Life Trove progress: Active navigation item shown highlighted

 Using ChatGPT, the top navigation now shows where you are.  I've been wanting to do this for ages.

Life Trove progress: Random posts by label

I've added the ability to see a random posts for posts containing a particular label. ChatGPT helped me to do this.

Progress (2025)

Summary

Life Trove

Family research

• Family research on mum's side
• Myburghs past 3 generations
• Myburghs (1600 1800's)
• DNA test: Regions & traits

All Cape Town visits in order

• Duration & details (Sheet and in South Africa)
• Highlights intro text and photo collages

Friends

• Photos of Russell

  

Suno songs

• For mum
• For Jo
• For Tina
• 2 spiritual songs
• Song for Chris's sister

Transcribe

• Dad's letters to Jo (x2) while Jo overseas
• Jo's letter to Gramps on 80th birthday
• Gramps letter to Jo before wedding
• Matt's history project of Mike during war
• Poppa George's stories

Nostalgia

• Discovering the joys of birding
• TV shows as kid
• Cartoons as a kid
• Music as a kid
• Comics, Asterix, Tintin
• Dragons
• Toys: Lone Ranger & Tonto, Lego, Army men
• Labrador puppies
• Mike's stamps
• St Georges Cathedral & Choir
• Birding

Index (List of labels)

• Dynamic list from feed (Thanks ChatGPT)

Sort out redirect issue

• life-trove.com was not working

Movies

• ChatGPT analysis of my movie diary

Photography

Afrikaburn

• Take many portrait photos
• Create site & slideshow

Topaz

• PhotoAI freezing fixed by deleting files

Own outings (Starting in June)

• Outings: Cremorne Point, Chinese Garden, Cockatoo Island
• Hikes: Uloola Track, Lane Cove, Berowra, Malabar, Bradley's Head
• Museums: Barracks, Australian Museum, Museum of Sydney
• Birding: Ospreys at Long Reef, Tempe Wetland & Cook River, Nurragingy Reserve

Home

Rotting wood project

• Get 2 quotes, organise inspection, choose supplier, set up EGM approval
• Manage project  (Apr, May)
• Whatsapp group while away
• Get them to do my back balcony
• All rotten wood removed (including back gate and Martin's bannister). Looking great.

Grouting and cement

• My balcony
• Martin's balcony
• Back balcony
• Back courtyard on side
• Cement preventing leak under hot water cistern

Fix broken window with Chris

• Glass, Plaster, Paint

Garage leak

• Source leak with Martin
• Remove flower bed and replace with smaller (better) one with cement edging
• Cement cupboard edge to plug leak

Painting

• Lounge wood
• Steps
• My bedroom step
• Toilet floor touch up

Courtyards

• Buy outside chairs & paint them
• Table and chairs back courtyard
• Irrigation research & purchase

Small room

• New chair for office
• New curtains
• Fix study light switch

Compass     

Compass

• Daily review dashboard as tables and take out interim pages
• Daily reviews part of each day
• Add weekly view to Daily Tracking sheet

Spirituality

• Average of 44 mins meditation per day
• No cp porn 9.4 months

Life Design

• Outings
• All Trails app for hiking
• Daily cleaning and clearing

Appreciation

• Flesh out "Wonderful World" to add to sense of benevolence

Self-insight

• Evernote tag including: Enneagram, INTJ, Gene key, Me at my best
• What limits me

Finances

• Sell Canon 90D, 400 mm and 300 mm lens  ($3500)
• Find new housemate before South Africa (3 weeks to do it)
• Did not lose glasses
• Interest rates not decrease in Jul
• July balance $201K, Nov balance $210K

Admin

• Reset passwords to make harder

Purchases

• Washing machine
• Electric toothbrush
• Clippers

Movies

• Flxstor.com access

Health

Dex

• Under control (4 + 2 + 1)
• Very few days without
• Dx spare when meet Cosgrove

Tennis

• 42 games of tennis
• Purchase tennis racket

Teeth

• Flossing again after dentist

Meds

• Blood pressure meds
• Crestor for cholesterol

Wisdom Projects  (Life is a Movie)

Progress

• Going quotes and key statements route

Research

• Life, movies, dreams same due to structure of consciousness (AI)
• The hard problem of consciousness (AI)
• Transpersonal psychology
• Root metaphors

Structure

• Split narratives and metaphors into: 1. Worldview narratives and how root metaphors shape them   2. How spiritual metaphors can point to transcendent states of being.

Books

• Rational Mysticism  (John Horgan)
• The Grand Illusion (Steve Hagen)
• The Outer Limits of Reason (Noson S. Yanofsky)
• The Web of Life ( Fritjof Capra)
• Mysticism: Value and Validity of Mystical Experiences  (Antti Pilola)

Quote curation

• Limits of reason
• Limits of science
• Worldviews (as narratives)
• Paradigms
• Spirituality as experiential
• Universe as machine, organism, web
• Brain as computer
• Experience is the ground of all knowledge
• Emotional knowing: Emotions as a valid knowledge about reality
• Subjective experience as valid knowledge
• Art, intuition, imagination as valid knowledge

Source quotes

• Life as tree, circus, roller coaster e.t.c.
• Metaphors for mind
• Theory
• Root metaphors

Life Trove progress: Getting my South African visits in order

I got all my South Africa visits in order with an embedded sheet showing duration and synopsis. Also highlights introduction text and photo collages of highlights for each trip.

See South Africa highlights posts

Project progress: Life Trove

2025

Family research

• Family research on mum's side
• Myburghs past 3 generations
• Myburghs (1600 - 1800's)
• DNA test: Regions & traits

All Cape Town visits in order

• Duration & details (Sheet and in South Africa)
• Highlights intro text and photo collages

Friends

• Photos of Russell

Suno songs

• For mum
• For Jo
• 2 spiritual songs
• Song for Chris's sister

Transcribe

• Dad's letters to Jo (x2) while Jo overseas
• Jo's letter to Gramps on 80th birthday
• Gramps letter to Jo before wedding
• Matt's history project of Mike during war
• Poppa George's story

Nostalgia

• TV shows as kid
• Music as a kid
• Asterix
• Dragons
• Yoys: Lone Ranger & Tonto, Lego, Army men
• Labrador puppies
• Mike's stamps
• St Georges Cathedral
• Discovering the joys of birding

Index (List of labels)

• Dynamic list from feed (Thanks ChatGPT)

Sort out redirect issue

• life-trove.com was not working

Movies

• ChatGPT analysis of my movie diary

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2024

Books

• Books read by year with images
• Fiction & non-fiction

Movies

• Favourite movies by year with poster images
• Priceless moments: Add movie collages of favourite movies

Affirmation and encouragement

• All treasured Life Trove comments added to a page, categorised.

Spiritual dairy

• Add Spiritual journey pages to side navigation
• Spiritual Diary label
• Spiritual Journey overview moved to Sheets. (Allow links in text)
• Remove document title from top (for Life overview too)
• Add Nic hypnotherapy session
• Teachers and role models (Mandela, Attenborough, spiritual teachers & quotes, Nic, Geraldine quotes, Mr Cannon, Jenny Mallett)

Compass & Wisdom Trove

• Add mindmaps

Scanned family photos

• Dad, Gran, Gramps, Mum, Ally, Gramps war & acting
• Plays, beach, pool, UK visit, mum's London visit, horse riding, matric dance, graduation, Fab 4, Jo boyfriends, Playing in the garden, Matt, Youth
• Share family photos on Whatsapp: Gramps acting, Dad's trains, Gramps war stories

Family

• Jo and family 2019 - 2024 from Jo's Facebook

Music

• Favourite musicals playlists

Milestones

• Milestones → Family milestones + Friends milestones + My milestones

Code

• Add pencil edit code

Year highlights

• More categories in index list

Travel

• Custom maps (Sydney, Australia, Cape Town, Africa) with photographed places added
• South Africa visits: Add details and in order
• Custom Maps: 30 new maps
• Add "Exploring the World" with country labels to left side

Hiking

• Add new hiking collage

Nostalgia

• Computer games
• Tain set
• Stamp collecting: Add British mint stamps
• Rugby world cup photos
• Technology: Computers, Screens, Phones, Software, Headphones, PDA's, TV, HiFi, DVD

Home life

• Labels for Willow Road, Hammersmith Grove, Brooklands Court, McMahon's Point, King Street

Matt's 21st

• Matt speech videos & photos

Role models

• Role models, teachers & healers: Intro, books, quotes, insights

Blog tagline

• Under Blog Title "A celebration of treasured moments"

Design formatting

• Blog Header space equal for Life Trove & Wonder Trove

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2023

Overviews

• Life Overview and Spiritual Dairy now easily editable (Doc & Sheet)

Travel

• Interactive maps (Antarctica & Nepal)

Music

• Music with Spotify embeds (Childhood & teens, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's)

Hiking

• Hike dairy and stats in embedded sheets

Movies

• All movies I've ever seen added to list in Sheets.
• Movie diary & stats in embedded sheet.

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2022

Design

• Removed link underlines (and from images)
• "Up to top" icon improved visually

Surprise me

• Surprise me - checking tags etc.
• Change "surprise" me to "random memory"

Search

• Add search field

Content

• Add content (school photos, teachers, spiritual moments)
• Video content
• Add "Ode to things I love": Mountains, beaches, ice cream, river swimming
• Arctic photos
• South Africa bird photos
• Add more priceless moments
• Birding & Hiking in order

Stats

• Add Clicky

Spiritual diary

• Going through spiritual journal by year and honing and adding.

School years

• Add school photos.
• Add Jenny, Cannon, Mr Suttle

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2020

Random link

• Ability to see random post

Spiritual diary

• Spiritual journey table and page

Overview

• Life overview table

Screensaver

• Screensaver shows my photos

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2019

Wonder Trove

• Add Photography club photo-presentation (Google slides)
• Add wondrous places

Spiritual journey

• My spiritual journey - idea to have it, developing it
• Spirit Trove put into Life Trove - now integrated and cleaned up
• Add gratitude, progress, grateful, proud etc.

Life unfolding

• Extra details in sidebar of "Life so far”

Fotojet Collage

Strategy

• Life Trove = Wisdom Trove = Compass (curation, truth = sacredness, inspire embracing of life, compass is Wisdom Trove applied, shared on Life Trove)
• Life curation (idea and quotes)

Content

• Add passion projects
• Added Cambridge diary

Tags

• Moved all tags on left into site

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2017

• Spiritual journal online (Spirit Trove)

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2016

• Lightroom Universe and printing of photos
• Photos on my wall

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2013

• Mantra and quotes on site

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2014

• Poetry
• Add many labels
• Priceless moments per year
• Using Facebook to promote my photos, blog and life. Connect to friends.

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2011

• New design with bigger pictures
• Move over comments to Blogger
• Sue’s blog
• Comments transferred, top comments in one place
• Ally memories on the blog
• Sue safari video
• Audio
• Labels
• Created blog for photography (Wonder Trove)

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2010

• Memories (childhood, university, Old Mutual, Cambridge)
• Inspire mum's memories

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2009

Photography

• Viveza
• Lightroom
• Joined camera club
• Photography site

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2008

• Photography
• Start getting to know Lightroom
• Working on images

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2007

• Old letters and journals typed
• Letters to Jo typed

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2006

• Scanning old photos
• Consolidating the blog in South America, combining separate photos
• Dad memories
• Mum and Jo memories on blog

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Cambridge life: 2004 - 2005

• Start Life Trove with blogger
• Start photography
• Ixus-i to start, then Canon Powershot for Canada
• Capturing memories into Excel and Mindmanager (to later become part of the blog)
• Picasa

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London years: 2000 - 2003

Life Trove conception

• Surfing blogs between work - the seed for starting Life Trove in 2004

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Old Mutual years: 1994 - 1999

• Keep 1996 & 1997 travel journal on PSION
• Send travel letters and post cards home
• Start collecting past memories in Udaipur
• Compass on PSION (Mission statement, quotes)

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People connected with

People connected with

• Mum, Jo, Mike, Matt (including affirmations)
• Trish, Keira
• Ally (tribute)
• Robyn, Ian, Carleen
• Russell
• Julian
• Jane Culley
• Sue, Michael (inheritance?)
• Liz, Srini, Gavin, Elna
• Aimee, Sharon, Shushann, Chris, Xenia, Jilly
• Eva
• Nicola
• Volvo: Caroline, Andreas, Charlie, Tony, Andrew
• School: Sean, Colin
• Hamish, Pooja
• Srini, Gavin, Rajesh

Inspired others to blog

• Eva
• Russell
• Jo
• Pooja
• Hamish (NZ guy)
• Mum write her memories

Wanted to

• Matt
• Liz
• Shushann
• Elna

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Stats

Stats

• 66 pages in 52 mins (Mermaid Pools) 42 pages in 33 mins
• 63 pages in 73 mins (Barrington Tops)
• 62 pages of blog in 70 mins. Another 32 pages in 45 mins.
• 43 pages in 80 mins (Facebook with Le Perouse)
• 24 pages in 70 mins (USA)
• 145 pages in 4 hours 6 minutes !!!
• Stranger 1 hour looking at Kruger, Pantanol and other travels. 25 pages.

Family and friends

• Chrisel in blog for an hour
• Matt in blog for 1 or 2 hrs when could not sleep.
• Mum looking back
• Elizabeth and blog. 140 mins, 40 pages. Poetry moved to tears (esp. The Child) Photos filled with hope, awe, wonder, all's right with world.

Life Trove progress: Nostalgia

I add a new label "nostalgia" with posts of things that make me nostalgic. E.g. Computer games, train set, stamp collecting, rugby world cup photos.

Life Trove progress: Technology through the years

I've added technology as a sidebar navigation and lots of posts and labels about new technology I've adopted through my life. I love technology to much. What a time to be alive!

See Technology

Life Trove: Spiritual diary overview now available as an editable Google sheet

It was previously an unwieldy Microsoft doc (set up in 2023).  

See Spiritual Diary

 

Life Trove progress: Adding Spiritual Journey and labels to the side navigation

 

Life Trove progress: Using Google custom maps for travels and city outings

I've started making extensive use of Google custom maps on Life Trove. Wonderful for showing my travels and city explorations. Previously I used it sparingly for research ahead of a trip (e.g. Cambodia).

Life Trove progress: Adding books read each year and favourite movies (with images)

Books by year

 

Favourite movies by year

Progress (2024)

Big Items       

• Dex in order:  4 + 2  (+1)
• Daily Being: Average 48 mins / day
• Presence, Surrender, Spaciousness
• Lemon water,  Smoothies, Oats
• Skin cream
• Movies record = 49 docos, 142 movies, 15 TV, 14 rewatches = 220.
• Daily review & reminders
• Financial visibility (All expenses, Income) over time
• Daily walk with music
• 35 Photography Meetups
• Life Trove: Technology, role models, custom maps, stamps, scanned family photos

Life Trove

Books

• Books read by year with images
• Fiction & non-fiction

Movies

• Favourite movies by year with poster images
• Priceless moments: Add movie collages of favourite movies

Affirmation and encouragement

• All treasured Life Trove comments added to a page, categorised.

Spiritual dairy

• Add Spiritual journey pages to side navigation
• Spiritual Diary label
• Spiritual Journey overview moved to Sheets. (Allow links in text)
• Remove document title from top (for Life overview too)
• Add Nic hypnotherapy session
• Teachers and role models (Mandela, Attenborough, spiritual teachers & quotes, Nic, Geraldine quotes, Mr Cannon, Jenny Mallett)

Compass & Wisdom Trove

• Add mindmaps

Scanned family photos

• Dad, Gran, Gramps, Mum, Ally, Gramps war & acting
• Plays, beach, pool, UK visit, mum's London visit, horse riding, matric dance,  graduation,  Fab 4,  Jo boyfriends,  Playing in the garden, Matt, Youth
• Share family photos on Whatsapp: Gramps acting, Dad's trains, Gramps war stories (Matt recount)

Family

• Jo and family 2019 - 2024

Music

• Favourite musicals playlists

Milestones

• Milestones → Family milestones + Friends milestones + My milestones

Code

• Add pencil edit code

Year highlights

• More categories in index list

Travel

• Custom maps (Sydney, Australia, Cape Town, Africa) with photographed places added
• South Africa visits: Add details and in order
• Custom Maps:  30 new maps
• 1997 Travels in order
• Add "Exploring the World" with country labels to left side

Role models

• Role models, teachers & healers: Intro, books, quotes, insights

Blog tagline

• Under Blog Title "A celebration of treasured moments"

Hiking

• Add new hiking collage

Nostalgia

• Computer games
• TV series
• Music as a child
• Cartoons and comics
• Tain set
• Stamp collecting: Add British mint stamps
• Rugby world cup photos
• Technology: Computers, Screens, Phones, Software, Headphones, PDA's, TV, HiFi, DVD

Home life

• Labels for Willow Road, Hammersmith Grove, Brooklands Court, McMahon's Point, King Street

Matt's 21st

• Matt speech videos & photos

Home

Effortless doing

• Clear, unclutter, sweep in my room, kitchen, front courtyard

My room

• New desk
• 3 new Buddhas
• Paint 3 buddhas

Courtyards and balcony

• Remove plastic
• Cement on my balcony and back coutyard
• Martin's balcony step

Painting

• Stairs 
• Step in my room

Dining room

• Carpet changed around

Photography

Photography Meetup

• 39 outings (Tourist in Sydney)
• New friends: Jason, Libby, Stan, Matthew, Beata, John
• Beata & John outings
• Sydney map

Purchases

• iPhone 16 Pro with 5x zoom

Video

• Realisation I must share Canva video, not reduce quality in Vimeo

Lightroom process for Life Trove

• Use collections
• Export direct from Apple photos to Lightroom folder

AI

• Topaz sharpening, noise reduction, pixel enlargement
• Lightroom & Photoshop: AI remove and replace 

Service

• Portraits for Lydia

Lightroom Universe

• Nepal, Iceland, Antarctica into database
• Backups in order (Sheet)

Compass  

Being

• Sink into creative emptiness. 
• Thank you for Presence. Thank you for this.
• Meditation: Average  48 mins / day
• Yoga mat, head and back roller
• Effortless daily clearing & sweeping

Evernote

• Add ► to Shortcut headings
• Add ◉ to work in progress
• Remove Life: from note titles and replace with →
• Learn to do note links that open App

Mac desktop

• Widgets: Year, Month, Week complete / remaining
• Add Mood chart excel file into Mac Dock

Music

• Music while work, walk and commute
• Top 15% of Spotify listeners (> 400 hours)

Task management

• Task log categorised
• Task focus map handwritten, then mindmap

Progress

• Fleshed out for Photography, Life is a Movie, Life Trove, Compass
• Task log → Year so far (Progress)   →  Progress for each project

Productivity

• Dex: Power of 4 + 2 (+1 )

Purchase

• Hair clippers (x2)
• iPhone 16 pro
• Double fitted sheet
• Smart watch
• Yoga mat and head rest, back massager

Finances

• Financial review fleshed out: More sub categories,  See levy etc. over time, Add financial commitments and Income for view over time
• Invest $21K
• Increase Fran rent by $15 per week (to $565)
• Deposit cash (coins) into HSBC
• Sell car for $500
• Sell 400 mm lens $ 950
• Tax in order: HSBC statements downloaded, housemate dates
• Household expenses tax deductible
• Triaxil leak: I moved it on, facilitating firing of engineer, saving $11K

Movies

• Letterboxd subscription, upload movies watched
• Unwatched twist movies list

iPad

• Get it back from Gavin and set up folders etc.
• iPad pencil and Task Focus handwritten

Tools

• Xmind mindmap

Cheap purchases 

• Watch $ 50
• iPad Pencil
• Skin moisturiser
• Lube
• Tennis balls

Health

Exercise

• Regular Ball's Head walk
• Average of 5.2 km walked per day 
• Walking: 178 days
• New walking routes
• Listen to music on walks
• Tennis

Dex in order

• 4+2+1
• Increasingly, no days without

Cholesterol

• Research diet
• Start Crestor medication

Diet

• Smoothie (fruit)
• Oats porridge
• Peanut butter

Liquids

• Lemon water

Pulse

• Smart watch purchased and pulse monitored (resting pulse = 75)

Skin

• Skin check & mole removed
• Face skin cream

Wisdom Projects

Life is God's Movie

Essential Version

• Move first edition to Google docs with tabs

Notebook LM

• Amazing 20 minute podcast. Super motivating.

Source quotes

• Memory
• Illusion of the self
• Self enquiry
• Conditioning,  Life scripts
• Authority
• Left verse Right brain:  Jill Bolte Taylor, Ian Gilchrest
• Sloww book summaries

Content

• How mystical knowledge relates to and interacts with other forms of knowledge (rational, empirical, intuitive, cultural etc.)

Curated quotes

• Self-transcendence
• Left verse Right brain 

Books

• The Ego Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
• There is No You (Andrew Halaw)
• The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact  (Colin McGinn)
• The Matter with Things  (Iain McGilchrist)
• God is Nothingness  (Andre Halaw)
• Being Myself (Rupert Spira)
• The Grand Biocentric Design (Robert Lanza)
• The Master & His Emmisary (Ian Gilchrist)
• Seeing no Self: Essential Inquiries  that Reveal Our Nondual Nature (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• Beyond Illusion: Exploring the Six Illusions that Cause  Our Mistaken Belief in a Separate Self (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• Selfless Service  (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
• What Am I? A Study in Non-Volitional Living (Galen Sharp)
• Science Ideated (Bernardo Kastrup)

Books reread 

• Illusion of the Self (Bruce Hood)
• The Ego Trick  (Julian Baggini)
• Awakening (Sam Harris)
• The Happiness Trap (Russ Harris)

Daily email

• Rupert Spira
• Katrijn Van Oudheusden

Life & Spiritual Coaching 

• Strategy
• Life design process
• Values, What we love to do
• Xenia sessions
• Doc with my results and Xenia

Wisdom Trove 

• Backup database
• Wisdom Trove updated to latest Wordpress & Enfold template (Thanks Rujuta for $400)

 

Life Trove progress: Life overview now available as an editable Google sheet)

 Previously it was an html table, finicky to edit.

See Life Overview

Life Trove progress: Adding Spotify playlist embeds

 Including nostalgic music for each decade of my life.

See Spotify Playlists

Chat GPT and the explosion of AI

Utterly ground breaking.  Ever since Gavin alerted me to this, I've been utterly hooked. It's become my 2nd brain to which my real brain plays second fiddle!  It's power to generate new ideas as part of the creative process is phenomenal. So useful for my writing. 90% of the time I now use ChatGPT to find out information rather than Google. Prompting, not searching, has become the new art.

Progress (2023)

Movies

• See 204 movies
• Most memorable scenes field
• Big list of movies to watch.
• Movie diary in Google Sheets and embedded in Life Trove including movies watched and movie stats.
• Add all movies I've ever seen to Movie sheet. Over 2000 movies in total.
• Continue movie twist project with details of twist in sheet.
• Childhood TV added
• Movie purpose, vision, principles, strategy
• Life Trove: Movies in order (movie posters, new labels)
• Director and Actor sheet with movies and # seen for each
• Movie genres and themes developed.
• Movie projects (e.g. music, biopic)

Photography

• Sensor cleaning
• Topaz AI sharpening and face recovery

Health

• Skin  check
• Poop check
• Oven roasted vegetables in Air Fryer
• Press ups

Being

• Meditation timers with interim chimes
• Formal Being very integrated into life (Ave: 21 mins per day, Total: 5.2 days)

Music

• Music while work
• Music playlists enriched & in order
• Movie themes playlist
• Nostalgia playlists (Childhood, TV, 20's, 30's, 40's)
• Life Trove Spotify embeds
• Music artist spreadsheet

Home

Home

• Toilet seat and shower head

Garden

• Tree removed and crack filled
• Back wood section with space
• New plants planted
• Irrigation system modified (with tricklers)
• Tiles cleaned with chlorine
• Front courtyard hanging garden sorted (climber controlled, new plants)
• Front courtyard hanging garden water controlled

Life Trove

• Life overview and Spiritual Dairy now easily editable
• Interactive maps (Antarctica & Nepal)
• Music with Spotify embeds
• Hike dairy and stats in embedded sheets
• Movie dairy & stats in embedded sheet

Compass

Compass Evernote

• Wisdom Trove notes moved out of old Compass notebook (all key notes now moved)
• Daily dashboard with tables & links.
• Daily reminders (Strategy, Wisdom, Assurance, Year so Far, Gratitude, Being, Creating)
• Daily review
• Custom Year calendar split into work & events
• Whimsical diagrams
• Decision template
• Add  shortcodes (E.g. Prox) to all key notes

Finances

• Invest  $10K in Dividend Fund
• With Macquarrie, visibility of food, transport expenses etc.

Purchases

Purchases electronic

• Magic mouse (rechargable)
• 4 more Apple tags

Purchases home

• Oil sprayer
• Stove
• Airfryer

Purchased for photography

• RF 14 - 35 lens
• RF 100 - 400 lens
• Sensor blower
• Topaz

Purchases Hiking

• Hiking backpack
• Hiking filter bottle (lost)
• Sleeping bag liner
• Hiking boots

Wisdom Trove and Life is God's Movie

Life is God's movie

• Distilled Summary 
• Feedback on summary from Tania, Aimee, Shushann
• Putting quote topics in order in Evernote (lgmx) and Scrivener
• Quotes into sheets: Existing & new with title shading
• Scrivener add sub-levels in binder with special icons
• Chat GPT
• Principles: Top down verse Bottom up
• Experiential knowing verse Empirical & Rational knowing
• Metaphysical quotes and research
• Experience → Knowledge, Understanding
• Source Quotes:  Plots, Story, Narrative, Experience, Movies, Cinema
• David Chalmers: Reality +
• Joan Tollifson quotes
• Protagonist flaws & tribulations make for rich story: Aimee in tears
• Begin Metaphors for God in Scrivener

Wisdom Trove

• In order: Essays and quotes put into Google sheets and docs
• Add keywords to quote titles in Evernote
• SEO meeting with Stuart

Topics

• Dreaming
• Deep sleep
• Solipsism
• Thought experiments
• Don't take life too seriously
• Themes, Plots
• Villian, Hero, Protagonists
• Don't take life too seriously
• Thought experiments,
• Design your life
• Create the future
• Intellect
• Embrace your role but not lose identity
• Immersive experiences

Kindle

• Create book collections

Macquarie is such an improvement over HSBC

• Much better interest rate.
• Much more user friendly interface.
• AI categories expenses so I can see how much I spend on different categories (e.g. groceries, restaurants, petrol etc.)

Using custom icons in my chrome bookmarks and Mac desktop and dock

I love the look of them.  It really adds to my enjoyment of using my Mac.

Getting my first mirrorless camera: A Canon R5

I bought this amazing camera to take with me to The Arctic thanks to the generosity of a cash gift from Michael in tribute to Sue.  I was absolutely blown away by the camera, especially by it's incredible face recognition and eye tracking. It automatically focuses in on the eye of an animal or bird, allowing you to concentrate on the composure of the shot instead. It allowed me to get amazing photos of polar bears and birds in flight. It really is ground break technology that allows you to take wildlife photography to a new level.

I bought a series of lenses to go with the camera. My favourite is the 100 - 500 mm lens which is an incredible wildlife lens. It focuses really quickly and is wonderfully sharp.

Specifications

• Sensor: 45-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor
• Image Stabilization: 5-axis in-body image stabilization that provides up to 8 stops of shake correction
• Subject Tracking: Deep learning technology to detect humans, animals (dogs, cats, birds), and vehicles
•  Up to 12 fps with the mechanical shutter and 20 fps with the electronic (silent) shutter
• Video Capabilities: 8K Recording
• Viewfinder: 5.76-million-dot OLED electronic viewfinder with a 120 fps refresh rate
• Rear Screen: 3.2-inch fully articulating touchscreen with 2.1 million dots
• Storage: Dual memory card slots featuring one CFexpress slot and one UHS-II SD slot
• Build: Weather-sealed magnesium alloy body
• Weight: Approx. 650 g (body only) or 738 g with battery and card

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Topaz Photo AI

This amazing software allows one to sharpen images, remove noise and increase the resolution of an image. It has proven invaluable, especially on my trips to Antarctica, The Arctic and Iceland to really make my images pop.