Other Tools – Page 8 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Getting the Right Design before Getting the Design Right

2020-07-03

As far as I can see, people are much too quick to trying to improve their design idea. It's often much better to first make sure you have the right design, before worrying to get the design right (kudos to Greenberg, Carpendale, Marquardt & Buxton, 2012, for this one).
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Don’t use shitty tools.

2020-02-20

Ever. Not even just this once, because you can't find your high-quality tools.
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Wall Board (to get an overview of/plan projects and tasks)

2019-08-25

Currently trying out a wall board to get an overview of/to plan projects and task.
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Kanboard and DEVONthink

2019-03-16

Yep, that's DEVONthink. One of the few apps that continues to surprise me ... positively. Today: How nice it is to have DEVONthink working together with a (seemingly) equally nice Kanban App.
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Great Introduction to R (esp when you come from SPSS or the like)

2019-02-05

The audio is terrible but Hadley Wickham's presentation gives a very good introduction into R — and why it's better than using a GUI based software like SPSS or Excel.
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Mixed Media

2019-01-17

You can easily combine a projector and a blackboard.
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Introduction to R presentation (German)

2018-11-09

Just a short posting about a presentation I did on Friday, 9th of November, 2018.
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Semi-intelligent Cookbooks with Numbers and Keynote

2018-09-18

Using Numbers (for ingredient calculation) and Keynote (for book creation) work really well for creating semi-intelligent cookbooks.
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The Gwen Novak Method of «Work eMail Interruption Free» Vacation

2018-08-23

I think I might have adapted an old door-bell strategy to sift out unwarranted eMail interruptions during vacations.
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R Stats results with a bit more annotation

2018-06-13

R is still really, really cool. Esp. if you start to write functions for yourself and create your own package. The amount of annotation you can provide is cool and makes you wonder — why doesn't statistic software usually provide this?
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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.