June 2011 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

From DokuWiki to DEVONthink

2011-06-30

How to switch from a DokuWiki to DEVONthink. Done in a couple of minutes and well worth it. At least, if you are the only person who would have used your wiki. Why do it and some tips.
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DEVONthink

2011-06-29

An overview of DEVONthink -- and why it managed to seduce me away from DokuWiki. And what it can do for you.
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Interesting TED Talk about Suicide

2011-06-28

A short but extremely powerful talk about a group that is usually neglected when we think about suicide: The actual survivors.
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Removing Dock Items

2011-06-27

The dock of your notebook is like a tool-belt worn around your hip. Make sure you carry what you need.
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Creating your own Tools

2011-06-26

Improving one's tools can lead to great performance boost and is something you might want to look into.
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What is good advisory of PhD students?

2011-06-23

Great example of a professor who actually cares about advising his students -- and what he does to do a good job.
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“Coordination is about making commitments”

2011-06-22

Great analysis why teamwork fails and what is needed instead.
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Autodesk SketchBook Mobile

2011-06-21

Short review of a brilliant sketching app for iOS.
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Digital Clean-Up — Packaging that Box

2011-06-18

How cleaning digital files can be like cleaning your apartment -- and where "the box" comes into play.
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Literature Management with Papers on Mac

2011-06-17

Papers is a beautiful app and shows great promise for managing literature, but ... well, read on.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Month: June 2011