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Vintage Digital is a one woman business in Derbyshire with over 30 years’ experience in website creation, business mentoring and consultancy. I believe that it’s never too late to make your dreams real, and that technology, used well, can help you achieve your goals.
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Why I'm Unapologetic About Using AI

This morning was the perfect storm of ideas and magic moments. It started with a tweet about AI, spotted as I doom scrolled while drinking my morning coffee. ““Everybody's an artist now. Everybody's an author now." Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO” I contemplated these words later as I stood in the chicken run gazing upwards as a flock of honking geese flew overhead. Later, Dickie Bush got me thinking about regrets and how we need to have too few to mention. I use AI every day. I love it! Working with AI has enabled me to be more productive while keeping...
July 26th, 2025 AI

A Dream Tool: Lightpage Living Notebook

I came across a new app recently. Via Rob Hardy. I casually clicked on a link in one of his posts and discovered  Lightpage. Described as a living notebook, I was intrigued. Anything related to your pursuit of living belongs in Lightpage. My AI Toolkit I use a few AI tools - Voicenotes, Kortex, ChatGPT and Chat in Twos. They all fulfil different purposes. Voicenotes: for recordings at the farm, some of which are published, random recollections, meeting notes. Kortex: this is my new digital garden, all my writing lives in Kortex as well as related resources and references. ChatGPT:...
June 15th, 2025 AI

Take Note - Your Writing Will Thank You

I had no idea what I was doing when I started using Obsidian. I’d seen Ali Abdaal talk about Roam Research, a tool that had transformed how he organised his life. It led me to the concept of a Second Brain. The opinion on Roam Research was divided, and it was expensive, so I searched for alternatives and came up with Obsidian. I began to create my own Digital Garden which I put online using Obsidian Publish. Inspired by people like Nicole van der Hoeven, I noted furiously, often up in the middle of the night when an idea took...
April 24th, 2025 writing

AI is very Marmite Right Now

I’ve always been a bit of a geek. Going back around 30 years, almost the start of the public internet, I thought all my Christmases had been rolled into one when I first got online. Very soon, I had my own blog, was coding websites in HTML, and beginning my quest for the perfect domain name. I’ve always been an early adopter. Most of my career was built around eCommerce and digital projects. There were always personal side projects - more websites, podcasts, video interviews, eBooks. And more domain names! Then, in 2021, I discovered digital gardens, Second Brain, PKM...
March 24th, 2025 AI