We now live in a world where pretty much everything is subscription based. Listen to music? Monthly subscription. Start a meditation habit? Monthly subscription. Faster Amazon deliveries? Monthly subscription. Life as a service, essentially.

While recurring revenue streams are great for the businesses offering them, as a consumer I find it increasingly harder to keep track all my active subscriptions. Free trials, different billing periods and automatic renewals have made it really difficult to stay on top of my finances.

So I created a little subscription tracker in Notion.

In this database I save all of my subscription services including their current status (active / paused / canceled), billing period (yearly / monthly) and calculate monthly and yearly costs.

Most importantly, I save the renewal date of each subscription and add a 1 week reminder so that I still have the option to cancel before a new payment hits my credit card.

I posted a public version of my subscription tracker here for you to copy.

Today is a special day for me:
After 6 months of hard work I’m finally launching monote.

I quit my job in October last year to learn how to code and build something of my own and monote is the result of these last few months!

So what is monote?
I often stumble upon interesting products on the web, but then can’t find them again later. I used to be a heavy user of Svpply back in the day, but never found a good alternative when it was shut down (RIP). I’ve tried to use alternatives like Pocket, Pinterest or Kit but none of these tools ever really worked for me.

So I decided to built my own tool: monote is a bookmarking app for products. It’s a little Chrome Extension that lives in your browser and whenever you see something interesting you can quickly add it to your Wants.

Instead of just having one big wishlist, you can organize your products in different collections.

Here some of mine:

• Books I Want to Read
• Furniture I Like (I just moved into a new flat)
• Things That Make Me More Productive

I also started using monote to keep track of how much stuff I own:

You can also build collections based on articles, videos, books or podcasts: I often find myself listening to podcasts or reading blog articles that mention a lot of products and wish there was a quick way to find and save them.

Here are a few examples:

• The Marc Andreessen Reading List
• Blue Bottle Brewing Tools
• Tim Ferriss’ best purchases under $100

I’m a total list junkie – so all collections on monote are also available as sortable lists.

Here is a collection of all products listed in Tools of Titans, for example. You can sort it alphabetically by product name, comment (the different interviewees in this case), product category, price or popularity (number of people on monote who Want the item).

I’m lousy coder and this is literally the first time I’m launching anything, so please excuse any bugs. This launch will hopefully give me some insight into what’s working and – more importantly – what isn’t. Once those things are fixed, I want to add some additional features. Here’s what’s on my to-do list:

• Try to get the extension to work on all sites
• Custom columns for collections
• Search
• Ability to Add/Want or Fork collections
• Firefox support

Okay, enough chit-chat. Head over to monote and give it a spin!

Let me know what you think over at Twitter or add your feedback to this Product Hunt thread.