Tools – Page 42 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

An App for Everything and Everything in its Place

2013-11-01

Using a mobile phone or tablet to carry the equivalent of the contents of the library of Alexandra with you. Recommended apps.
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DEVONthink To Go – Advantages and Risks

2013-10-31

A look at DEVONthink To Go -- very useful to have your data with you, but there are some serious caveats.
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DEVONthink To Go — A Second Look

2013-10-27

Some tips on using DEVONthink To Go. There are some things you should keep in mind. Oh, and the library of Alexandria.
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Luhmann’s Zettelkasten with DEVONthink

2013-09-29

How Luhmann's Zettelkasten can be realized with DEVONthink.
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Scientists and Programming

2013-09-27

An argument for scientists learning to program -- for all sciences, not only for the mere automation. Highly recommended.
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iOS Updates: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours

2013-09-26

A short rant about the abysmal iOS7 release.
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Ask not what the program can do for you, ask for support to a concrete problem

2013-09-26

Your needs should determine which technology to use, not vice versa. A few needful comments, esp. on a site like this.
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Apple’s Vista — “Upgrading” to a previous iOS

2013-09-19

Until Apple did it's iOS 7 update, I did not know what skeunomorphism was. But now I desperately want it back. Yup, a short rant.
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Another one bites the dust — or not

2013-08-31

A scare story from my youth and a tale of a broken hard-disk serve as reminder that even experts must check the basics.
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Downloading Coursera Lectures (or other material)

2013-08-30

You can quickly download all Coursera videos with a simple and free tool. Also works for the lecture material and anything else. Extremely useful app.
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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.