Inspired by the time-tested practice of marginalia, the art of note-taking inside of books, I wanted to explore note taking in digital books. In most apps like Amazon’s Kindle, I can highlight, notate and save until next time I open…
“Finally!” - all Adobe Lightroom users I’ve been able to synchronize my custom film effects from the desktop to my mobile iOS devices so now I can edit my images anywhere. On my iPhone On my iPad This is a…
Here’s an overview about my thought processes and cycles. Steps ten and eleven is the hard part because…number twelve. Repeat the cycle again and again. Get an idea 1. See, hear, smell, taste, touch something interesting 2. Obsess about it…
Instagram sucks. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. VSCO has a great business model. They make and sell digital products to help enhance your photography and provide a social platform to host too. VSCO desktop presets for…
After several free trials, beta tests and tribulations I have chosen iA Writer as my tool to help me create stories I want to tell (not calling myself a writer or author yet). The software for me had to pass…
Time to evaluate my progress for my Groundhog Resolutions, the 10th annual attempt at creating life-long habits for myself. I’ve discovered that right after the end of the year holidays I am not mentally or physically capable of sticking with…
I grew up watching great action movies like Star Wars, Die Hard and Indiana Jones. Adventure stories have stood the test of time, why is that? Because they are us. We identify with these stories because life is adventurous. Or…
After more than a few weeks (lost track of days) I think I’ve kicked the soda pop habit. I still have cravings, headaches and withdrawals from the cold, sweet concoction but have resisted. I’ve been managing with a lot of…
I am reading and curating a lot lately for various reasons. Inspiration, mostly but also for reflection and knowledge. What I am not doing lately is creating. I learn better by doing but haven’t been inspired yet. This doesn’t make…
While reading through some inspirational articles on writing, I came across a recommendation for the Scrivener book-writing software. While it is geared mostly towards Mac users there is a passable Windows version. This software is more like a workstation than…
“Five hundred years later, Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks are around to astonish and inspire us. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks, if we work up the initiative to start writing them, will be around to astonish and inspire out…
I’m somewhere between “harder than I thought” and “This is gonna take some work”.
How beneficial is all this research I am doing for various projects if if I’m not willing to apply it? I tend to overthink and research topics to the point I am overwhelmed and paralyzed into inaction. I will do…
Attempts at putting ten year old thoughts and plots into a novel is frustrating. Finding the right/write tools even more so. They matter and then they don’t. Recovered from the Internet Archive.
“I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.”
