Tools – Page 48 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Tagging in DEVONthink

2012-02-28

How to tag multiple files quickly in DEVONthink. (Update: Read the update on how to do it much quicker.)
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Using Excel for Biographical/Chronological Information

2012-02-24

You can use Excel for creative purposes, even in non-fiction writing. Here's how to use it for biographies.
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How to create a content outline in Circus Ponies Notebook

2012-02-23

Content outlines are incredibly useful for writing, fiction and non-fiction. Here's a short explanation on how to create them.
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Outliner in Scrivener vs Outliner in Circus Ponies Notebook — Structure (Scrivener) vs Content (CPN) Outlines

2012-02-23

Scrivener has an integrated outliner, but this outliner differs strongly from the outlining functions of Circus Ponies Notebook. And while Scrivener is best for writing IMHO, the outliner of CPN brings something to the table that should not be ignored. So let's compare both and look why both work beautifully together to create great texts.
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Scrivener Introduction Video

2012-02-02

If you are not yet convinced to use Scrivener, have a look at this video. It explains it pretty well.
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Sketching at Work

2011-09-09

Sketches can be incredibly useful to communicate -- and you don't have to draw well to do them. Book recommendation and more.
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Preventing Duplicate Input in DEVONthink

2011-09-05

How to prevent duplicate files from making it into your file infrastructure in DEVONthink. Basically it's creating a quarantine zone.
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The simple app at the end of the photography process

2011-08-16

It's incredible what happens when you use a cheap app for high quality photos.
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Typewriter Scrolling in Scrivener

2011-08-11

How to disable the typewriter scrolling in Scrivener -- on the normal view and the fullscreen composition view. No problem, you're welcome.
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GroupZap — Online Shared Whiteboard

2011-08-09

Developing ideas with others, e.g., during a Skype conference, can be difficult. This app allows you to quickly set up a shared 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.