Low hanging fruit but Sharesight is amazing, I can see my whole portfolio in one place, benchmark all of my investments against an index, make sure everything is on track and focus on long term performance. It's the only other subscription I have outside of SM and I happily pay it each year.

Also, for research Google Finance is where I spend the most time. Not paid but I find it intuitive and it's my go to for initially getting my head around the finances of a new idea. Also great for making watchlists.

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I have been paying for ShareSight for a number of years too. It's got its quirks, and is somewhat pricey,but I know of no better tool that makes tracking an ordinary retail investor's portfolio and tax reporting more convenient.

Thanks for the prompt @Slomo, I'd have to agree with @Lewis & @thunderhead regarding ShareSight (and google finance to some degree). I'm only in my first full year on ShareSight and with 4 x portfolios and so many different and available form factors (PC, iPad, android & iOS versions) and most importantly cloud based, I feel like it was a good decision. I was previously paying more annually for a single PC based solution by Maus SW called StockEasy, which did do all of my tax reporting, etc, but was a fully manual input and only a single instance on a single PC (so highly unworkable unless I went to my home office).

A couple of other tools I use and really enjoy (other than Strawman Premium, which has been invaluable) include:

1. Commsec. So even though I use Selfwealth as my Chess sponsor and do all trades (irrespective of value) for $9.50, I still prefer Commsec for their tools and better mobile app. So I simply replicate all of my portfolios as issuer sponsored shares in my Commsec accounts (that I left running without any holdings) and input my own qty and buy prices to track overall portfolio performance. Then you get real-time pricing and financial info as well on all of the ASX.
2. Motley Fool Podcast (machine) with our fearless leader @Strawman and Scott Phillips on Fridays and Sundays. Always enjoyable and always some snippet gained by listening to these two have some serious and not so serious banter backwards and forth!!

@JPPicard mate, rip snorter of an article from you again this week I’m sitting on a beach in South Sumatra and this was worthy of me delaying a surf. Recommended.

https://goforgrowthco.substack.com/p/rule-of-40

@Noddy74 send a picture, the beach not the substack

Only cos you asked for it @Solvetheriddle

ignore the bloke taking up half the picture. He’s got a head for radio.

The wave over my left shoulder is called the peak (slow today) and in the far distance you can see Leftovers (good wave but real shallow reef bottom)

looks great enjoy

Here is a really good plane speeken article on how Boards work and their roles and responsibilities.

CFO Secrets (by Secret CFO) is a worthwhile subscribe/follow that some of you may already have cottoned on to in the past year. I've learnt a lot from his deep understanding of topics such as M&A, executive remuneration, working capital optimisation and various business models - and all for the investment of just 10-15 minutes a week.