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Ideas for working smarter and living better.

Workflows, gentle productivity, and honest takes on tech, including how any photographer can build their own little tools, and why AI belongs on your admin, not your art.

LatestGetting found7 min read

Is your Pic-Time blog actually being seen?

Pic-Time blogs look great to couples, but Google struggles to read them and AI tools can't. A plain-English guide for wedding photographers.

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Workflow5 min read

Meet Suppliers, the directory that grows itself

One link to your couples, months before the day. They list who's on their team, it fills itself in from a shared Scottish directory, and after the wedding you copy the blog links, the email list and the Instagram tags in a click. A concept, and you can walk through it now.

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Behind the scenes5 min read

Meet Inspo, your shoot-day poses one swipe away

Some mornings you sit in the car before a shoot and your mind just goes blank. Inspo is the little tool I built for exactly that moment: a private, taggable board of the poses and references you trust, always a swipe away. Here's the story, and where it's headed.

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Behind the scenes5 min read

Meet Pace, and the end of guessing your turnaround times

For years I gave couples a delivery date that was really just a hopeful guess. So I built a little tool to measure how long my culling and editing actually take. It's called Pace, it's free, and here's the thinking behind it.

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Workflow6 min read

The little app that does my after-wedding admin for me

After every wedding there's a quiet pile of admin: blogging the suppliers, sharing the gallery, tagging everyone on Instagram. I found a tool that gets the couple to do the fiddly bit for me, months before the day, and it's handed my evenings back. Here's how I use it.

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Claude Code7 min read

You can build your own tools. Yes, you.

I don't have a tech background. I couldn't tell you my Python from my HTML. And yet I built this entire website and every tool on it, just by being curious and asking a lot of questions. Here's how, and why you can too.

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Perspective6 min read

AI should do your admin, not your art

So much of the AI conversation in photography is aimed at the wrong target, trying to automate the personal, creative, human parts. I think that's backwards. Let's give the robots the boring bits and keep the good stuff for ourselves.

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