sketching – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Getting the Right Design before Getting the Design Right

2020-07-03

As far as I can see, people are much too quick to trying to improve their design idea. It's often much better to first make sure you have the right design, before worrying to get the design right (kudos to Greenberg, Carpendale, Marquardt & Buxton, 2012, for this one).
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Digital Bullet Journal (iPad Pro, GoodNotes)

2018-08-10

A possible way to create a digital Bullet Journal — with most of the advantages of analog and digital.
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GoodNotes for iOS allows for good note-taking on an iPad Pro (with an Apple Pencil)

2017-10-13

I was looking for a good notetaking app and, yup, GoodNotes works.
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Looking back at the postings of 2015

2015-12-26

Postings of 2015 ... somewhat sorted for a quick overview/recap.
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Organizing Creativity — A few tips to realize creative projects (presentation/video)

2015-08-22

A presentation that gives a short overview of creativity, organization, and the steps you can do to organize your creativity. Plus some reflections on recording a presentation at home.
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Recommendation: INCIDENTAL COMICS

2013-04-05

Shout-out and huge recommendation to "INCIDENTAL COMICS". Brilliant and heartfelt inspirational comics. Highly, highly recommended.
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Happy Birthday “Organizing Creativity” 2!

2013-03-25

Hey, the second version of my book just had it's first birthday. A look at the download numbers and -- well, here's the one-page version freely available :-)
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Visually developing ideas in Keynote

2013-02-19

A quick and simple way to develop ideas, if you do not have a Whiteboard or are on the move.
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UPAD for iPad — Developing ideas by sketching on the iPad

2013-02-16

A great note-taking app that deserves the name.
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Transform any notepad into a sketching notepad

2012-11-04

You can easily transform any notepad into a sketching notepad with fixed paper. Here's how.
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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.