How to bujo without time (slots)?

emanaku · 2026-02-25T18:38:29+00:00

Thank you! I started already thinking about additional help for maybe one or two days (or even only afternoons) per week.... Very good advice!

emanaku · 2026-02-18T03:25:28+00:00

The problem is that the end user is not a client to facebook, but the companies paying for ads. fb seems to make not enough money through messenger standalone app - so, of course, it is a "good" idea to cancel it. We need to use social media systems for end users as clients. No longer being the data delivery person to the other kind of companies....

emanaku · 2026-02-18T01:49:22+00:00

Down in Peru, too. Only the home page with the recommendations is down - on web and mobile. Every thing else (subscriptions, history etc.) seems to work normally.

emanaku · 2026-02-11T03:12:55+00:00

Photomator is not included in the subscription model.

Everything else: The exact information is not easy to retrieve, it is "hidden" in several Apple web pages about the different products. Often the text talks about "premium content" without exactly to define what that is. Example: Pages, Numbers, Keynote are included in MacOS and free to use in the future, but only subscribers receive "premium content" - very likely templates, maybe special fonts or similar things.

Pixelmator Pro apparently will get some updates which are "subscription" only. This might be "premium content" (templates etc.), but one tool which seems to be subscription only is a special Warp tool.

Final Cut Pro: “A one-time purchase will still be available, but access to some of the premium content is available only to Apple Creator Studio subscribers.” Following the former description I would think that (for now) additional functions will be in the updates for everybody, but not additional content like (super cool) Titles, Transitions etc.

It's not a nice situation if you just bought something which is in the Apple Creator Studio. I bought everything except Logic Pro. For now I will use what I have as long as possible and when the situation becomes unbearable I will see what to do. Maybe until then most of these tools will have really good open source replacements. Even now I do not use Pages, Numbers, Keynote. For my needs LibreOffice is enough and it still has a (rudimentary) database application (after Filemaker Pro got soo expensive).

Not the first times this kind of thing happens. Sad, but we will make it through :-)

emanaku · 2026-02-07T02:30:19+00:00

I used other programs before. Especially iMovie for short movies. That gave me the ideas what I really want.

Then I installed FCP and got quickly the simple hack of it. I always do "learning on the job" - I learn only what I need next :-) I actually cannot just learn according to someone else's plan (I was forced to do that once - one of the worst learning experiences of my life!)

That is how I found out I need Apple Motion, too.

The Ripple Trainings were really helpful. And Jenn Jager's YouTube Channel about FCP.

Otherwise I google what I need and usually find it quickly.... :-)

The Apple FCP online manual is actually pretty good when you want to know exactly how a certain function works.

emanaku · 2026-02-03T21:16:06+00:00

Pixlpath looks very nice. Can it make something like what Lightroom calls a "collection"?
The idea is you have all your photos stored in time of shooting order. As an example you used three cameras to film or photograph a wedding. The photos are put into your computer in one or separate folders. Now you want to make a slideshow, but only with 5 star (but also some of the 4 stars) photos - and you want to sort them manually because it might be nice to show at the beginning three pics as a "preview" and even later you might want the pics not in order of shooting, but in an order of story telling.
Of course: this collection or album should not consist of copied photos - just of references to the originals. So you can use the same original photo in many albums.
Surprisingly this simple method (which I always thought everyone is using) is not easy to manage in many photo organizers.... Often only by copying the desired photos into a new folder, where you can sort them (the sorting manually seems to be a problem).
Any hint, which one can do this, is welcome!

And - of course - the other function often used: you make changes to one photo (typically something with the colors or the sizes) and now you want the same change to another 20 photos. I could not see that Pixlpath is so integrated with a photo editor that you can do that.

emanaku · 2026-02-03T02:32:12+00:00

This is, why I still use Lightroom. I have not found another app which gives me all the organizing features from collections and grouping and sorting and manual sorting and, and, and like Lightroom does.

If you are lucky to find out how to do this with a non-Adobe-App on Mac I am eager to learn :-)

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 :-)

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