Working with Abby and Russell. Talking about the concept of a platform (adilas) and then supporting and building a floating city on top of that platform (system or application). Russell did a couple of drawings and Abby took some screenshots. The underlying pieces that connect everything are through the platform and/or API socket level connections. We then flipped back into working on JavaScript and CSS for the documentation project. We are trying to detail out the search options. We got the search fixed up. Much better now. Other small changes. Some manual and some AI augmented changes. Good work session. As a side note, Russell and I are helping to train Abby, as much as we can, while working on this project. Lots of little teaching opportunities while debugging, testing, or experimenting.

Meeting with Abby. Going over the master plan and the AI level (level 6). See attached for tons of new screenshots dealing with the concept of the adilas value add-on core model. Working through some ideas.

Working with Shannon. Going over things, things are constantly moving and shifting. Part of the game. Reviewing the end of last week. Going over phone call with Josh, new stuff from Abby, and the limited SWOT analysis document. We then spent the rest of the time working on the help file for the interactive map.

Phone call with Bryan. He is meeting with people and wants to see what it would take to put together a plan for a super simple version of adilas. Almost like a mini white label version where it could be super simple and beginner friendly. I was telling him that we may want to start with the bigger or high-level settings and templates. I see this step as quick group settings applied as a group or in bulk, thus the templates and settings idea. It could also be filtered down into permissions and what shows up, based off of those high-level settings (system wide). Great ideas. we are going to meet tomorrow to see what that might look like and do some planning.

I then got a text from Abby and jumped on the phone with her for a bit. She had a couple of questions. We ended up on the phone for almost half an hour. She is having fun with some of the graphics and concepts for adilas. We talked about funding and how she may have to put some hours on the side right now due to budget constraints. She is good with that, for now. We chatted about some other things, and she has a good attitude and good vision. I love it.

Recording notes from the past few days (4/8/26 to 4/11/26). Adding new files and graphics to the element of time # 12793 in the shop. This was from a meeting with Abby, earlier this week.

Going over the simple stuff from Abby. She took some of the AI chats and pulled out little pieces. We then spent the rest of the time talking about the sixth layer of the value add-on core model. We ended up starting a new ChatGPT chat session. Shannon and I only got part way. I then ran with it later in the day for a number of other hours. Here is the link to that chat session.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69d87170-9440-832d-b17f-987bf78d69ad

As I got new stuff back from ChatGPT, I was adding it to the value add-on core plan. The new stuff is at the bottom or on the layer six section.

Here is a little snippet:

The sixth layer of the value add-on core is the AI level (artificial intelligence). While the earlier layers focus on structure, data, workflows, and scalability, this layer focuses on interaction, intelligence, and automation.

You could say that AI is both a layer and a cross-layer capability. Instead of thinking of AI as a separate layer, consider it an integral part that enhances all other layers. AI builds value by using the system's existing data, structure, and workflows to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive outcomes.

It represents a shift:

• from clicks and navigation to conversations
• from steps and tasks to outcomes
• from manual work and processes to assisted execution and automation
• In a nutshell, good data --> solid structure --> action and intelligence --> outcomes and results

"Instead of focusing on how to use the system, users can focus on what they want to accomplish."

Working with Russell and Abby. Back working on the search look-up for the documentation project stuff. We were deep in indexes and counts to show the correct search results and setup the deep linking correctly (page and subpage navigation). We got stuck on some JavaScript and looping over sections and showing/displaying the correct search results. Manual changes and checking console logs for index numbers and flow. Deep JavaScript debugging. As we are going along, there is some teaching happening and helping Abby understand why we are doing what we are doing.

Working with Abby. She is working on some new graphics for the GPS core and adilas value add-on core models. See attached for a few of the new images. She also gave me a number of super cool simplified docs (mini versions from my prior ChatGPT sessions). I've been going so fast, I haven't taken time to harvest anything. She totally inspired me to slow down and harvest some of what we are learning. Great and easy to read stuff. Along with those documents, she also said that she had some mini screenshots from other chat sessions that she thought were cool. She sent me 36 mini screenshots of key pieces in the chat sessions. That was awesome. I'm so glad that someone is reading them and also gathering up little tidbits of goodness. I love it.

See attached for some of the little gems and documents.

Working with Russell and Abby on the documentation project. Talking about traffic control and helping to regulate flow and usage - the job of developers. Making small changes with AI for small tasks in our project. Some good, some bad. Russell keeps using multiple AIs to improve the prompts for the other AI agent. We got to a point that we decided to manually change some of the code. It took a while to find out what it, the AI, had written. We only got as far as flagging some places to check for next time. We did force some values and got it to work, we just need to be able to either pass those dynamic values or have it recalculate them on the fly. We are dealing with search results and correctly showing and highlighting the correct search results within a page or sub section. The code deals with deep linking, highlighting search text, navigation, and setting the correct search index counters to the correct values (result 1 of 5 or 2 of 10 - etc.). Interesting, we weren't making as quick of progress today. There was a little bit of spinning our wheels - going back and forth with AI. We are in pretty deep.

Working with Abby on graphics. Also, spent some time and showed her around in the adilas financials and space (navigating the system). She is working on a new compass graphic - of where you want to go... We talked about adding in some fun business functions and application players (almost like virtual destinations - map and compass - choose your own adventure).

Working with Russell and Abby. Planning and checking existing code on a small project that we are working on together. Slowing moving the ball forward. It takes time. Trying to have it, AI help us, do some code syntax highlighting. It wasn't able to do that. We rolled back the code. We then tried to have it do a text search function on sub HTML pages. That worked pretty good. Working on project prompts, and how to refine and use those. We were working with Russell as he would do a new prompt and then switch between the different AI applications. Talking about assigning tasks and starting a conversation with other developers. The task is not the end all, all it does is start the deeper conversation of what is needed, wanted, required, expected, etc. Working on the search function. Doing some detail work. Good work session. Abby and I are learning tons by working with and watching Russell.

Working with Abby. We were talking about working with a huge library (all of the adilas assets) and trying to get it all organized. We spent most of the session doing some training. I was showing her graphics and images and doing some drawing to help illustrate what is going on and where things are heading. I really enjoy that.

Working with Abby and Russell on the web documentation project. We were doing some code tasks and modifying logos for the new web layout. We were having it (Claude AI) add in some new CSS variables to help with primary colors and highlighting to help tie-in light modes and dark modes better. We added a copy code button to the code block section. This allows us to show something like some text or a code snippet, and then have a quick copy button to help a user copy the content. All of those changes went pretty well. We then tried to get it to help with adding in color coding (syntax highlighting) for the code blocks. It really struggled on that. We just rolled it back and will keep going next week. Fun to see both the successes and the failures. It does take time, but it can also save time, when it works. Fun exercises.

Training session with Abby. We were going over a number of the recent chat sessions with ChatGPT. She has been reading them to get ideas for graphics. I was drawing all over the screen, explaining things and how they work together. Spent some time working on the adilas formula and then into flex grid tie-ins and how everything works. I bounced into a few sites to show her how things play through in real life vs just talking theory. Good session.

Adilas Key Contributors:

Steve Berkenkotter - Main owner and business partner - original ideas, concepts, and training - sales, relationships, dreamer, visionary, custom code, coordinator, builder of the first industry specific skin, and the list goes on. Huge player in the adilas story and timeline. One of the original owners in Moring Star Automotive - where the system came from. There are three known Steve's in the system notes. Most of them are this Steve (99 out of 100 times). He won't admit it, but adilas was his brainchild.

David Berkenkotter - Steve's brother and business partner in Morning Star Automotive. David was a system user and helped us create the adilas quick search. He liked using that feature, the quick search, but it only existed on one page originally. He wanted us to put it on every page. That ended up being in the header. He was also one of the original partners in adilas. Power user in the system. Sadly, he passed away due to cancer.

Shari Olin - Commonly known as "Shari O.". She worked in the accounting department back in the Morning Star days. She has been somewhat of a mother hen to help all of us crazy chickens keep going. She helps with customer support, training, payroll, bill collection, and tons of backend office functions. Major power user. Just being silly, but she can have the mouth of a sailor but the heart of an angel. Part of the adilas admin team and a great friend.

Craig Leitner - Also part of the original Morning Star team. Craig was the automotive floorplan and bank guy. He is a power user in the system and does a lot of bank reconciliation and other tasks. He currently works with Steve and asks as the adilas controller (money flow guy).

Cory Warden - Originally an adilas rep and consultant. Cory become part of the team after being a rep for quite some time. She helps with customer care, client support, project management, and keeping the team on track. She also does all of the news and updates and other training material. Cory does tons of oversight type services for our clients. Power user and part of the admin team.

Sean Carlton - Sean was a manager at a Cannabis dispensary in Colorado that used adilas for years and years until they sold. Steve recruited Sean to help with sales, deployment, and training. Sean brings lots of usage experience. Often, he is one of the helpers if we need to send someone onsite to help with a deployment or training session. Power user.

Brandon Moore - I'm one of the guys that writes most of the developer's notebook entries. Originally, I was hired by Morning Star, the automotive dealership, to help with data entry, accounting, and website stuff. I ended up being one of the main adilas developers and architects. I build content, write code, help other developers and team members, and help with training. Helped start the project back in 2001 under the Morning Star name.

Chris Dunsey - One of the first adilas interns (developers). Helped with a number of projects. Ended up being somewhat of a consultant later on.

Shawn Curtis - Kinda a funny story. He was taking a developer's class at Bridgerland. He knew my brother Russell. He asked to join our developer class and became one of the first interns along with Chris Dunsey. Shawn ended up helping with payroll and other projects. Some of the photo galleries in the system came from Shawn's help. He also worked on the media/content (file upload) pieces. Later on, he did more payroll work and acted as a buddy to Brandon and did some consulting work. We worked together for years and years.

Russell Moore - Russell is my younger brother. Originally, he was added to the group because of his graphic skills. He ended up being a great backend developer and project manager. He has also acted as a trainer and mentor for Brandon along the way. Much of the current system came from projects and efforts that Russell was involved with. He has also been Brandon's AI tutor in recent years. Great help to the system. Huge contribution.

Chris Johnnie - He is an entrepreneur who teamed up with Russell to help create a company called "Adilas For Business" or "AFB". Eventually, both Russell and Chris sold their pieces back to adilas. They were honestly the first ones to really try to run as a white label of adilas. This was back in 2015 and 2016. Chris really helped to push the product to the next level along with Russell's help.

Danny Shuford - Longtime friend of Steve's. Danny helped with some website design, sales, and videos for adilas. He even got into creating custom PDF labels for clients. Light development work.

Marisa Shaw - She is Danny's daughter. Danny brought her to an adilas training event in Denver, CO. Marisa was the star student. She ended up helping with some graphics, flyers, marketing material, teaching, instruction, and planning. Power user. Very helpful.

Shannon Scoffield - Shannon is Brandon and Russell's sister. Her maiden name is Shannon Moore. Huge help and virtual assistant to Brandon. She has helped with training, project management, and content creation. Most of the major content sessions were or have been with Brandon and Shannon working together. When they, Brandon and Shannon, were traveling, Shannon was one of the primary adilas instructors. If she was teaching Brandon was taking notes. If Brandon was teaching, Shannon was taking notes. Power user.

Cheryl Moore - Cheryl is my mom. What an asset. She owns a small business and has owed a few different ones. When we were doing training sessions, she came to every one of them. She asked wonderful questions and was a great supporter. Sometime, I would use her as a test subject - can my mom do this? If yes, we are good. If not, we may need to keep tweaking it. Thanks mom!

Wayne Moore - Wayne is my dad. He was my hiking buddy and more than willing to talk about ideas and concepts on our walks and hikes. He helped out with video stuff and was a great coordinator for making other connections. He worked at Bridgerland (technical college) and helped us get setup with classrooms, computer labs, and other great connections. Huge cheerleader! There is another Wayne, Wayne Andersen, he is a backend developer, systems guy, and database guy.

Wayne Andersen - This Wayne lives in Portugal and helps with all of the backend security, server, and code testing. Major skills, writes code, helps push all of us to new technologies, partially retired but loves to play with tech stuff. If you search for Wayne and it deals with concepts and coordination stuff, that's my dad, Wayne Moore. If you search for Wayne and it sounds like a master backend guy, that's Wayne Andersen.

Alan Williams - One of the lead developer's at adilas.biz. Alan joined us in 2015 and quickly came up through the ranks. Trainer, CTO, team lead, master developer, prototyper, and system architect. Alan has helped with many projects and features over the years. He also helped Brandon with some of the prep work for the adilas lite (fracture) plans and project. Sometimes called "Dr. Alan" by the other developers. Example: This might be a project for Dr. Alan.

Bryan Dayton - Bryan has been one of the most versatile guys on our team. Originally, he joined a development class out of curiosity. He and Brandon live in the same town and know each other from church. Bryan has done more custom code or small system projects than almost any other developer. He also joined the team in 2015. He helps with sales, custom projects, pushing on projects that he thinks will yield a return. Lots of work on the adilas lite and fracture project. Very hard working and versatile.

Dustin Siegel - Developer who helped with numerous cannabis and cultivation type projects. He worked directly under Steve to help with that business vertical. Many of the original pages that Steve built were taken over and remade by Dustin.

Eric Tauer - Developer and custom code guy. Originally, Eric knew Steve and lived in Salida, CO. As a note, adilas is Salida spelled backwards. Eric has a background in database work and data warehousing. Eric has done tons of custom systems for clients. Often, Eric would pioneer certain features or logic, as custom code, and then we would bring those features into the main adilas application.

Garrett Kirschbaum - Adilas intern and then full developer back in 2015. Stressful time of building and expansion. He and others helped run the adilas shop with Brandon's help. Garrett was a great developer and helped us standardize a number of tools and features. He was the first developer to work on sub inventory, back in the day. He also did other projects and helped with some developer management stuff.

Charles or "Chuck" Swann - Charles was an instructor at Bridgerland for web development. He builds custom websites, does amazing mock-ups, prototypes, and is a CSS master (styling a website using code). Chuck worked with Russell to help with redesign work, projects, and vision. Chuck worked fulltime for a number of years and now works and coordinates work done by a small hand-picked design and development team. Anything that needs some design loving gets passed over the Chuck and his small team.

Steve McNew - Friend of Steve Berkenkotter's. This Steve helped prep some whitepaper documents to help with getting adilas standardized and some internal audit type stuff. Mostly white papers and putting things down on paper. He ended up getting hired by the local school district and wasn't able to finish the process, but he got it started. He asked some great questions, and we had some good conversations.

Abby Elkins - Abby is Brandon's daughter. Her maiden name was Abby Moore. Abby, when she was little (10-12 years old) helped with some of the original concept artwork for adilas. Later on, she helped with content for the presentation gallery and then the adilas lite plans (fracture). Currently, she is working graphic artwork for different adilas pages. She's now in her mid 20's and has some awesome art and content skills.

Aspen Moore - Aspen is Abby's younger sister and Brandon's daughter. Aspen helped Brandon with some planning and counseling (mental help). Aspen also did some general business consulting with her dad Brandon.

John Maestas - Developer, backend server guys, and designer. John came to us through Dustin. John was uses as a jack of all trades on the backend and frontend. He did numerous projects, documentation, payroll, and page redesign projects. John was also very help to Brandon in working on the notes and comments on the SWOT analysis document. Many other projects as well. Good vision of the future.

Kiva Berkenkotter - Steve's wife. She helped Steve with various projects and planning sessions. At one point, she was in charge of paying commissions and collecting monthly reoccurring payments. Huge supporter to Steve!

Heather Moore - Heather is Brandon's wife. What a trooper. Cheerleader, support, ideas, and consulting. Huge asset to Brandon (me). Thanks Heather!

Jonathan Wells - Designer and mock-up guy. He helped to map out the system and created a number of deep mock-ups for adilas lite (fracture) projects. Great job catching the vision and putting those pieces into a visual representation. We still refer to his work when talking about fracture (future project for adilas).

Jonathan Johnson - Business consultant from Epic Enterprises. Met with Brandon and Steve in end of 2019 into 2020. Really helped us see some needs and opportunities. Later, helped Brandon with some other consulting when trying to define the fracture plan.

Calvin Chipman - Windows software developer. Calvin also did a bunch of web-based work, database stuff, label printing, and API socket stuff. Calvin was the first developer to use the adilas API's to create a native mobile app for a client. He also built a number of special developer tools used by some of our team to speed things up. He's the tool guy!

Cody Apedaile - Bryan Dayton's cousin, Cody helped with a bunch of JavaScript code and changes. He also spent some time working on the UML diagram for the adilas database. We didn't get things finished, but he was working on a new build your own interface (custom to you) for adilas. We ran out of funding. We want to get back to that project at some point.

Dave Forbis - Dave was the official "high tech gofer". He did a bunch of things. Graphics, project management, brainstorming, planning, sales, and helped with managing developers for the adilas shop. He was another great student. He came to a number of training courses and brought so much to the courses. He was also a big support to Brandon during some rough times.

Josh - There are three Josh's. Josh Wheeler, Brandon's friend and developer. Josh Sagert, developer and adilas user (worked tons on the discount engine), and Josh White, Steve's friend from California. Josh White has brought us a number of bigger leads and bigger players, like franchises, and other higher-end clients. Anything recent is Josh White, from California. He helps with networking, sales, and dreaming of new things.

Suzi Distelberg - Sales, training, and deployment. She also worked with some custom projects and doing step-by-step user guides. She has helped with all kinds of projects and even gone onsite for setups and training. Great asset!

Kelly Whyman - Kelly is Dustin's wife. Kelly was single handedly the best independent sales rep that adilas had. She did training, consulting, and sponsored a number of custom projects. Kelly helped Steve and Brandon with reports, functionality, and other things. She got so good at things, state contracts snagged her up to work at state and multi-state level stuff.

Molly Hennessy - Molly was another independent sales rep and consultant. She had numerous clients and got into doing SOP's (standard operating procedures) and other high-end documentation and training. Molly was an entrepreneur and even started creating some of her own product and services. If you search adilas on google, some of the other results are from Molly. Super creative and a great consultant.

Hamid Karbasi - Developer - He has worked with Brandon doing small websites, training, and small tasks. He currently is a manager at a retail store and brings some managerial type skills to the table. Willing to talk about concepts and how they apply to retail and other environments. He is also lightly helping with some planning for fracture.

Gene Spaulding - Friend, entrepreneur, and businessman. Gene is an old college friend. We had a number of friends in common. He has been a small mentor to me over the years. Way back, before adilas, he helped me get my first business loan for a project that I was working on.

Sharik Peck - Friend, entrepreneur, public speaker, physical therapist, and businessman. Good influence and mentor in ways. Sharik and I used to exercise together back in the day. Many of fun walk, run, and weightlifting session. Learning some conference and training skills from him and his wife. They have done really well pushing their product lines and doing some marketing. Trying to get some ideas.

Bridgerland Technical College - Use to be Bridgerland Applied Technology College. Not a person, but a huge help. This is a local technical college in the Logan, UT, area. Brandon's dad, Wayne, worked there. Tons of assets. They provided classrooms, training options, computers, and even an small incubation spot (starter office space) for the adilas shop during the startup phase. Huge asset!

McCorvey's Pro Shop - Also known as Bowling World. Client that had multiple locations. The started out with around 30 and grew up to the 90+ location level, all using adilas. Long time client.

Emerald Fields - They were the first client that wanted their own fully dedicated box and server. They had multiple locations and requested some custom code, reports, and features.

Beaver Mountain Ski School - Client that we helped them track their ski school (snow sport) lessons. Students, instructors, classes, and schedules. Custom interface dealing with elements of time and flex grid.

Bear 100 - This was the first event or annual event client that we did. They used the system for about a week each year. They had 350+ runners and their families that would be on the site for multiple days straight. It was a 100 mile running race with 13 aid stations and a small social portal for the family and friends to watch their runners. This one was special as it had custom input options to upload CSV files to populate the database vs normal HTML form field entries. Records were sent in batches from remote places to adilas for storage and race progress.

High Valley Bike Shuttle - Online ecommerce and scheduling client. They also have a cafe and small retail store. Fun online scheduling and bulk flex grid projects.

Herbo - Mike Roundtree, owner of Herbo, was the first company to do a small white label of adilas. Mike has been a great asset to Steve and the two of them have worked on projects, plans, and dreams. Herbo also has a custom payment solution that they are trying to market and get rolling. Mike has been a great supporter for years. He is also a certified CPA and that credential helps us and him. We would like to get other CPA's on board as well. Thanks Mike!

Nxtlinq AI - AI assistant. These guys really pushed us to get an AI agent inside of adilas. Tons of development took place and lots of prep stuff. We wanted to do a 3-part plan for integrating AI. 1. Teach it how to navigate using the AI quick search (check - done), 2. Teach it all things adilas. and 3. Teach it how to be clear up at the consultant type level. We only got the first phase done. Lots of other plans and such, but we ran out of funding.

Grok AI - Steve loves using Grok. He has built a number of image generation options inside of adilas. He is also working with Grok to feed it data to help with analytics and AI insight. This is not finished yet, but we may end up using Grok as an AI assistant inside of adilas. We have simple and emerging connections available right now but need to really polish things up before going live with the AI assistant options.

ChatGPT AI - We have started using ChatGPT to help with code, explanations, explore resources, planning, and help with training and flow for people and other AI bots. Currently, Brandon, Steve, Bryan, Alan, Josh, Russell, Chuck, and Wayne are using AI in either ChatGPT chat sessions or some other form of AI. We have some using Copilot, Gemini, Claude, etc. AI is actually helping in many ways. ChatGPT is a big one for use. Anyways, they are earning their place in the adilas key contributors list.

There are so many more that I can't list. Developers, users, power users, reps, consultants, trainers, clients, accountants, friends, family, and even critics. They have all helped out the idea farming process and progression. Good stuff! We couldn't have done this alone. It takes a community to do what we are doing.

Emails and recording notes from 3/12/26 to 3/13/26.

Going through tons of emails and doing some follow-ups. I had sent an email to Abby, my daughter about the SWOT analysis that I was working on with ChatGPT. She sent me back an email with a couple of small highlights pulled out. Here is part of her response.

Adilas is really super cool and people just have to be able to see how much it's capable of! I think paired with Adi as the AI agent for navigation and all the plans for the future, Adilas is going amazing places. It's fun to see the ten year possible plan, and I learned a lot from reading this. I like how it says, "Adilas is a customizable engine for running and adapting business operations." and "Adilas turns operational data into actionable business intelligence." I also loved that it says, "Because Adilas captures operational and financial transactions across many areas of business activity, it naturally creates a rich dataset that can support analytics and decision-making." The final documents the AI came up with are stellar. Pretty cool! I agree that creating Adilas is much more of engineering a system than just writing software. I also appreciate that it was able to simplify the time line so much to just 2001 — Custom operations system, 2003–2005 — Operational workflow tools, 2006 — Core Adilas concepts formed, 2008 — Adilas LLC created, 2010–2024 — Platform expansion across industries, and Future — Next-generation platform architecture (Fracture).

If the original document or chat session is needed, here is the link for that. As a note, it is kinda long, but some good stuff there. https://chatgpt.com/share/69a9d788-a288-8007-949a-58d1ed5ccde2

Recording notes and pushing up some images from Abby.

Back cleaning up developer's notebook entries. Pushing up some images for Abby. See the jellyfish model page for new images. Then back to saving back-ups and cleaning up older entries (changing some formatting and removing long links).

Working with Russell and Abby. We jumped in and were talking about a small mock-up that Russell is working on for a budgeting app. The first part of the meeting was a mini layout critique of sorts. Here are some of my notes.

- Talking about AI, what it can and can't do,  and getting some good ideas. Often, it helps creating a good starting place or places for your project. Depending on the detail level, it may do the first part or the whole thing.

- Talking about context windows (what it can take in and apply to the current project) and how to keep things consistent along the same lines.

- Russell was showing us some character animations and what they are doing to help AI keep things straight. Realistic references - consistency - character drift - you need a reference from almost every angle. Also mixing both text (prompts) and images, keeping it consistent.

- Russell was asking Abby about basic flow, just based off of what was being presented in the visual. What is next and where can I go? What should I do? Getting input and feedback. Basically, user feedback tests or UX tests.

- We talked about tours and walk throughs. Sometimes helpful and sometimes not. Ways to help the user get oriented.

- As we were talking, Russell was gleaning information from the us (his fake users). You have to record that feedback and those ideas. No way that just one person could think up everything.

- Being intentional in your decisions.

- Talking to people about your product, using mock-ups (visuals and flows), vs just building it. Good design and planning go a long way. That is huge.

- Making decisions based off of user input.

- The interfaces changes and only tells you what it has to (just in time interface changes - single page apps - SPA's).

- Taking the time, up front, to get the design, flow, and training nailed down.

- You can make things that look good, but eventually, you also need to be able to code it and/or get help coding it.

- Narrowing it (the scope or project) down to the specific needs and requirements of that project.

- Getting a valid sign-off based off of mock-ups and design flow. Russell was saying that if you increase your skills to do quick mock-ups, that helps solve things before you ever go to code. Helping people walk through it. Letting them taste the vision or selling the sizzle. Everybody gives their opinion, signs offs, and everybody is sold on it, even before it really exits. Talking about emotions in marketing.

Switched gears and started working on the content management system that we are working on. Talking about helping others and spreading the love. Helping to teach others, use that as a learning and a growing philosophy.

https://github.com/RussellMoore1987/code-doc - This is the GitHub repo for the content management and documentation template that we are working on. It will end up being the underpinnings of the presentation gallery. That, the gallery, will be the top few layers (visual fluff and key bullet points) and then we will use this content and documentation template as the meat and potatoes for the real screenshots, videos, text, and other content. I'm excited about it. The project will be big, but I also feel like it will help tremendously.

Working with Abby on graphics. See attached for some of her progress.

Recording notes for the day. Pushing up some new graphics and concept artwork from Abby.

Working with Abby to get her new graphics up and online for real. See the jellyfish model page in the adilas lite (fracture) plan to see some of the new graphics.

 Meeting with Russell and Abby. Russell is working on building a web app. He was showing us a small demo of his camera photo picture to budgeting app. They are still working on it (he and Chuck). We got off into some general world topics. As an ideal, the world would be awesome if we all just helped each other. That would take quite a bit to get there. Talking about some general sharing and community type concepts.

Switched over to working on the deeper documentation options for the presentation gallery. This will end up being the backend behind the presentation gallery. Imagine the meat and potatoes with tons of documentation, screenshots, step-by-steps, and small context related videos. It should be super cool. Anyways, we started with a small review. We were going over moving from the initial plan, to AI prompts, to AI code building, to small manual changes, to GitHub storage, to making updates and having them be tracked in GitHub. It takes quite a bit. Watching his screen and going back and forth through iterations. We liked certain changes and we didn't like other ones. A little bit of picking and choosing. Watching a series of manual tests (at this level, based on the AI changes). We were getting into deep linking and URL routing for pages and sub sections. When it is all done, it should be really cool!

Working with Abby on her graphics. I took a number of screenshots. See attached. We also started to add in images to the actual page where they will go. We ran out of time and finished that up after our other meeting with Russell.

Working with Shannon. We looked around at what is happening and then jumped into some of the stuff. Lots of moving pieces, all over. I explained what I did with Abby yesterday and we looked at some graphics. We then jumped in and talked about what we did with Russell and how we used AI to help build out a basic teaching and documentation project. Supper cool. I didn't have anything really to show, so I drew what it did. I will get files from Russell later on.

We talked about what else we have in front of us, project wise, and where we need to focus. We then spent the rest of the session going over pricing stuff with ChatGPT. Super fun session and we really tried to give it some good information and ideas. Here is what we came up with.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69a0a070-3778-8007-a998-ebf29c864809 - ChatGPT chat link on adilas pricing structure (prices).

Sending Wayne some information on adilas percentages. Emails and follow-ups. Recording notes from the day. Also pushed up a number of images from Abby that I got in an earlier meeting.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. Going over plans. Russell was leading us through a small exercise to mix AI, screen capture, HTML web page creation, mock-ups, etc. Fun exercise. Plans and hitting the heaviest things first. Taking the time to play and setup the capture process. Watching him experiment and play before he committed to anything. Looking into scribe.com and possible time saving things that we could do. We also looked at TechSmith Snagit. Both have AI step capture options.

Doing some drawing and mock-ups before really building. Making templates and standards first. We were then watching Russell work with ChatGPT to help him build out some simple starting things. AI seems to be great from scratch..., sometimes struggles on larger projects. He had GitHub Copilot make the new pages. We watched and it was honestly pretty amazing. It seems to do awesome from scratch, based on a really good prompt. It seems to struggle when there are big projects with micro tweaks. Hard to keep track of the overall rules and context.

Just for fun. This is from Russell - this was his original prompt... ChatGPT then helped him tune it up. We then used GitHub Copilot and Claude to actually build the mini starter app. https://chatgpt.com/share/699f87bd-def8-8011-b518-ad0eac223d04

Working with Abby on her graphics projects. I took a bunch of screenshots. See attached. Great little session.

Working with Russell and Abby. Full work session and critique. I was drawing and they were making suggestions. That was not the original plan but I showed them some progress that I was making for my son's headstone. They kept telling me ideas and such to help make it better. It ended up being super fun. Good work session. We then reviewed some of the changes that we made and decisions why we made them. Really good hands-on session. See attached for what we were working on. We did more than just this, but it was very interactive and lots of leaning and feedback.

Good meeting with Abby. We spent the whole time going over some of the graphics that she is working on. See attached to see some of the mock-ups and progression of the art and graphics.

Working with Abby. Small overview of where we are going. After we chatted about a bunch of topics, we did some work on her graphics. See attached for the concept artwork mock-ups. Also, here are some of my other notes:

- Talking about creating vision videos to create the steam (stone soup) or the draw (invitation what draws people in).

- Being interested in people and their stories. Bringing people together. Abby was talking about these people who have been walking from state to state and bringing people together (passive awareness).

- Actions of a small group of people that affect the bigger populous... becoming a cause - what moves me? People will work for money, people, and a cause.

- Bringing things together in the same spot.

- Rule of attraction. Magnetism for something. Picturing things in your head and then bringing those things together.

- Thinking beyond adilas - like life and the universe.

- Abby, thinking outside of the box (a life analogy). Challenging business minded persons and their boxes and/or origination. People like to organize things. It is okay to be different, and some people will resonate (agree/echo) with that.

- Puzzle type analogy - the individual pieces vs the whole. Fitting together, interlock, connect vs just sitting side by side (drawing boxes just next to each other - no real connection vs connected pieces - interlocking and complimentary).

Meeting with Russell and Abby. We started out and spent most of the time working on some webpage layouts and mock-ups. Working on some of our graphic skills. Russell was showing us how Grok was able to take a simple static image and create a motion animation or small movie from the single graphic. You could prompt it or just let it do its own interpretation. Kinda interesting.

After the main practice session, Abby was showing me some of her progress on some of the graphics that she is working on. Fun stuff. We are starting to break out of the box, literally, in her designs. She is making great progress. We will be meeting tomorrow again, as we ran out of time.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. Lightly going over some existing graphics and flyers. I was showing them where we are heading (mixing some of the old adilas flyers as part of a 3-way pitch). We then turned into practice mode. We picked a website and then started to do a mock-up on that website. Working on layout and design stuff. Talking about what we like and how to start using the mock-up. Russell was grabbing images from online, cleaning them up, and then having ChatGPT to make things similar. Most of the session was a practice session. It was fun.

Recording notes from 1/20/26 to 1/24/26. Also added some graphics to the EOT # 12624. Some new concept artwork from Abby Elkins (my daughter - used to be Abby Moore).

Working with Russell and Abby on mock-ups and layouts. Russell gave us an assignment and then we spent the rest of the period working on the design. Working on mock-ups. See attached.

After Russell left, I worked with Abby and doing some critiques on some images that she is working on. See attached for some of the current concept artwork.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. Russell is using notion (online software solution) to push up some portfolio pieces. He was talking about using their existing tools and just a free hosting spot to show his work. He was saying that you are basically selling your work in a way that they, your clients, feel confident that anything that you do will work and be awesome! These are some lines from a video he was showing us, from some guy on YouTube. I didn't get the name. People do not read. Write with your heart and edit with your brain. Anyways, some key phrases from a YouTube video.

We then switched over to update some CSS for the adilas form fields. This was huge. I asked Russell about it, and I was going to go in and practice. He built the original snow owl them for adilas (based on the project CSS theme). Instead of just doing some small in-line changes, he pointed me to the main or master CSS file. We spent the rest of the session working on the CSS. It was more than I could have done on my own. He was a huge help. That was awesome. We didn't launch it, but we got it pretty close. I still have to browse a ton of pages and make sure that we didn't screw up anything. These were global CSS changes.

Meeting with Abby and doing some graphic editing. She is doing well and working on some new graphics. She was getting stuck on certain layouts, ideas, and options. She is doing great. You can tell that she is new at it, but doing exceptionally well. Fun session. We went over a bunch of things. Even Heather jumped on with us and gave her some feedback on her graphics.

Emails, paying bills, reviewing notes from over the weekend. Planning for a meeting with Steve. Reread some great poems that have a great message. Click this link to see the poems (on a different entry from a couple of years ago). Pushing up videos to a new folder inside of google drive.

Translating from post-it notes on 1/11/26

- Sunday morning - I was shaving, getting ready for church. I had a flood of ideas come into my head.

- We go for it on 4th down (football analogy)

- Reinforce the team - goal 1

- Goal 2 - We make sure that keeps working (meaning goal 1)

- Morning meeting at 9:30 am (get some communication stuff going on)

- Let people (our team) run... minimal on the micromanagement

- We focus on people... there will always be more projects and features

- CSS on forms for classic looking forms in the snow owl theme

- Look and feel to snow owl - help fix internal and existing pages look good

- Training - could be internal training, AI training, or external training

- Presentation Gallery - Keep pushing on that project

- Images for the adilas lite plan and the investment opportunities

- Abby - Talk to Steve about getting her involved

- Work with the design team - Chuck, Piper, Sarah

- Move key videos to Google Drive vs on the content server. It just can't serve them up quick enough.

- On the AI Agent - Use what we have - Set it up so that it tells people "I'm good at nav" - Polish the 350 existing prompts and tools.

- Suzi - Step-by-steps - small documents with information and instructions. She is really good at that.

- Sean and Cory - General Training

- Prepare for 100+ new accounts - What would that take?

- Open things up!!!

- If needed, we have others who can help - Dustin, Eric, and John. There are others as well.

- Shannon - She has been such a great helper to me

- Let Alan lead out - Help him succeed. He can do so much more than code.

- Get out of the way

- Leverage debt - put all of the adilas shop or adilas lite stuff into adilas as real payables - bring it out of hiding - true costs and costing

- Co-owner Advocate - possible new title, if needed

- Mini bank accounts for each person and/or department - help the team feel safe, supported, and funded

- Be in someone's corner - believe in them

- Overcoming fear - Satan wants us to run and hide

- Simple 1-pagers (one-pagers) - at a glance

Abby came up from Ogden, and we spent the afternoon working on graphics. We did some small critique stuff and talked about what we like and how that could play out. She has been doing a bunch of training and practice files. She has a couple of new graphics started. They still need a little refinement, but making progress. I have a need for graphics in the adilas lite website and fracture plan, the investor opportunities, and the adilas presentation gallery (graphics for the modals and more information sections). 

I had to help with a school Christmas party for my daughter. Russell and Abby started at 2 pm. I jumped on at 3:15 pm.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. They were going over some options for app and web desktop layouts. Russell was teaching Abby and doing some training on design and layout options. Here are some other notes that I took, once I joined:

- The more people that you talk to, the more feedback you can get. That really helps.

- Having a reason behind what you do and why you do it.

- A good system or interface system that teaches the user about itself and how to use it.

We kept going over some layout options, for almost the whole time. We jumped into Adobe XD and showed Abby what some advanced layouts look like and such. We showed her some things from Jonathan Wells. We also showed her some historical stuff from both Russell and I over the years. You could see the progression. That was kinda fun.

Russell had to jump off around 4:30 pm. Abby and I met for another hour going over her stuff and direction for the future. We looked at a few more samples and she showed me a flyer that she was working on. She is still in training mode. We then talked about some plans and where we want her to focus. She will be building out some of the graphics for the adilas lite project, starting as of January 1st of 2026. That will be one of her first main assignments and projects. Nothing like jumping into the deep end... :)

Meeting with Russell and Abby. We started out and Abby did a show and tell on both vectors and photo editing (some of the things she is working on). Then Russell was showing her some cool links and some samples. Here are some notes from Russell:

- Keep practicing and challenge yourself.

- Take your challenge and then look-up how to fix it and how to improve.

- Russell was showing us how he gets inspired and how he goes in and grabs pictures, graphics, websites, animations, and then makes all kinds of collections and such.

- Fighting towards the goal.

- Helping people see your best work - when they see it, they say - okay, you're hired.

- Go find inspiration, energy, and emotions and then build or create it.

- Selling people off of the sizzle.

- Taking something that you like and molding it into something else.

- Keep getting better at things. Build lots of things.

- Inspiration helps you go beyond your own boundaries.

- Talking about styles and being consistent.

- There was some great advice for Abby and myself. Keep going... you are smashing it.

- Transitioning from design work into code work. Good path and good stuff.

On the GoToMeeting session with Abby. We were working on graphics and doing some practice. We started out doing some vector graphic stuff and then moved over to photo editing and making combination images or composite images from multiple sources. Little bit of mixing and blending. After Abby jumped off, I merged in some code for Bryan. Small bug fix.

Touching base with Abby. She has been working on some vector art training and is doing great. We jumped in and looked around on her practice project and talked about a bunch of things. That was fun. She is catching on very well. We also talked about other training in the photo editing and desktop publishing side of graphics and digital art. We then got into a number of other topics and talking about optimizing images, image sizes, dpi, resolution, and other semi technical pieces. Towards the end, we were even talking about saving your practice documents. We revisited some original ideas on the adilas logo and where that inspiration came from. See element of time # 4144 in the shop for some graphics of where the adilas logo ideas came from.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. Reviewing some graphic lessons and drawing with the pen tool. That one takes some practice. They were helping me with a small project with some suggestions. We then did some more advanced work with gradients and blending shapes. Fun training session. Russell also helped me get signed up for a copilot (AI) code helper.

Emails and installing some new software. Then working with Russell and Abby for a couple of hours. Working and practicing on doing vector graphics and working in Affinity Studio. Lots of pen tool work. After Russell left, Abby and I kept going and doing some one-on-one training. After that, Abby showed me some stuff that she is working on her own. She is working on some graphic ideas to show the different versions of adilas and how things rolled out. That should be pretty cool. We then jumped into some photo editing skills and such. Abby is still in the learning phase but picking things up quickly. I sent her home with one of the adilas laptops until she gets her new laptop. That way she could practice using the actual tools vs simple drawing tools that she had. Lots of work with Affinity Studio today. Fun little product.

Recording some notes from yesterday. Meeting with Russell and Abby over a Zoom meeting. Small lesson on drawing vector graphics and playing along together. Russell was leading out. Abby didn't have the right program, so we did some screen sharing to let her get some practice. Great little training session.

Recording notes from yesterday. Small to do list items. Transitioning between projects. Pointing Abby in a good direction on her text editing and graphic stuff.

Working with Russell. Abby was over at my house. We flipped from coding to graphics. Small art lesson to help Abby with some graphic ideas and such. Russell was working with some drawing tools and showing Abby some different techniques. Duper fun lesson. Ee then played with some older adilas interfaces and talked about what that would take to remake those using newer tech and newer tools.

Small note from Russell - You have to know how to break it down... If you don't know, you can't build it. We were looking at things and talking about how you would approach them, if they were a real project. You almost have to see the smaller pieces so that you can get into those harder projects. Once you know the pieces, you can then start building them up and mixing them together. Fun stuff!

Working with Abby (my daughter). Going over some ideas for projects. She is going to do some graphics for some of our projects. She is hoping to do 15-25 hours a week. I will pay her for now until it gets approved from adilas. We went over what she had done, the last time that she worked with us. She is excited and has some direction. We'll see where it goes. I'm excited to see what she comes up with. She is very creative. We spent some time going over timelines and versions of adilas. Abby is going to make up some graphics to help show some of those things and how the development story unfolded. Should be fun.

Working with Shannon. Looking around a bit on some of the existing pieces that we have pushed out recently (AI quick search stuff). Small tour and update for Shannon. That was fun. Looking at potential and current paradigm shifts (our way of thinking). We looked at some plans that we are making and also spent some time looking at some graphics (prep stuff and planning). We know that we will have some needs for more content (writing things up) and graphic design work coming up soon. Looking to see what we can have Abby (my daughter) do to help us out. She would like to start working with Shannon and I next week.

Switched over to planning and writing out content for adilas lite and fracture page (plans). We were on the customize everything section. As we were talking, we got into a conversation about the adilas transactional core and the strong foundation of permissions, settings, and templates (grouping things together for storage, speed, consistency, and organization). We haven't talked too much about templates yet. Templates help you group, organize, and setup a pattern of sorts - make it quick and repeatable. We talked about industry specific skins, bulk settings based on functionality, and other templates that exist right now. Technically, even the organization of the adilas database is a template of sorts (what goes where and how do things work together). We got into talking about organization within pages, dynamic content, what is static, what is dynamic, and what is alterable by a user, based on permissions and settings. We talked about different levels within the settings and how to group things together. We see at least four levels in the settings at this point. They are corporation level (world level), group level (main players), page level, and user level. Fun conversation.

Playing with Affinity Designer (graphics program). Added a number of new images that I got from Abby up to the teaching photo gallery page. See attached for some of the new images.

Meeting with Abby. She had a number of new information modal popups with some content and verbiage. We worked on the core concepts section and the vision and future page and the systems page.

Touching base with Abby. She has been sick. We will meet up again on Thursday. Pretty quick meeting today.

Jumped over to more work on the Bear 100 mile race and the new import and export formats that are needed for the 2024 race. The race is this coming weekend. Pushed up a new scratch file and sent out a few emails to key data team players.

Work session with Abby and Shannon. We worked on two pages in the presentation gallery this morning. We worked on some sub pop-ups (modals) for the maintenance page and some new information on the vision and future page. Our plans are to circle back around and fill in more plans for the vision and future stuff. That will be fun. Anyways, that's where we are headed.

Working with Shannon. Showing her the new deli style barcode stuff. Small demo. Talking about debt and plans. That lead to a discussion on a number of topics. Here are some random notes... (not all tied together but what we were talking about):

- What if we set limits on how much we do for a new client. We can still invest in them but there are limits. Finding a good middle ground. We get in trouble with "it should" (expectations). We can't really fully stop this - meaning investing in our clients.

- Coding actually takes a lot of both time and money. Awareness is a great place to start.

- It might be hard for the builders to be the sellers (all we see is what needs to be done - meaning the developers). Possible disconnects.

- Still do what we do but put some boundaries on it. Say, spend $10K and show them what we are doing for that vs just an open ticket.

- Setting up checkpoints... to help us and the clients to move along. Healthier steps vs just plunging in.

- We have done a great job with what we have to work with.

- We were talking about different personalities and roles.

- Some transitions are coming. Along those lines, transitions take time.

- Our guys have been very willing to try to play into different roles (code vs sales).

- Sometimes there are painful talks and meetings.

- Some of our solutions come from our experiences... that is both good and bad.

- Our greatest weaknesses are overused strengths. There is more overlap in our strengths and weaknesses than we know. Sometimes we get so good at things we don't mix and blend, we just push on what we are good at. Flipsides - gains and losses. Patterns and phases.

- We totally switched gears and talked about plugging money into people vs code or sales. We've tried those other things before. Just a thought, maybe focus on people and key positions (stable pieces or needed pieces of the puzzle).

- Back to limits and checkpoints - communication and expectations and requirements.

- Talking about the working genius and how each of us plays into that mix.

- Hiring to our needs vs forcing in people who are already on the team.

- In some ways, okay, a lot of ways, we like the random... Random vs super strict order and organization. We need someone or something that will allow for some randomness and still provide structure. Setting up light boundaries. We have created some awesome things from the chaos... We can also see that full chaos will drive people insane.

- This is a question - Are we helpable? - Are we doing things a different way (like a welfare situation - helping people and they just go back to what they were doing). We don't want someone to come in and put us in a straitjacket... What can we do to help ourselves to create new mixed processes. We might need to find good matches (personalities and traits and skills and costs).

- If we invested in people, we would have to help them define their roles and help them in their pieces and processes. It could help us develop our underlying structure. That would be awesome!

Working with Shannon and Abby on the presentation gallery. Shannon had a few new definitions and Abby showed us a graphic that she is working on for the 12 main player groups. Pretty short meeting today. We will hit it again next Tuesday. Shannon is getting close to having her baby (any time).

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Touching base. Abby had some new popup modal descriptions for the core concept on the maintenance page. We did those new descriptions and then jumped off to work independently. After that, I did some emails and small to do list stuff.

Meeting with Abby and Shannon. Talking about removing friction out of processes and sub processes. Constant work of refinement. We were commenting on how we are trending and creating new settings so that people can configure their own tools that they use. They are not required, but if used, they may be customized. I gave them a small demo on the deli style barcodes and how that works.

We then switched over and started doing a small work session on verbiage and new icons for the business functions in the presentation gallery.

Meeting with Shannon. Abby joined us part way through. We were talking about risks and costs and how they correlate and run together. I can't tell you how many times we see repeating patterns. What do you do about that? Great question. We were talking about personalities and strengths and weaknesses. Question - what you value? What you end up getting out of a relationship and/or a business is somewhat of a reflection of you and what and who you are. I really enjoy some of our talks. It's therapeutic for me and hopefully for the girls as well.

Setting up a new schedule for some meeting times. We are going to be changing it up a bit in September. We got into a small work session. Shannon has some new text and verbiage for new modal messages and Abby had a bunch of new icons to add to the pages. Pushed up the new changes.

Meeting with Shannon. Talking about personalities and styles and some of the variables that go along with that. People can be very interesting and yet also challenging at times. After the meeting with Shannon, we decided to break off and work on our own. I jumped into emails and recording notes. Quick phone call with Sean to explain the new functionality on auto open next sub settings for sub inventory.

Quick meeting with Shannon and Abby. We talked about where we are heading and decided to break off and do some work on our own. I mentioned to them about the need for the presentation gallery, if we ended up having a bigger team. Our goal would be to share the core concepts and the vision of where we are heading. We also spent a little bit of time going over the four phases of team building and how each new team goes through these phases. They are: forming, storming, norming, and performing.

Meeting with Abby and Shannon. Went over some client meetings (from the past couple of days) and what is being requested and learned. Good review. Just being silly, our clients are almost saying "I want the Death Star for 100/month" (Star Wars reference).  We then rolled into a good work session on the presentation gallery pages, verbiage, and bullet points.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Checking in and making some plans. We are all going to do our own thing today and then meet up again on Thursday for a work session. Shannon is working on verbiage for modal popups. Abby is going over some graphic tutorials and I'm splitting up a huge 50 page document into smaller pieces. I also downloaded the Affinity Designer tool and did a little bit of playing with it. Ended up playing with the graphics tool for the rest of the time.

Working with Shannon. Going over new developments and some reminders. When we talk with other people, it sometimes drives home some of the concepts that we are trying to catch and use in our development and marketing. That is exciting to see validation and people asking for the same things that we are working on. Shannon sent me a 4-page document and then she bailed out to work on the other business functions that still needed some help. Just for fun, check the media/content for Shannon's new 5-page document with the other 3 business functions finished. See attached.

I added in a new graphic that Abby made dealing with how adilas bridges the gap between operations and accounting (see attached). I then switched over to working on the slides for the 12 business functions in the presentation gallery. With the information that I got from Shannon, I started doing some coding for the other 9 out of 12 that have content. Only got through two of them (sales & inventory and CRM - customer relationship management). I'll push them up as a group, when I get the other ones done. Otherwise, it will look a little weird or different (layouts and style).

Quick meeting with Shannon and Abby. We decided to just do a work session today. We split up and each worked on different projects. I added a new image of different worlds to the photo gallery page. Abby made the new graphic and it has some fun colors. Ended up spending an hour or so working on the photo and teaching gallery. Replaced a few images and took some new screenshots. See attached.

Meeting with Shannon. Going over some of the latest happenings. Doing some catching up and deciding that today would be a good work session day (individually). We jumped off the meeting to keep working on our sub projects. Shannon is working on the business functions section of the presentation gallery (new bullet points). She is basing her efforts off of a 50-page document that we did awhile back - presentation gallery - outline.

Recording notes from yesterday (7/15/24).

Got a call from Abby and we jumped on the GoToMeeting session. Working with Abby to show her some concepts of object carrying their own luggage (their own data, relationships, sub details, and history). Lots of drawings and demos. She showed me a new graphic that she was working on of some worlds and such.

Work session with Shannon and Abby. I showed them the new touchscreen quantity modifier piece (new code for the mini scan cart). We worked on the attributes section inside the presentation gallery. Shannon bailed out and just Abby and I finished out the session. We added worked on the data over time page - new icons and sub text.

At the end, we, Abby and I, stopped our timecards and spent some time talking about life and the journey that we are all on. We talked about being in the present and finding success along the journey. We talked about dreams and ways that we either want to help others or ways that we are being helped. Fun stuff. See attached for a cute Family Circus about gaining small victories. Good stuff.

Working with Abby. We did some new icons and altered sub navigation and modals on 25 different pages inside the presentation gallery. We took all of the sub text in the application players pages and turned it into modals. That really helped clean things up a bit.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Made a number of changes on the presentation gallery - working on the core concepts. We also modified the main sub menu for navigation within the presentation. Left off copying and pasting sub menus.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. We did some new icons, new sub text, and some new bullet points on the presentation gallery pages. We worked on the following pages in the core concepts: systems, vision & future, maintenance, and data over time.

Meeting with Shannon. Going over current projects and challenges (helping people, maintenance, security, etc.). Easy to see solutions, tricky to solve... tons of requests, minimal time, lots of needs, helping with training and planning. Overcoming barriers and implementing solutions really takes a lot of time and effort. Shannon and I worked on the permissions and settings page in the presentation gallery today.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Going over what it takes to code things... small overview (5 languages - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe ColdFusion, and SQL for database interactions). Shannon bailed out to do some work on her own. Abby and I spent the rest of the time doing sub text and new icons in the presentation gallery. We made changes on 10 different pages in the presentation gallery. Pushed up files.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. We did some work on the icons on some pages. Working on goals, cause and effects, and accountability pages. These are all pages on the presentation gallery.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. We spent the first hour or so going over where we are at and how we got there. It's helping the girls get some perspective on the timelines and history of what has already gone on and where we want to go. We talked about rejecting certain business principles and how those actions trickle down and affects the team. We also talked about seeing patterns and how to achieve an MVP (minimal viable product, plan, or person).

We then jumped into a work session and spent the rest of the time working on the presentation gallery. We worked on the relationships page and challenges (trouble or problems) page. We also did some icon work.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Catching up and showing each other what we are working on. Abby was showing us some of her graphic ideas and sketches. She is hoping to use images to really show how each thing (concept) relates to real life. She had a number of images to show us. I'd like to get copies of them from her. She is catching the vision.

Shannon is working on summing things up (summaries) and working on flow and flavor for the presentation gallery. We then jumped into a small work session and fixed a couple of pages based off of Shannon's notes. We were working on core concepts and did some work on characters and relationships pages.

Working with Shannon and Abby. Review of where everybody is at on their individual projects. Setting up new meeting times for June. Started working on the presentation gallery. It turned into some training on some of the core concepts. We did push up a bunch of new files and changes (click to view).

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Talking about alignment and how much that helps the whole process go smoother. Work session on the presentation gallery. We added a new graphic of Adi (the dog) daydreaming about world building. We started into the record your story page in the core concepts. We were prepping things and plan on making small little modal popups for each section. When it's done, it should look really good. That's the plan.

Working with Abby and Shannon. Abby was showing us some progress on her adilas history document. Small demo on what we are doing (new changes to the system). Light graphic demo and talking about graphic programs, tools, work flow, and layers. We did a small training session. After that, we did some more work on the presentation gallery - core concepts homepage. Lots of graphic type training today. Fun!

See attached for some of Shannon's notes.

Working with Shannon and Abby. Reworking the presentation gallery based off of some of our notes. Small work session. I got some good feedback and we were able to work on page layouts. Both Abby and Shannon were helping me and providing opinions as we made changes. It was fun. See attached for some small screenshots.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Small demo of where are at with the new cart stuff. We even logged in and looked around Suzi's demo site (super cool with all of the buttons). Good stuff. After that, Shannon was presenting on some of her research. We made some plans for next week. Next, Abby was showing us some of her progress on a history of adilas document. We talked about desktop publishing, typography, and making things consistent across a document or a project. I gave her an assignment to checkout some topics and then do a new version. The text is fine, the graphics and feel just need a little bit of help.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. Showed them where we are at and making more plans. Next week we will do the full meeting with Shannon going first and then Abby after that. Both are going to keep harvesting resources and helping to get them organized. I did a bunch of drawings and explained some of what we are doing and planning. They both seemed really excited.

Back on the mini scan cart customer search for an hour. Finished up things and did some testing.

Quick meeting with Bryan. Showed him where we are at on my stuff. Talked about next steps. We will meet up tomorrow morning and work together. I have an assignment to look up how to sort arrays and output the arrays.

Looking over Abby's history doc. Got a call from Eric and helping him merge in a code branch. Making plans with Abby to harvest some older resources (old site and photo gallery).

Merged new code branch into master for the mini customer search changes.

Working with Shannon and Abby. Little bit of show and tell (new cart customer search and changes to the presentation gallery). Shannon showed us her progress on the core concepts - mapping things out and making notes on changes that are needed on the existing gallery pages. Abby then showed us her progress on the history of adilas document. We then broke to work on our own projects. See attached for Shannon's notes.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. We started out and let Abby show us where she was working. We got both of them lined out on tasks and then bailed out of the meeting. I was doing some drawings and feeling very pulled to help with different projects, maintenance, and planning. We need to learn to divide and conquer. As we were talking, Shannon helped remind me of the value of the core concepts. They are technically worth more than the code is. See Shannon's attached notes for what she was working on.

Working with Abby to show her how to clock in/out and track hours in the shop. Sent her home with a number of documents and some things to work on.

Meeting with Shannon and Abby. We did a light demo for Abby and also decided to work more on the presentation gallery and work on the pitch deck. Small intro to adilas for Abby. After that, we switched over to having Shannon read some old history docs (adilas_history_bio.pdf). We don't want to overload them... (our audience). We will hide things, organize things, and leave little treasure troves for our viewers and audience. Both Abby and Shannon were taking notes on different things that were helping them as we went over the notes. Shannon's notes are attached. See attached for progress on core concepts.

Getting organized. Texts with chuck on scheduling. Prep work and planning for working with my daughter Abby. Figuring out a number of things that need to be done. Getting a list together.

Meeting with Shannon. She took a bunch of notes about what we were talking about today. See attached. We started talking about my daughter Abby and what she could bring to the mix. We then talked about Russell and some of the fun things that he brought to the mix (inside adilas, look and feel, ecommerce, AFB, photo galleries, other projects). He has been a great asset. We spent a lot of time talking about being our own style. That's really important. That's who we are.

We then spent a ton of time looking around the presentation gallery and expanding things. We'd like to build that out and let it go deeper, if someone wants to go deeper. Keep it really simple on the top level and then they can go deeper if wanted or needed. We may have to get access from Chuck to work on the presentation gallery. He built the WordPress site. We would love to add photos, videos, modals, and other things to that site. It could be really cool.