Improving your Creativity

Visually developing ideas in Keynote

2013-02-19

A quick and simple way to develop ideas, if you do not have a Whiteboard or are on the move.
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UPAD for iPad — Developing ideas by sketching on the iPad

2013-02-16

A great note-taking app that deserves the name.
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Apple’s Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy

2013-02-13

If you submit an idea to Apple, you can kiss it good-bye. Really. That's how Apple treats your ideas ...
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Keeping Up with Scientific Literature

2013-02-07

You don't have to go looking for journal articles -- just let them come to you. Automatically. Great way to keep an overview of what happens in your field.
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Scientific / Academic Paper Writing Template

2013-02-05

Using a break book by Thomson & Kamler as basis, I created a nice template for planning scientific papers. Three pages of condensed information.
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Improving University Teaching

2013-02-04

Thoughts on good teaching, how to support it, and why it matters.
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AsapSCIENCE: Lucid Dreaming, Productivity and Procrastination

2013-01-23

A shout-out to and recommendation of a brilliant YouTube series about science. Also: Sleep, Productivity and the lack thereof.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Task Management

2012-12-16

A couple of helpful tips for task management -- in Academia and other areas of life.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Time Management

2012-12-12

Three basic tips of time management. And the best graph I ever came up with (so far).
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Zombies, Run! Excellent example of a completely fictional story with real-world consequences

2012-12-07

Who says that games cannot be fit, or that games cannot make people fit. Incredible idea to check out.
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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.