Mac in General – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Mac Widgets – Show or Hide Widgets quickly via a Keyboard Shortcut

2025-04-13

MacOS desktop widgets are quite useful, there might be moments when you want to quickly hide your todo's or appointments. This can be achieved with a small Automator app and Spotlight.
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Using an SD Card Drive of a Notebook as an Escape Pod Backup Drive

2025-02-03

If your notebook has an SD card drive, how about turning it into a separate micro-storage drive?
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Just Press Record and Whisper Transcription for Local Voice Notes Transcriptions

2025-01-04

Using local tools to capture ideas as audio notes and transcribe them.
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Apple OS Sequoia Menu Design Failure

2024-11-18

Just a short comment on really bad menu design.
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Quickly adding the date to a file name on Mac

2024-04-10

Using automator on the Mac to quickly add a date to file names.
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Syncing external Backup Drives

2024-03-22

A fast way to update backups on external drives. Without warranty, of course.
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Keeping Your Head Clear in the Morning

2023-12-03

Simple (but not easy) effective method to keep the head free in the morning.
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Undelete on the Mac

2023-05-31

One way to possibly restore deleted files with a Mac. (No warranty.)
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Since when does macOS search text in images?

2023-04-02

WTF — suddenly Mac OS finds text in images when doing searches? Whenever did that happen. I mean, it's a great feature, but, hey, surprising.
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Recommendation Digital Minimalism (Newport, 2019)

2022-08-05

Recently I went through Newport's «Digital Minimalism» and took some notes.
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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.