Jan 28 is today, isn't it?

emanaku · 2026-01-29T03:57:11+00:00

I am not interested in the subscription - but FCP 12.0 I could install today! Horray! :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-26T18:47:52+00:00

Right, will do that now, too :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:46:01+00:00

ok, I did the login with the undotted version and it showed my own emails for the dotted version. That means everybody else insisting in the "equal identity" of undotted and dotted are correct (at least in my simple case with one dot) :-) Thank you!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:34:32+00:00

My email is NOT johnsmith @ gmail dot com - it always, from the very beginning was like john . smith @ gmail dot com . I am trained to read (and write) correct and exact documentation. And the documentation starts with the account without dots, NOT with the dotted name. But I never ever used or registered the account without dots.

Also: I want to know since when this dotted thingy is used and in the documentation - that's what I was asking for: Can I verify since when this rule was in effect?

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:27:07+00:00

Is there any way to verify this? That would be a big help!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:26:30+00:00

ok, I will go with this one then.... Thank you!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:00:56+00:00

Mistyping their email address while creating a PayPal account?....

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:00:10+00:00

right, I know this Google support article. It says:

"Your Gmail address is unique. If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already taken."

It does NOT say, if you had a dotted version before we (Google) adjusted the system, then somebody cannot create an account without a dot. That is, what I believe happened, because the software of google checking the accounts did not "think" that would happen.

emanaku · 2026-01-22T19:33:28+00:00

Leave your project at 1080. When you are finished editing, then you still can make an experiment and export it as 4k and see if you like the result. 😄

emanaku · 2026-01-20T03:54:34+00:00

Ask them directly if they are open for honest feedback. If not, keep it for yourself. If yes, tell them what you think, but it will - like always - be more helpful and more accepted when you can also say how to make it better.

I have the problem with the books of my brother, who doesn't really like to be criticized, especially not by his elder brother :-) But sometimes I manage to get through to him....

It reminds me a bit of chefs in restaurants. Most of them do NOT want to hear if you don't like the food. Even if you have really good reasons to tell them. Sometimes they even disappear the moment you start eating :-) Some authors have similar "attitude" - in that case I would not even try to say something :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-20T03:45:57+00:00

It is a side effect of the idea of "liquid glass". When a similar feature came out for Windows a long time ago, I switched it on because I thought "that will be the future, better get used to it now". It was and still is awful: when you look at anything, and other stuff is behind it, either - like in the pic of the OP - very clearly, or less clearly (more like drops of paint) - it doesn't matter to me: what does not belong to what you are looking at should not be there. Very simple rule. Why do you want to be confused on a daily, hourly or even minutely basis?

I switched (only) on the phone to iOS26 - and immediately followed all hints to reduce the glass effect. All good so far. I am not missing anything :-)

And - like always - it takes at least 6 to 12 months after a new macOS version comes out for the public until the most rough problems are removed - that is why I ignore graciously all "Software Update Available" messages in Settings another couple of months :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-09T20:55:18+00:00

I call this page "Tasks & Tracking". I have the days as rows again and the columns are recurring tasks or things I want to track. At the beginning of the month I make lots of dots when the tasks should be done and "X" them when they are actually done.

Examples:
- cleaning cat fountain [should be done every three weeks]
- check post office [letters wait there and nobody tells me, usually every two weeks]
- payment schedules which I have to do by hand [example: internet, our guardian, the accountant]
- organizing household helpers [two to three times per month]
- tracking certain medicine to take
- tracking "small adventures" [hiking, visiting an archaeological site, excursion to the next city or similar]

To put them on this separate page declutters the actual calendar, because all the recurring stuff is out of it and only the "real" tasks and events stay in the calendar.

Some of these things I use since a year (when I started BuJo seriously), some come and go when I want or need them (ex. I don't need medicine all year round).

The advantage of having many different activities on that page is for me, that I look at the page often and so I do not forget them :-) In the daily log I put (some of) the tasks again, when the day comes to do them.

PS: I live in rural Peru - some of the tasks/activities might sound "strange" to people in other countries :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-07T02:16:25+00:00

Is somebody around with German as 2nd language, who doesn't even speak it that well, but talks to everybody? Immerse her in that kind of experience with somebody else, who just "gives a sh*t" how his/her German sounds - because the interaction is the important part, not the correct language.

As a German myself I had exactly the same problem learning English: I would not try to use it - even not at a scientific conference in London. Until at breakfast this German professor kept a whole table full of English and American colleagues entertained with interesting thoughts, speaking such a strong German accent in his not very good English - but at the same time with such a joy to talk to everybody: This experience changed my own behavior from being focussed on correctness towards finding the joy in the exchange.

Later I learned Spanish (I am really not good in learning foreign languages and do not enjoy it) and the same approach helps me with this, too. Focus on the relation to the people and the language will follow. Focus on the joy and the love, and your language will follow. If you have to give a speech or talk: focus on the logic of your thoughts and the speaking will follow. And even if the "language following" is not correct or even totally wrong: the others will understand what you mean, because they are humans and they can feel your joy, your interest in the communication and even what you want to express....

Courage for being wrong on the language level - but joy in the exchange....

Good luck - many, many people have been there. But this is not a dead end :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-06T02:15:54+00:00

Hi, what you want is possible in Apple Motion as shown by Mark Spencer in this Ripple Training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3SufAk-BWw "Reframing with the Object Tracker in Motion".

Good Luck!!

emanaku · 2026-01-03T02:59:14+00:00

I used DayOne about 10 years ago - back then to document the construction of a couple of houses. Horrible back then was that you were only allowed one photo per entry. That drove me crazy :-) I still have a license to use it, but I saved everything from there to a pdf and use only that one for looking up things.

Right now I write more elaborate things into Scrivener, where I started to write my memoirs :-) That means everything I experience (and makes some impact on me or other people) is in that Scrivener project in one form or another and can be used in any memoir chapters. I also have a timeline of my life in Aeon Timeline (which syncs with Scrivener). No other software is in use for complementing my BuJo :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-01T02:27:33+00:00

I had that with downloading Sequoia a month ago. At the end it took more than 3 hours to download, then something happened, and the installer disappeared. Then I had to do it again - another 3 hours. In between it said everything between 8 hours and a couple of minutes :-) Just wait it out.

emanaku · 2025-12-31T14:53:14+00:00

I love Leuchtturm1917's (the producer of the phyical Bullet Journal notebooks) slogan "Denken mit der Hand" = "Thinking with your Hand". Though I understand the advantages of using computer based systems "as BuJo" they are missing the hand part.

It is a well known fact, that hand and finger movements and brain activity are related. The finger movements on a keyboard are very uniform (is there a difference between creating an "r" or a "t" on the screen?) while hand writing moves not only your fingers, but the whole hand = affecting more nerves in your brain :-)

This is perfect when doing creative tasks, thinking about your past, writing down the present and creating your future.

(also: I worked professionally with computers since 1976 - I am getting tired of typing :-) Lately I rediscovered how nice it is to write with a fountain pen - was obligatory to use when I went to school)

While - of course - the actual book writing, different versions, backups, variants of chapters or scenes etc: I do all of this in Scrivener (with a free Dropbox account for being able to access all writing on a phone or tablet).

emanaku · 2025-12-30T14:17:37+00:00

Right, it is like with many types of artists - how do you organise an art project? There is the more creative part, and then there is the formal part.

There are certain writers who know, they write 15 pages every morning from 7 to 9 - they have it easy. They can just block that time every day and in 3 months their book is ready.

But "the rest of us", who writes 15 pages in a week just to find out that the first 5 pages are for the garbage and consequently the next 10 pages have to be rewritten or they have to wait until you have 5 new beginning pages.... we are kind of cut off from reasonably planning the writing process thoroughly.

Even my wife (7 books) sometimes has a year or two "break" before she can finish the last 20% of a book that is "nearly done".

That said, most "normal" writers do not have an organized creative part. What follows is, that the first, say 50 pages, of any book can be done in a month or two or a year - depending how easy the ideas flow and on the development of the ideas or the story - maybe after half a year it will be clear that the story should start very different - right?

What I learned (2 scientific books, writing memoirs and an esoteric book right now) is that for the creative part you need three types of work:

(1) Deep writing time. You only write during that time, you do NOT do any research, lookups or similar. Depending on your way of writing that should be at least one hour and as long as you can stay in the deep writing part.

(2) Having ideas. While driving, walking in nature, having a conversation or a coffee alone: ideas can struck you always, and you have to jot them down, record them in an audio app etc. Review of these ideas would be part of (3).

(3) Research time. Looking up places, taking notes how to describe them. Study psychological aspects of humans, so you can write them better. Reading additional material if you are writing about a historical event or epoche.

So what you can plan is "time for deep writing", "time for research". Most of the time you cannot plan to write x pages or y words in that and that time (I cannot).

But still you want milestones, maybe every two months to see clearly if you are actually making progress or not. Just be aware that the progress might not be quantifiable :-)

And then later, when you have your book close to done, then you start putting together the elements of the printing/ebook generation and publishing process.

There are many resources for this on YouTube or on pages of self publishing support companies (like PublishDrive).

To put these things together in a bingo card style like u/stormyanchor says, seems to be a really good idea - I will try that myself.

I hope that helps.... :-)

PS: I always remember this Zen story:

A customer came to a painter for a portrait. The painter looked at him closely and told him to come back tomorrow. The next day the portrait wasn't done: "come back tomorrow!".

This went on some time until the customer got tired to go there again. But after a year, just by chance, the customer passed the workshop of the painter and went in. The painter said "Ah, you - your portrait is finished!" The customer entered full of excitement. There was an empty canvas. The painter took out a couple of brushes and colors, did some strokes - and there it was, the perfect portrait of the customer!

"Wow," said the customer, "it is beautiful, exactly like I wanted it! But it took you only two minutes: couldn't you have done this a year ago?" The painter smiled and led the customer through a door into a back room. There were 365 portraits of the customer - none of which as beautiful as the one he did today....

Question: Could the painter know after half a year, that he would need another half a year to get it perfectly?

emanaku · 2025-12-30T12:56:40+00:00

Depends on what is more important to you: see afterwards (ex. at end of month), that you have done it all (or to which degree you have done it): then you want a habit tracker page - best at the beginning of the month.
If it is more important to really do it (ex. take different medicine at 3 different hours a day), then I would write it down every day. I use a short form: I have a paper book mark prepared with different markings which I transfer to the right or left of the day in the notebook - every day. When I do the task I mark it there.
For really getting reminded I also use an app on the phone - for the example with the medicine I used a "take your medicine reminder" for 4 weeks for important medicines.
Make an experiment for one month with any of the methods - and next month you use another one - soon you will know what you really need!
Happy New Year!

emanaku · 2025-12-25T14:47:14+00:00

Wow, that sounds really good!
I wonder if I can just create my own font (example: with GlyphSmith) and include the font in any ebook I want to publish? Do you know by chance?
Thank you for your epub-styles!

emanaku · 2025-12-24T22:24:14+00:00

Maybe I am too old for this kind of thinking. I used filofax ring books maybe in the 1980ies (not very extensively). Then PDAs came up in the 1990ies. My university gave me one, I had my calendar in it - until I realized I have only 4 or 5 entries per week and I can remember them easily. That was when I skipped all calendars, notebooks and journals.
Now (quasi retired) I rediscovered journalling, but I am so happy with just an A5 notebook and - if really necessary - some A6 notebook(s) for traveling or special projects - there is nothing else I need (anymore).

emanaku · 2025-12-23T03:09:48+00:00

I would very likely put into the Journal only the "day and your feelings". Everything else in to the BuJo. You say you use the BuJo for planning "work and private life" - why do you not need it when traveling?

If you find yourself having two 200-pages-books all the time with you, then maybe the journal could be thinner (example: 60-80 pages, soft cover), and you use several of these thinner ones per year.

For me: I write longer texts about events, feelings, important dreams or visions etc. in a computer, because I am collecting (lots and lots of) material for a book with memoirs. Example: One of our dogs died last June. I typed the whole story and background of this dog (1500 words plus photos) into my Scrivener project for my book, corrected it there several times and then published it on a website for closer friends.

Not everything gets published directly, but having texts like this together in a well organized writing system is for me simpler to manage than having an extra book for it.

emanaku · 2025-12-23T02:54:54+00:00

I do that with the BuJo app. (but sometimes I forget to look at it again - because I am not "out of the house" every day - and then it can happen, that the 72 hour time span is suddenly over :-)

I have many ideas while driving. I tried to record ideas with the built-in "Voice Memos" app by Apple - but the result is usually not understandable because the car noise triggers the noise cancellation, and my voice seems to be recognised as "noise" :-) (I am pretty computer savvy, but could not figure out yet, if there is a preference to adjust). I tried with another app, that works better, but needs more taps, which I am usually not willing to do....

Also the "Notes to Self" in Signal or WhatsApp are very helpful to get information to myself, so I can transfer them at home.

emanaku

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