Tools – Page 27 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Reading PDFs by Making Margin Notes

2018-01-28

Some people prefer to make notes in the margins of the text. One of the nice things about digital texts is that you can pretty much set the margin for your notes.
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OmniOutliner — Auto-Fill Source Column with Filename (without extension) incl Confirmation Dialog

2017-12-04

Still using OmniOutliner — and given I use it to tag each cell of an outliner with the source information, I still use a script that does the job for me. And it's evolving.
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Making sense of the stuff you have collected during the initial stages of your PhD thesis

2017-12-04

A couple of people I know are currently in a similar stage in their PhD — they have done some studies/development/research, but they don't know what they have or where the trip is going. Some suggestions.
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Quickly opening a your idea collection text file on the Mac via Apple Script

2017-11-25

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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MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß?

2017-11-17

A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.
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Online Presentation [Broken English]: Scientific Writing

2017-10-14

An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this version is in broken English. Probably doing another take with less accent, more clarity.
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Online Presentation [German]: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben

2017-10-14

An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this one is in German.
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GoodNotes for iOS allows for good note-taking on an iPad Pro (with an Apple Pencil)

2017-10-13

I was looking for a good notetaking app and, yup, GoodNotes works.
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iOS 11 Wifi and Bluetooth on-off settings — honi soit qui mal y pense

2017-09-28

iOS 11 has lots of things I like, but it also creepily spies on the user, or rather uses the user to spy.
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Reading digitally with the iPad Pro, the Apple Pencil, GoodReader and the Apple Notes App

2017-09-16

I tried out the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil ... and so far, the experience is really great. Especially for reading and note taking.
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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.