2025.09

• Received the lost-in-mail Out of Memory Vol. 10 photobook after six weeks — turned out chunkier than expected.
• Started Greg Girard’s Fotofilmic book program; presenting my photography projects.
• Repaired my Contax G2 camera body by cleaning contacts and fixing the autofocus hunting issue.
• Got Remarkable Paper Pro Move; designed InDesign templates for daily logging and habit tracking. Perhaps a good companion for my Unbound System.
• Developed an advanced file-based note-taking system integrating Claude Code, Obsidian, and my Synapse/Soma MCP CLI tool.
• Added an AI Transparency and Usage page documenting the AI tools used across ttvl.co.
• Implemented text-fragments support on ttvl.co.
• Practiced color darkroom techniques, focusing on color balance calibration.
• Completed another handbound book at Marumizu-gumi.

I’m back in Tokyo, returning to the routine of my studio: mixing chemicals for film and paper, making color prints, sequencing the project I’m working on now.

The Soma and Synapse application suite has morphed into a genuinely helpful software bridge between my notes, Obsidian, and Claude Code. I find this combination, set up in a particular way, extremely helpful for logging and retrieving information from my notes. It’s significantly more powerful than the memory features that most AI chatbots utilize.

I’m really enjoying the process of building this digital note-taking companion to Unbound, even though I haven’t settled on a formal system yet. There’s a lot of interesting work ahead. I’m thinking about documenting the evolution of this setup here on the site—sharing how it gradually takes shape, step by step. If that sounds interesting, let me know; I’d love to hear if you’d want to follow along.