The camera pays the bills, but I build my own tools too. When Lightroom or an off-the-shelf app doesn't do what I need, I make the thing. These three all started as a problem on a real shoot.
01SIDE QUEST · WINDOWS DESKTOP
Kalendar
STATUS: SHIPPED
Windows shows you a calendar when you click the clock, and it tells you nothing. I wanted my actual schedule in the place my eyes already go a hundred times a day, so I built a frosted-glass calendar that slides up from the corner of the taskbar.
KALENDAR, RUNNING — TRAY ICON, PANEL, DAY DETAIL, THEME TOGGLE
Lives beside the clock. Click the tray icon, the panel slides up; click a day, you see what's on it.
Reads Google, Outlook, Yahoo and iCloud calendars.
Ships as a real Windows installer — double-click, next, install, done. No Python to install, nothing else to set up.
Optionally starts with Windows, and uninstalls from Settings like any normal program.
An event shoot is mostly logistics. Who is speaking at 2:40, which room, what still needs covering, and what just happened that nobody wrote down. Shoot Day Companion is the app I wanted in my pocket while my hands were already full of camera.
Call sheet and running order for the day, readable one-handed.
A shot checklist you tick off as coverage lands, so gaps surface while there is still time to fix them.
A live moment logger — tap when something worth finding later happens, and it timestamps against the shoot.
AI shot ideas for when the schedule stalls and you need an angle you haven't already taken twice.
Schedule-photo import: point it at a photo of a printed run sheet and it builds the day from that.
A Live Activity so the next item sits on the lock screen instead of behind an app switch.
iCloud sync, so prep done on the couch is on the phone at the venue.
SWIFT / SWIFTUILIVE ACTIVITYICLOUD SYNCTESTFLIGHT
03SIDE QUEST · LIGHTROOM CLASSIC
Mack Cull
STATUS: IN CALIBRATION
Culling is the least creative part of the job and it eats the most hours. A tournament weekend is thousands of frames, most of them near-duplicates of the frame beside them. Mack Cull is a Lightroom Classic plugin that does the boring first pass so I only make the calls that actually need my eye.
Scores every frame and flags the keepers, so the first pass is a review instead of a slog.
De-dupes burst sequences down to the frame worth keeping.
Spits out a coverage report at the end — what got shot, what didn't, where the thin spots are.
Tuned against my own catalogs and my own hit rate, which is why it is still in calibration rather than shipped.