PUBLIC GARDEN EST. 2026 · ALWAYS GROWING
a public garden grown from a private notebook.
I build things, write about what I notice, and try to live a life worth watching.
This site is the visible surface of a much larger private notebook — only the notes I've decided to grow in public make it here. Wander, click, follow the threads.
garden
all →- AI video editing for short-form Reels — 2026 landscape Submagic + free CapCut is the 2026 short-form stack — ~$19/mo and 10 min per Reel. Caveat: it's transcript-driven, wrong for cinematic content.
- Prompt-driven AI video editing — 2026 state of the art Drop-footage-plus-creative-brief-into-cinematic-edit is the holy grail. As of May 2026, it doesn't ship — Captions AI Edit and Eddie AI come closest.
- Travel series formats that work — short-form 2026 Travel series win on 'Day N of N + a recurring micro-ritual + a duo dynamic.' Vlogs lose because the algorithm doesn't reward freeform.
projects
all →- History — location-keyed life log A location-keyed chronological backlog of everywhere Emre has been — captured at whatever detail level feels right in the moment.
- Portfolio / digital garden The site you're reading. A public projection of a private Obsidian vault — notes flagged publish-true flow here at build time.
- Instagram warmup A 4-week protocol for taking a cold Instagram account to consistent posting in a chosen niche — without algorithmic suppression.