Life Trove slideshow and deep dive discussion

I love Notebook LM from Google. It is AI at its best. I gave it the link to Life Trove and here is what it had to say. Wonderfully insightful!

Slide Show

Deep dive discussion

Deep dive discussion: An older version from several months back

Fotojet Collage Maker

Picasa was discontinued so I needed to find another app to create my collages on Life Trove.  Fotojet has been a wonderful find.  It gives me far more control than Picasa in determining the layout and what photos show where.

Mind mapping with Mindmanager

I love mind mapping.  Mr Suttle, our Latin teacher, taught us how to do it at school. I used it extensively in both senior school and university. Then at Volvo, I discovered the wonders of MindManager, mind mapping software that took my mind mapping to a whole new level. I used it extensively at Volvo and Blackglass and in my English teaching. Most of all, though, I used it in my own life and it created the start of Compass (My life management system) and Wisdom Trove.  Much of the content in the maps also became parts of Life Trove (this blog).

I don't use mind mapping so much anymore since moving to Evernote, but I'm very thankful for the role it has played in my life.

Purpose 

Vision

Life as an art     View large

Values and Life Pillars

Focus
 

Self-knowledge

Affirmation

Habits

Compass

Taking action

Decision making

Life design

Insights

Humour

My life in review

Life highlights

2005 Highlights

Work experience

Guiding wisdom (that would become Wisdom Trove)

Decision making

English teaching

My favourite software just got better!!

Picasa is a free photo organising package that is powered by Google. They've just brought out a new upgrade that catapaults the functionality into a new league - especially when it comes to correcting and improving photos. It also allows you to do automatic "collages" and all kinds of other special effects at the touch of a button. The collage above literally took 10 seconds to create. I can't recommend Picasa more. 

Using Dreamweaver to create my first web site

In 2004, I used Macromedia Dreamweaver to create a home page and extended pages for Life Trove. 

Purchasing a Canon IXUS i in Cambridge for blogging

I bought this sublime little camera in 2004 when I started this blog and thought it would be nice to add images of our daily lives in Cambridge. It was my second digital camera. It was a tiny camera with no optical zoom but that limitation gave rise to wonderful creativity. I fell in love with photography in 2004 and 2005 and have been hooked ever since.
 

Mind mapping fun

Wow, this is cool! I've always loved mind mapping. I decided to get with it and find some software that would left me do it on the computer. I found a great program at this site and have been playing with it all afternoon. I did a map to look at my life from all it's angles and am delighted to see i'm getting much more balanced. The software is free for 31 days. Then $60 or something for the liscense. Robyn, you might be interested in this as i know you also love mind mapping. Lots of fun!! And could come in very useful at work too...

Using Blogger to start Life Trove, my online journal

In May 2004, I started this blog using Blogger which was purchased by Google. It's a powerful and free online app that I immediately fell in love with.