Tools – Page 19 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Downloading YouTube Videos (August 2021 Update)

2021-08-03

Hmmm, I thought the YouTube Download Site y2mate.com was broken (got an out of business message), so I look for a working way to download YouTube Videos. Seems it works, but given that I found another way, here it is.
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Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Let’s avoid digital stupidity

2021-04-24

Digital devices can help us immensely, but they shouldn't replace our intelligence and skills.
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Fuck Motivation, make behavior easier

2021-04-24

An observation about students designing apps — they seem to be preoccupied with motivation, instead of making things easier.
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Apple is not your friend

2021-04-24

I like Apple, but I don't trust it. Some of the behavior of the iOS serves Apple much more than their users.

Image: Meme.
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When it comes to outliners (and other tools), be tool agnostic

2021-04-24

Tools are great, but do not tie yourself to a specific tool.
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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23

It's impressive what you can do with the right tools, well, with R. ;-)
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Recommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

2021-01-31

Something that many computer science students lack — command of the basic tools. This MIT course teaches the basics.
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Downloading Coursera Materials

2021-01-31

If you like to watch videos offline and don't want to download each course video manually, this process might work.
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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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.