ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 184 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

It takes time to make time

2009-12-12

Time management takes time, but it is an investment worth making. Some arguments and tips.
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eMails — The other way to keep a diary

2009-12-12

Remembering the past can be difficult, but you leave tracks. Especially your saved eMail communication with a good friend can be very helpful.
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Year’s End: Time for a Life Newspaper

2009-12-12

Creating a year's end newspaper about the past year can help you remember the past much better than any diary.
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Quick and dirty way to get your references without a reference manager

2009-12-09

If you do not use a reference manager to write you need to put in the bibliography manually. The process here might help you do it much quicker than you normally do it.
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The Learning Game

2009-12-07

A short reflection on why -- and for what -- you should learn. In school and beyond.
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This would not have happened with Pirate Bay

2009-12-06

A short description of the difficulties of using a legally bought software due to the license scheme of Adobe (including the solution).
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The joy of making a collage

2009-12-04

An inspirational video -- not only to enjoy but also to think about doing things with paper.
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Mendeley Research Networks

2009-11-27

Some information about Mendeley -- esp. the social aspects seem very interesting.
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Paper vs. Digital — Why not both?

2009-11-20

Combining paper and digital can give you the best of both worlds. Here: A Moleskine PDA holder.
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Creativity: Beyond Nuclear Steam Engines

2009-10-13

A short reflection arguing that most creative works are not as new as they could be (essentially, a nuclear power plant is just a steam engine with more pep).
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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.