Field notes

We keep a running log of small tools and habits that survived more than a month of real use. No rankings, no affiliate pitches — just what stayed in the workflow.

• A GitHub trending board that stays useful after the hype
• Tidying a photo library without tagging everything by hand
• Keeping offline copies of talks worth re-listening to
• Quiet home tech that ignores you until asked

What is here

Each note links to the longer write-up on the project site it came from. If a tool needs an account before it does anything useful, we usually skip it — that rule alone removed most of the candidates.

For prompt work, the photography prompt library is the one we actually reopen; for searching a photo archive by description we lean on AI photo search.

When a project only shows up once, the GitHomed trending board is where we check whether it moved at all — a star curve over a month filters the one-day spikes out on its own.