Mac in General – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning

2020-07-03 | Reading time: 6 minutes

OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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Apple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension Program

2020-02-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Even if your warranty is expired, for some problems Apple offers an extended program that covers your — otherwise expensive — Apple product repair.
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Keynote Recipe Book Sample Page

2018-12-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A page from my keynote recipe book.
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Semi-intelligent Cookbooks with Numbers and Keynote

2018-09-18 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Using Numbers (for ingredient calculation) and Keynote (for book creation) work really well for creating semi-intelligent cookbooks.
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Mac: Using file icons to facilitate quick access to folders via the Dock

2018-07-11 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just a short tip about changing the design of folders you can drag onto the Mac OS X dock.
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Ah, Backups …

2018-04-22 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Beautiful Sunday when the Macbook does not boot but stops with an error message about a failed update process. Hello safe mode ... and when did I last do a backup?
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Mac: Combining Images to a PDF

2018-03-11 | Reading time: 1 minute

Sometimes a simple thing like combining images to PDF can be a pain in the ass, until you find that the Automator can do it in a second.
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Quickly opening a your idea collection text file on the Mac via Apple Script

2017-11-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

It pays to have a text file on your computer to quickly jot down ideas. If you use Apple Script and Spotlight, you can open it quickly, without taking your hands off the keyboard.
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Hey, DEVONthink To Go is actually quite good now

2017-09-16 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Just a short comment on the mobile version of DEVONthink.
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