra work in MyMind.

The same goes for iOS, of course. The sharing feature in MyMind’s iOS app is beautiful, seamless, and perfectly functional — I haven’t had a misfire on any saving on iPhone or iPad. The ability to send highlights directly from Safari in iOS to MyMind isn’t available like it is in Chrome on the Mac, but perhaps they can build this in the future.

Finally, and most recently, the MyMind team has expanded the app’s note-taking features to include Markdown support and the ability to back-link to other notes or items in your MyMind. The potential implications of this could be huge for certain people — the ability to save your research and then build out your research by linking across all your sources could have lasting second brain consequences for knowledge management workflows. For now, as far as I can tell, this is only available in the web app, but I imagine it’ll expand far beyond the web app in 2026. I’ll also be looking to keep an eye on whether you can link to certain, say, clauses or sentences or blocks in certain notes, rather than a broader note itself. The more granular you can become with these types of note-taking workflows, the better.

Wrap Up

MyMind is as close to a perfect personal pinboard and save-later app I’ve ever come across. For whatever reason, I feel like I’ve burnt through all of them — Keep It, Anybox, to a degree Craft, Recall, Apple Notes, and more. MyMind is, simply put, the best saving app there is available right now.

It comes with a price tag, of course. At $12.99/month (USD) or $129/year, this is on the more expensive side of saving apps. I imagine it’ll give more than a few people pause.

My understanding is the MyMind team is small. And I don’t believe they have fallen prey to any of the big money ventures out there. Right now, MyMind feels safe from the whole “en-crapp-ification” thing people like to talk about (I neglect to cuss on this site). And, above all else, MyMind seems to be moving at a breakneck pace. Every time I take a look at the changelog, there’s something new and exciting to try out.

I feel I have ample reason to pick MyMind as my app of the year for 2025. It’s been the most impactful app on my personal life — just slightly more than Readwise and just slightly less than BlueJ has had on my work life. MyMind has removed any mental overhead caused by the great stuff I find and read each day.

I can’t wait to see where MyMind goes in 2026.