An index of all growth maturity levels within the Digital Garden.
Index of Maturities
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- 17 May 2024
Blogging
Blogging is a timeline of shared information. It is a conversation between one person and a wider, unknown audience. It is just as valid if the audience is the blogger alone. Link to this site's blog Online reading Subscribe to RSS feed in your Newsreader My Relationship with Blogging I began blogging in the early 2000’s using Radioland.
- 17 May 2024
We Need Space to Think
This seems intuitive but what do we mean by it? What is Space? Space is the distance between one thing and another. Space is the distance between one time and another. The space can reduce the effect of noise. It raises the Signal to Noise Ratio. The more space the more distant the signal that can be heard.
- 4 May 2024
My Spotify Setup
The whole family is on Spotify for our music streaming1 Mobile Play of Out-of-Catalogue Items I have some old CDs and some which will never be on a streaming service. Playing them in the house via the desktop app is not a problem. The CDs have been ripped to flac format using fre:ac and are stored in my Windows Music folder for easy access and recognition by Spotify.
- 8 April 2024
Mediabank
Mediabank is the name given to our family Photography and video archive. It collects all digital media assets (hereafter media) into a single location managed by IMatch. As of March 2024 there are close to 38,000 items being catalogued and managed consuming 525GB. Storage LocationPurposeS:\memories\assetsFinal storage location for media in YYYY\mm -MMMM\ folders.S:\memories\databaseLocation of the Mediabank.imd5 file.S:\memories\database\Pack & GoPeriodic backups of the Mediabank environment using IMatch Pack & Go1.S:\memories\home videosVideos from when we had a video camera.
- 11 March 2024
Organising Digital Knowledge Across Multiple Systems
Digital knowledge comes at us in all forms and it can be a challenge to manage. This note describes how I manage information in my Personal Knowledge Management system. My system works when.. I am easily able to find something I’ve saved I am confident nothing important is missing Knowledge and Records It has taken many iterations of many systems to realise there is a difference between knowledge and records.
- 11 March 2024
Photography
My interests are Astrophotography, Landscape Photography and Panoramas. Digital Asset Management Mediabank My Photo Dating Strategy for Uncertain Dates IMatch - digital asset management application Equipment My Photography Gear My Camera History Resources My Photography Teachers The Goldfields Track - A bike ride in Buninyong, Victoria Map of Public Land Color Filters for Black-and-White Photography: A Complete Guide | PetaPixel Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet.jpg Tools Lightroom Show Focus Points Plugin for Lightroom Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Jeffrey’s “Smart-Collection Sync” Lightroom Plugin .
- 11 March 2024
Astronomy
There are two aspects to my astronomy hobbying. Direct visual observation using my Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 Binoculars and Astrophotography.
- 10 March 2024
Obsidian Sync
Obsidian Sync is a paid sync service from the developers of Obsidian. It is the most reliable sync solution I've found. Fix Uninitialized Sync Error This caused me all sorts of hell syncing across 3 systems. Each time I restarted Obsidian the sync was lost. The fix worked for me on Windows 10. This seems to be a rare error that we haven’t yet nailed down a pattern for.
- 10 March 2024
The Quantum Operating System
‘Quantum OS is my operating system which in no way suggests I am a computer. Rather, it is a set of notes that describe the rules and standards I have determined are best to manage my digital information as I see fit. CORE CONCEPT Organising Digital Knowledge Across Multiple Systems describes in detail where I store documents and how I organise them.
- 27 February 2024
Completed Things
Computer Games A list of computer games I’ve completed, added to as I complete them (which is pretty rare I must say compared to some people but which did have a decided uplift during COVID-19 lockdown in 2020). “Completion” means playing through the main story line but for some games, they are not possible to complete so if I’ve played what I think is a sufficient amount, they are listed here.
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- 18 May 2024
Friday on my Mind
Week 2 of my experiment taking Friday’s off work. The first four weeks are annual leave but I hope to be able to move that to a permanent work arrangement thereafter. The goal is to allow me to relax and pursue that which makes my heart sing. My last blog entry My Wednesday blog entry generated a “Page Not Found” 404 error and may not have shown up in your feed.
- 18 May 2024
RSS Minefield
You make one simple change. A few days ago I reorganised blog posts into a YYYY/MM folder structure. Within the processing, this added a two ../ into the links because the articles have moved downwards two folders. Four months ago, I added code to .replaceAll("../", "quantumgardener.info/") which had the impact of providing a link that looks like this: quantumgardener.info/https://quantumgardener.info/https://quantumgardener.info/notes/obsidian and that clearly ain’t right.
- 18 May 2024
Reflections on my Note Taking
I’m conscious as I head into a period of more writing that my note taking isn’t very good, or at least my note viewing after I take them. I think I take reasonable notes. I’ve had a focus on the The NoMa Method which has improved my not taking, when I remember to do so. Notes are filed well. Notes will link using forward and backlinks in Obsidian.
- 18 May 2024
The NoMa Method
The NoMa Method reminds me of the framework of questions used in a coaching conversation. ”NoMa” stands for Note Making, contrasted to Note Taking. I learned of it from Nick Milo. It’s similar because it is structured to pull out Distinctions and a way forward. It’s different because the focus is on note making and not inquiry into Way of Being.
- 17 May 2024
The Quantum Garden
The Quantum Garden means two things. It refers to my Obisidan vault where I write and journal, and the online version of my Digital Garden at quantumgardener.info. For more on what that’s all about see Designing The Quantum Garden. quantumgardener.blog is historical and mapped to the same site. I may not renew it.
- 15 May 2024
Now, 15 May 2024
There is a lot going on. Following my wife’s suggestion around Christmas, and after a lot of consideration, I’ve made a formal request to cut my work days from 5 to 4. Things haven’t been enjoyable for a while because I’ve not been busy and there is a catch-22 at play. The less busy I am, the worse I feel, but if I was fully busy I’d have hit my current burnout earlier.
- 14 May 2024
Cities Skylines
I got into Cities Skylines during COVID and i played a lot of it. Something like 200 hours which puts it second behind Elite - Dangerous for overall game time. There is something I find compelling in layout out roads, zoning areas of development and then fixing all the problems I created.
- 4 May 2024
IMatch to Socials
The IMatch to Socials system automates the addition, update and deletion of images between IMatch and flickr or pixelfed. I created it to reduce the time taken updating and managing photos across all three platforms. Features Uses metadata directly from the IMatch database and formats it (to my liking) for sharing with others.
- 3 May 2024
Now, 3 May 2024
Today I posted the documentation on my IMatch to Socials project. It’s been somewhat of a labour of love over the past couple of months to write code that will automate the upload and update of images from IMatch to my flickr and pixelfed accounts. It’s the second best code that I’ve ever written and I’m proud of how elegant it is.
- 30 March 2024
IMatch
IMatch is the software used to manage our family library of photos and videos called Mediabank. It has supported the family’s Photography in all forms for many years. I’ve owned every version since IMatch 3 over many years. It is a powerful digital asset management application. During that time the built-in features of the application have become more powerful and what I once needed scripting for, is now built-in.
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- 18 May 2024
Blog
Time-based notes as I share my thinking. “Once a blogger, always a blogger” Use the links below to access the blog’s archives, and you can also access my many thoughts on Blogging. I’m subscribed to EchoFeed for publication of blogs to Mastodon where I can reshare them.
- 14 May 2024
Cities Skylines II
I’ve just begun playing the successor to Cities Skylines after building a PC that’s capable of playing it. I had been waiting for the PlayStation 5 version (still delayed) but won’t bother. My first city is a real mess. That’s deliberate. I’ve been learning the tools and mechanics. There are improvements; roads especially that make everything smoother to play with.
- 11 March 2024
Astrophotography
For sure this page is a bit of a mess. Instructional guides Astrophotography 101: A Lesson Series on Photographing the Milky Way – Lonely Speck - large MOC with multiple articles to work through on all topics Planning Light Pollution Light Pollution Map for Bendigo - I have this app on my mobile phone.
- 11 March 2024
Calibre
Calibre is a cross-platform eBook management tool. It allows you to manage the metadata present in your eBooks. I use Calibre because Digital Rights Management is Unhealthy and share the database with calibre-web because I like its interface better.
- 11 March 2024
calibre-web
calibre-web provides a web interface into Calibre. I prefer it for quickly reviewing my library and marking books as read. This software is installed on my Synology DiskStation DS920+.
- 10 March 2024
Quantum OS
This is my operating system which in no way suggests I am a computer. Rather, it is a set of notes that describe the rules and standards I have determined are best to manage my digital information as I see fit.
- 3 January 2024
Canon R50 Mirrorless
Santa brought me a Canon R50 camera for Christmas in 2023. It's a noticeable improvement on the Canon 400D for Photography. Compared to the 400D, this camera gives me: Live view on the back screen More focusing points +/- 3 stops of exposure bracketing instead of +/- 2 ISO significantly greater than 1600 Lighter body 4K video recording More pixels of the mega kind Interface and technology that is 17 years further forward Hi-res viewfinder Sensor SizeResolutionPixel Pitch1APS-C6000 x 40005.34 µm Lenses Refer My Camera Lenses for a list of the lenses I have available to me.
- 3 January 2024
My Camera Lenses
Lenses for my Canon R50 and Canon 400D Photography. LensMin. FocusFilterLens HoodCanon RF-S 18-45mm f/4.5-6.3IS STM0.20m @18mm (AF)0.15M @ 18mm (MF)ø49mmEW-53Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM0.73m at 210ø55mmET-60BCanon EF-S 17–85mm f4-f5.6 USM)0.35m @macroø67mmEW73BCanon EF 50mm f1.8 STM0.35mø49mmES68.
- 3 January 2024
My First Steps as a Philosopher
Whenever I’m asked what I would do if I didn’t have to work, I’ve answered, “I’d be a philosopher.” Those who know me nod in agreement and don’t question it. Although I know deeply intuitively this it the correct answer, I haven’t been able to articulate why. My Mission Statement defines me as a scholar of life seeking wisdom.