Mac in General – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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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Things vs OmniFocus

2022-07-26

I switched from OmniFocus to Things. Seems to work out ... better.
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Developers Asking for an App Review – Two Methods

2022-07-26

There are at least two ways you can ask users of an app for reviews. One might lead to more reviews, but not the ones you like.
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Exporting macOS Podcasts

2022-05-07

Apple’s macOS doesn’t make it easy to export podcasts from its app, but there are ways.
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Remembering Anniversaries

2022-05-07

Just a quick macOS/iOS tip.
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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.