Organic juice for breakfast: Peach, apricot and apple juice; cranberry; and a splash of ginger. Yum! 📷

A pint glass with a glass drinking straw, filled with orange juice with red juice swirled through it. Set on a kitchen counter top, with a grey tray with white polka dots as a background.

For me, half the battle with Productivity is simply being able to acknowledge and prioritise tasks.

When I am able to do that, the doing of it all just works itself out. As long as I am being present with myself.

Like, yes. Now is the time to tackle tasks.

Or, no. I know I have a long list, and there’s some important stuff to do. But I am being asked to rest, play, create, whatever.

It’s like. Being is the platform for Doing to take place.

Running headlong into Doing can be beneficial but it often leaves me burnt out, scattered, depleted.

A few moments of stillness, a million times a day. It’s medicine for the Productive Soul. 🧘‍♀️

Today has been massively productive, but I didn’t get anything done (that I planned).

Also feeling a little better with the bug. But it’s slow going.

I think I might be coming out of Covid now. But still cancelling everything this week. Just in case.

I still feel very shitty. But certain symptoms are easing right back today. 1

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I haven’t slept properly past 2am for a couple of weeks now. It’s very tiring

I just got called by a scammer claiming to be from my bank. He knew a lot about me. I feel very yucky now.

I stopped using this fun productivity app years ago when development was abandoned. Clear was an OG iOS app widely praised for it’s intuitive design and pleasing aesthetic. And finally, it’s back! Now called Clear Lists..

Logo for Clear Lists app

Morning porridge with a view

A view over a pond in winter. In the foreground, a hand holding a food thermos with porridge just visible inside.

And of course, I am still shooting and creating new projects to all the time. So they are being edited and processed alongside the Lightroom Odyssey that’s happening in my archives.

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Reply about my Lightroom Odyssey: Long story but I have 20 years of 170K files mixed in with other non-image files, many dupes, some with non-obvious file names/folder names, and/or no metadata. I need to eyeball the files and leave folder structures intact as I move them into my new folder structure on an adhoc basis. Some of this I have to do outside Lightroom so I don’t orphan files that belong together. I’m doing it piecemeal so I can find old projects and collate before I maybe publish them. I have done Years so far. Months will be done as I go along, as a way of finding projects and a bit more care needs to be taken. I expect this process to take many months or maybe years. 12

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  2. also posted as a post because I’m not sure about Micro.blog reply length, and I’d quite like to this to be its own post too, so thanks for the question ↩︎

Good morning clouds

Fluffy orange clouds seen above the roof of a house. Viewed through a window.

Another busy day in Lightroom. I have now got all my files in collections by Year. Now breaking down Years into Months, then projects. It’s tedious but necessary to do it manually (with filters and smart collections to help).

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I love your precious heart 12

  1. goosebumps! when this came on ↩︎

  2. Lyrics: Never Tear Us Apart, by INXS ↩︎

I think I have Covid again. It’s the second time in 3 months and the fourth time overall. But not very serious this time round, I’m just very wiped out and low energy. (Last time it turned into Long Covid and I felt like I was dying.)

It is possible to upload video files at original quality on Micro.blog. it’s not currently supported..

The video I’m uploading is a 1080p mp4, 47MB and pretty good quality … But micro.blog is converting it to a 50MB file at 360p that looks really awful … I would rather have the original file hosted on micro.blog as I have found a suitable compression that works for the video.

But @manton suggested a hack, that works perfectly.

Simply upload with a different file extension and rename afterwards.

✱ I have booked on a community pottery course starting next month. So excited! I did it last year and it was awesome. I’m so happy I’m doing it again. It helped me get back into community again after being on “Lockdown” for so long.

✱ I’m happy to be off social media. I left Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others one to three years ago.

But I found myself in a bit of a social void, online and offline.

I still need to express myself, and moving my online efforts to Micro.blog seems to have helped with that.

✱ Tall black Americano, blonde roast Starbucks ☕️ in my reusable cup.

A glass drinking cup with a silicone band around it, containing black coffee.

Something has gone seriously wrong with iOS shortcuts on my phone since iOS 17. Have been unable to use some of my shortcuts since, and in trying to resolve today have lost them all. I’m sure they’re still there somewhere in my account, but 😩😩😩

✱ Fresh air! Aaaaaaaaaah

A view of a pond surrounded by trees. Most are bare of leaves. One is covered in ivy. Blue sky reflected on the water.

Fortnite is so sweaty in the holidays.

But I do get a lot of time to play online with the kids. They’re much better than me. But I secured us a scrappy, but deserved Victory Royale this morning.

Gets the blood pumping! 🎮

And in Lightroom, I’ve just been continuing the years-long project of trying to gather all my work. My first digital photos were made in 2003. And I also started digitising my film negs and slides back then too.

One thing I am appreciating is 2005, 2006 were perhaps my best ever years of photography.

Unfortunately I have the best part of 200K files to go through. Many, many, many of them are dupes (backups of backups of backups). It’s taking a lot of time and patience to get through them.

But it will be worth it because I have so many precious memories in there. Of my children, my family. And of course, my precious art.

MY PRECIOUS ARRRRRRT 😇