Diary Posts
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Mind Maps, Podcasts, and a Pocket Brain
Lately I’ve been testing a simple idea: can AI turn Obsidian into a genuinely useful second brain for me? The answer was a complicated but resounding “Yes”. My first step was to find an experienced Obsidian user whose ideas resonated with mine. This turned out to be a YouTuber called Callum (aka Wanderloots). Callum’s channel…
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The art of goal-directed context management
with acknowledgement to Erling S. Andersen, whose book Goal Directed Project Management inspired me in 1988 Transparency label: human only How do we control an AI? To use an AI effectively, we have to configure it’s behaviour to suit the purpose of our work. We do this by giving it information in the form of…
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ChatGPT-5 Availability and Features
Ray passed on this useful summary of the new features in ChatGPT-5 and their availability to the various tiers of user.
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Creating a video from reference documents
Transparency label: this post is Human-only; the video is AI-only In an earlier post, I explained how I used NotebookLM to update our Contextual Scaffolding Framework to allow for new capabilities in ChatGPT-5. In that same session, I accidentally clicked on the “Video overview” function, and this is what NotebookLM produced. I did not give…
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GPT-5, the Router, and the Road to a SuperApp
Transparency label: AI-only OpenAI’s latest release, GPT-5, isn’t just about new features or smarter answers, it’s a strategic move to turn ChatGPT’s 700 million free users into a sustainable business. The real engine behind this shift is the new “router” system, which decides in real time which AI model to use for each request. SemiAnalysis…
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Conceptual Scaffolding Framework updated for ChatGPT-5
I put our Contextual Scaffolding Framework and OpenAI’s GPT-5 Prompting Cookbook into NotebookLM and asked it “What aspects of the gpt-5 prompting cookbook are most important to know in order to apply the contextual scaffolding framework most effectively?” It gave me a sensible set of prompting strategies, so I told it to integrate them into…
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An ethos of caring
transparency label: human only On 7 August 2025, Anapoly ran a trial acclimatisation lab. One of the participants was a member of staff from Marjon University. He liked our approach to the use of AI and, in later discussion, suggested the possibility of a collaboration with the university. After exploring some of the options for…
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ChatGPT 5 …
transparency label: human-only … was released today. I have been using it to help with my writing. It is very good – markedly better than earlier versions – yet not as reliable as 4o. Commentators put this down to problems wth autoswitching, and teething problems with rolling this out at scale. Autoswitching in ChatGPT 5…
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First acclimatisation lab
Transparency label: Human-only We ran our first acclimatisation lab yesterday, a trial session with two external participants. There were aspects which can be improved, but overall the feedback was very positive. This was the session plan.