program – Page 4 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Automating Cutting Parts of Videos for Transcription

2023-12-06

Using ffmpeg and a table with file/timecodes to cut selection from larger files for quicker transcription with Whisper Transcription
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Automating Video to mp3 Conversion

2023-12-06

Using R and ffmpeg to quickly transfer video files into mp3s.
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Giving Feedback to Student Texts with R and Obsidian Templates

2023-12-04

Might be an overkill, but makes giving feedback to student writing a bit less sucky.
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Automatically Transcribing Audio to Text on Your Computer with Whisper Transcription

2023-12-04

Extremely impressive app that turns audio/video/whatever-files-with-audio into text transcripts.
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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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Update and Shedding Skin

2023-02-05

Last posting has been a while, a short update and the need to shed some skin.

Image: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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Solitude

2022-08-05

Newport (2019) has a beautiful take on solitude.
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Was Excel once a creative product?

2022-08-05

Stumbled upon an old Excel advertisement — interesting.
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Things vs OmniFocus

2022-07-26

I switched from OmniFocus to Things. Seems to work out ... better.
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Developers Asking for an App Review – Two Methods

2022-07-26

There are at least two ways you can ask users of an app for reviews. One might lead to more reviews, but not the ones you like.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

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.