iOS – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Very Simple Meditation Time for the Apple Watch

2024-04-13

Shout out to «Monk Mode», a simple but highly useful meditation timer.
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Deleting iOS Apps

2024-03-08

Apparently you have to allow the deletion of apps.
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Leather Bed Tablet Holder

2023-05-13

Having a bed that is at an angle might be good for reflux, but annoying if the tablet slips down when reading. A simple piece of leather to the rescue.
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Sewing Tablet Cases

2023-05-04

Disliking attached covers and seeing the options, yeah, just easier to sew a tablet case yourself.
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Making Obsidian Useful

2023-02-05

Playing around with Obsidian for about three months, these are a few of the ways of making it useful. Overall, very impressed by the note-taking/knowledge management software.
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Obsidian

2023-02-05

I have tried lots of different note-taking/knowledge management apps, and so far, Obsidian is probably the best. (Oh god, I hope they do not fold like Circus Ponies Notebook.) It is also gaining an impressive amount of steam. A short overview.
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Supporting Users’ Mental Models of What happens with their Devices and Why

2022-12-15

Given the complexity of devices, a future events view would be interesting.
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Using an Encrypted USB-Stick on an iPad or iPhone

2022-09-14

It's not that widely advertised by Apple, but you can use USB-Sticks with iPhones and iPads, and even use encrypted ones.
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Attention Economy (presentation in German about Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie)

2022-08-08

Just a just-for-fun presentation about attention economy (using, among others, Newport, 2019's Digital Minimalism).
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Solitude

2022-08-05

Newport (2019) has a beautiful take on solitude.
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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.