I basically track everything with obsidian and spreadsheets. It’s a lot more work in the front, but it trains better habits for owning your own shit.

Don’t use services that track all your activity down. It should be pretty obvious as to why.

At the very minimum, log into all your credit cards and bank accounts and start cutting and pasting what you want to track into an excel spreadsheet. With a little youtube searching, you can make formulas and all kinds of good stuff that will get you a 90 percent accurate picture of all your activities.

It’s an interesting perspective.

And it kinda tracks historically. So many of the great vfx moments in cinema history came out of production lining up for a killer moment and then focusing whatever the technology was on hand into pulling it off.

Captain Disillusion did a great little essay on Flight of the Navigator that touches on this idea. What a world of difference in the outlook and implementation of skills and manpower.