ita, I used to use Day One as a "diary" but I am the WORST at keeping a diary. I couldn't keep one at age 14. I have tried multiple times and I am just bad at it.

f I'd been doing it, adding each thing as it came in would be easy, but going back and doing it for things I already have is such a chore..."

The way to deal with that: start doing that with all purchases forward, plus maybe your last purchase or two. If you never do it for past purchases, you never do, but at least you have it going forward. Plus if you are like me, once it becomes substantial it will call to you to do it going backwards.

I have a documentation and serial number Evernote notebook.

Ideally, each item has a picture of its serial plate, a picture of its front, a picture of its battery, a copy of the PDF user manual embedded, and any notes of technical support transactions typed up. Sometimes receipts, not always--should definitely do that more. I did start it for insurance purposes, because I couldn't start to estimate what I have around the house, but it became so useful for wanting to be sure about what I owned when I was out of the house or just in the other room (since it's on every computer including work and every mobile device) that I expanded it bigger than I'd expected. It's the "killer app" for Evernote for me since I started it almost two years ago.

It even has IP addresses for devices that I access that way, like the NAS', and a few printscreens of the router setup and a network diagram of my home network that really needs updating.

I couldn't keep one at age 14. I have tried multiple times and I am just bad at it.

I'm trying to think of things like in five years trying to remember when I broke my ankle. Where would I look for that? Where would I record it, product obsolescence aside, that I could retrieve that sort of info?

I'm using the 9th of August as my test entry in a number of different applications, including the standard Android calendar and Evernote and S Note to see how they each feel.

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start doing that with all purchases forward, plus maybe your last purchase or two

I'm enough of a dork that the two hours it took me to take the initial photos and look up the manuals was fun! I really liked that. The brief walkthrough I just did for a few batteries, face plates, and printer cartridges and to delete obsolete items was kinda fun too, since I'm 180 from TB, and find it easier to do bulk maintenance than keep up with adds and deletes in real time.

Where would I record it, product obsolescence aside, that I could retrieve that sort of info?

Does it need to be anything more than a simple timeline of events in a .txt document? Start each paragraph with a timestamp (my preference is YYYY-MM-DD), order the paragraphs by them.

Does it need to be anything more than a simple timeline of events in a .txt document? Start each paragraph with a timestamp (my preference is YYYY-MM-DD), order the paragraphs by them.

I'd need attachments. Pictures at a minimum, and embedded into the flow would be better. So far, in the experimentation, the "all day event" in the calendar is the sparest, but the S-Planner lets me add S-Notes as well as images, so that's quite nice.

What you're describing is how I'd implement in Evernote, probably. Still playing around there.

Chrome just randomly made a weird retro mishmash of my bookmarks that I cleaned up yesterday and the far past. It is midway through the hours and mega hours I put in to clean and sort them. I can't punch a browser in the face, right? Because identifying a face is hard. But I want to punch it.

Ok, photographers, tell me straight - Apple is just making up words now, right?

"dynamic local tone map"

"autofocus matrix metering"

Can you combine them? I suppose, if you want to focus based on information from all over the scene. I can't work out how it's useful, mind. Just that it could be done.

What do they say it is?

"autofocus matrix metering"

I can imagine what this is, and if it is what I think it is, it could be very cool: Figuring out the ideal focal point and exposure, based on all objects in the photo, rather than just focusing on one central object.

Matrix metering is something most SLR cameras have. It is, as Jon said about taking information from the whole frame rather than just spot metering which takes the information from one point.