Tools – Page 36 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Interesting (but sadly underdeveloped and underused) Add-On: OpenComment

2014-06-10

Reference to an interesting browser plug-in that lets people comment on webpages independent of the people who control the webserver.
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Mac OS X Automator

2014-06-08

Introduction of a very useful tool to ... well, automate actions on the Mac. You can rename lots of files in seconds, edit them, and much more.
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Hidden Calendars

2014-06-07

If you have calendars for rituals or tasks that are not that important but you want to be reminded of, and they clog up your calendar view, why not hide them?
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Guest Posting on Butler Library Blog

2014-06-05

Francis from Butler Library Blog gave me the opportunity to write a guest posting about writing with content outlines (using Circus Ponies Notebook as outliner). Highly useful for academic writing, but also applicable to other areas. Link in this posting.
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Door Signs

2014-06-05

How to create a rotatable door sign -- great for the office, esp. when you want to write.
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Standing Desk Finished (more or less)

2014-06-02

Instructions on building a reading desk from cheap IKEA components.
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Book Recommendation: BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research

2014-05-29

A very good book (cover left) on possible strategies to improve one's research productivity ... and happiness.
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Custom Moleskine Milk Photobooks

2014-05-27

There's an interesting service offering to create Moleskine books with your own photos on the pages. You don't have to stick to their layout options, however. This posting shows how.
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Circus Ponies Notebook 4

2014-05-26

Review of Circus Ponies Notebook, version 4. tl;dr: For me the best app to keep and sort information, esp. for writing. But there is more ...
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How About an Ice-Cold Drink in the Office, or the Library?

2014-05-25

A cool tip for the summer: Using a thermos flask to have ice cubes available in the office (or the library, if this is the place you work). WARNING: Don't shake the contents too hard and for ... sake, take one with a metal interior!!!!
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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.