ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 162 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Wiki Landmines with PHP and the DATE function

2009-09-11

Using PHP in a Wiki (e.g., DokuWiki) to display information only on certain dates, e.g., links to review pages only on weekends.
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Ferret (Frame and JavaScript Enhanced Wiki)

2009-09-03

Using Frames and JavaScript can enhance a Wiki tremendously -- prior to these modifications, creating pages was excruciatingly slow, now it is extremely fast and easy-to-do.
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DokuWiki Adjustments

2009-09-03

Some things you can do to make your Wiki (here: DokuWiki, but works with almost any other Wiki) more appealing, easier, quicker and fun-to-use (including ImageMaps, Date-dependent Links, Link-to-edit, Links to specific functions, Header Highlighting, etc.).
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Circus Ponies Notebook and Scrivener for Writing

2009-09-01

Short remark about two of my favorite programs for writing projects -- and how beautifully they work together.
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Circus Ponies Notebook for Academic Writing (e.g., Thesis Writing)

2009-09-01

Describing my academic (reading) work flow and using Circus Ponies Notebook to write articles with the material I have read. Impressive what you can do with cell tagging in an outliner.
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Circus Ponies Notebook: The Best Tool for Structuring Creative Writing Projects (esp. Research Projects)

2009-09-01

Describing the main functions of Circus Ponies Notebook to illustrate its suitability for structuring projects. Esp. for creative work like science or writing (fiction/non-fiction) books it is highly suited.
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Scrivener — A perfect program for dissertation writing

2009-08-26

Describing my favorite writing program -- Scrivener -- and its strengths for writing of longer academic texts. Seriously, there are better solutions for writing than Word (writing does not have to be a pain, and we're long past writing on scrolls!).
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Roleplay yourself with Skill Levels

2009-08-25

Using a role-playing system to get an overview about your strengths, which skills you have, which you want to achieve, and when.
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Mini-Projects-List

2009-08-22

Keeping track of projects by creating a small list of creative activities. Example for DokuWiki, but works everywhere else as well.
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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.