iPhone – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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Remote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx Meetings

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

One of the nice results of all this video conferencing — you find out how to do remote usability testing on mobiles.
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OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning

2020-07-03 | Reading time: 6 minutes

OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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Apple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension Program

2020-02-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Even if your warranty is expired, for some problems Apple offers an extended program that covers your — otherwise expensive — Apple product repair.
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DEVONthink and iOS Disk Space

2019-09-13 | Reading time: 2 minutes

The iOS version of DEVONthink (2.7.2) changed how it handles preview images — resulting in massive amounts of space being used for ... preview images.
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A shout-out to a great App: Post-it(R) Plus

2019-02-05 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Companies who are famous for their paper products can go digital. A very good example is this app, which allows you to use the best of both worlds: Start with paper (Post-it(R)s) and continue digitally. Cool.
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Papers in Night Mode

2018-09-26 | Reading time: 1 minute

Reading papers with Papers in the dark — a bit better with night mode.
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Semi-intelligent Cookbooks with Numbers and Keynote

2018-09-18 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Using Numbers (for ingredient calculation) and Keynote (for book creation) work really well for creating semi-intelligent cookbooks.
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iPad Coloring Book

2018-08-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Just an idea to color digitally on an iPad Pro — by using image transparency.
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What makes a good outliner?

2018-02-15 | Reading time: 6 minutes

Some comments on programming a good outliner app. For the first, basic version, that is.
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