Tools – Page 46 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Where the heck is DEVONthink’s Sorter?

2013-03-15

What to do if the sorter suddenly vanishes and even a restart does not work. This does.
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DEVONthink Workspaces

2013-02-25

You can configure Workspaces in DEVONthink, which is a nice way to have the databases you need instantly available. Great when you frequently change contexts.
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Visually developing ideas in Keynote

2013-02-19

A quick and simple way to develop ideas, if you do not have a Whiteboard or are on the move.
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UPAD for iPad — Developing ideas by sketching on the iPad

2013-02-16

A great note-taking app that deserves the name.
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Writing a Book

2013-02-11

Four misconceptions about writing -- and things to do and use instead. Highly, highly recommended.
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Using TextWrangler’s Grep Function to tidy up GoodReader Notes

2013-01-17

If you export notes/highlighted text with GoodReader, it adds unnecessary information. You can remove this information easily with TextWrangler. Also works for other kinds of slightly variable information that you want to deal with.
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Another year, (an)other project(s)

2013-01-03

A small project to protect the camera in my pocket. Yeah, sewing.
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If Copy & Paste from a PDF file fails …

2012-12-11

And easy trick you can use if you cannot copy and paste from an article, whether it's due to bad OCR or stupid DRM.
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Transform any notepad into a sketching notepad

2012-11-04

You can easily transform any notepad into a sketching notepad with fixed paper. Here's how.
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‘Server not found’ can happen to any site — are you prepared?

2012-09-09

Online information is fleeting. A few ways to deal with it.
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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.